Index:Weird Tales Volume 8 Number 2 (1926-08).djvu
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Published monthly by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 408 Holliday Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second-class matter March 20, 1923, at the postoffice 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. The publishers are not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, although every care will be taken of such material while in their possession. English office: G. M. Jeffries Agency, Hopefield House, Hanwell, London, W. 7. 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. FARNSWORTH WRIGHT, Editor. Copyright, 1926, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Contents for August, 1926
Illustrating a scene from "The Woman of the Wood" The Woman of the Wood A. Merritt 149 When the peasants attacked the forest, the forest struck back—a tale of graphic action, strange murders, uncanny mystery The Whistling Monsters B. Wallis 167 Frightful beasts that were neither flesh nor fish, neither bird nor reptile, but combined the hideous qualities of all four The Tsantsa of Professor Von Rothapfel Alanson Skinner 183 This story of shrunken heads was written just a few days before the author's tragic death last summer The Terrible Old Man H. P. Lovecraft 191 The inhabitants of Kingsport heard terrible shrieks coming from the house of the old man one night The Door of Hell Emma-Lindsay Squier 193 The physicist opened a path to the world beyond the grave, and could not close it again The Devil's Pay August W. Derleth 204 Five-minute tale of black magic—the duke paid a heavy price to accomplish the death of his enemy The Monster-God of Mamurth Edmond Hamilton 207 Creeping horror, weird thrills, uncanny shivers, are in this eery tale of the Desert of Igidi Weird Story Reprints No. 14. The Horla Guy de Maupassant 217 After man, the Horla—one of the most famous of weird tales, written by a great French story-teller Starkey Strang Bertrande Harry Snell 232 Verse The Mad Surgeon Wright Field 233 The physician granted five years of robust health to his patient—and then sudden death The Devil's Graveyard G. G. Pendarves 241 Giles the Thruster comes back from the tomb, accompanied by the Four Ancients and Gaffarel the Mighty The Other Vera Willis Knapp Jones 255 Vera found her personality tragically intertwined with that of the wife of Obju, the African chief Fettered (Part 2) Greye La Spina 262 Serial novel of occult evil that drew its chains around four men and women in the North Woods—a tale of midnight horror On Canton Road Samuel M. Sargent, Jr. 280 Verse The Eyrie 281 A chat with the readers
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