Index:Weird Tales Volume 12 Issue 05 (1928-11).djvu
|  VOLUME XII NUMBER 5 Published monthly by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 2457 E. Washington Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second-class matter March 20, 1923, at the post office at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 25 cents. Subscription, $2.50 a year in the United States; $3.00 a year in Canada. English office: Charles Lavell, 13, Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet Street, E. C. 4, London. The publishers are not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, although every care will be taken of such material while in their possession. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright and must not be reproduced either wholly or in part without permission from the publishers. NOTE—All manuscripts and communications should be addressed to the publishers' Chicago office at 450 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Ill, FARNSWORTH WRIGHT, Editor. Copyright, 1928. by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Contents for November, 1928 Cover Design - C. C. Senf Illustrating a scene in "The Mystery in Acatlan" The Eyrie 580 A chat with the readers The Mystery in Acatlan - Rachael Marshall, Maverick Terrell 582 It happened in Acatlan, and the horror of it drove the American to seek forgetfulness in strange drugs The Polar Doom Edmond Hamilton 589 From under the polar ice a horror out of long-dead ages is loosed upon the world to spread terror and destruction The Head From Ecuador - Robert Lee Heiser 608 The sight of that shriveled head and red hair, with the tattoo-marks he knew so well, was too much for Dan Hack Flame of the Ages - Robert Choate Albright 616 Shabad Nagaur, high priest of the Fire Temple of Oudh, let the sacred flame expire on the altar
[CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE] [continued from preceding page] The Cave of Spiders - William R. Hickey 619 Into the wilds of South America went Seton and his wife—and there in a ghastly cave a terrible thing happened Sonnets of the Midnight Hours: 8. The Creatures - Donald Wandrei 624 Verse; decoration by Hugh Rankin The Last Test - Adolphe de Castro 625 A superb novelette, through which, like a cold breeze from the tomb, sweep suggestions of unearthly horror Satan and Lilith - George Sterling 656 Verse The Werewolf's Daughter (Part 2) - H. Warner Munn 657 A three-part serial of the weird adventures that befell the daughter of the Werewolf of Ponkert The Flying Death - B. Wallis 669 A dread monster comes from the sky, and the horror of its coming robs mankind of its age-old sense of security The Tryst in the Tomb - M. J. Cain 685 Sardinossa's bride lay dead in the tomb, while Sardinossa lurked in ambush for the young gallant who came to visit her Folks Used to Believe: The Fairy Court - Alvin F. Harlow 689 One of the strange beliefs of our ancestors The Tenant at Number Seven August W. Derleth 690 The ancient Roman medallion was bought by a strange man who lived at St. John's Wood—a bizarre little ghost-story Weird Story Reprint: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving 693 The story of Ichabod Crane's tragic misadventure with the headless horseman—a favorite tale with our grandparents Haunted - Earl W. Scott 711 Verse
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