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A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL

Volume 29
CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1937
Number 1

Cover Design Margaret Brundage

Illustrating a scene from "Children of the Bat"

Children of the Bat Seabury Quinn 2

A brilliant exploit of Jules de Grandin in the weird jungles of Yucatan

The Dead Moan Low Paul Ernst 25

A faint, eery cry sounded out as the hypnotists wife was consigned to the flames

The Woman in Room 607 Thorp McClusky 35

A strange, weird tale about a woman who clung too closely to life

City in the Sea Edgar Daniel Kramer 51

Verse

The Thing on the Door-step H. P. Lovecraft 52

A powerful tale, which works up to a tremendous climax of stark horror

Fate Weaves a Web Alfred I. Tooke 70

Destiny wove a net from which there was no escape—an odd and curious story

The Headless Miller of Kobold's Keep G. Garnet 79

An unusual tale, about the degeneration of the Kobolder family through centuries of inbreeding

Omega Howell Calhoun 92

Verse

The Eater of Souls Henry Kuttner 93

A short tale about a strange entity on a distant world

The Disinterment Duane W. Rimel 95

Resurrected from a hideous death in the grave, this man found himself yoked to an even greater horror in life

The House on Fifth Avenue Durbin Lee Horner 103

Who were these grisly guests, who sat around the table like ghastly specters?

Weird Story Reprint:

The Eighth Green Man G. G. Pendarves 109

A story from WEIRD TALES of eight years ago, reprinted by popular request

The Eyrie 122

Our readers exchange opinions





Published monthly by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 2457 East 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 rates: One year in the United States and possessions, Cuba, Mexico, South America, Spain, $2.50; Canada, $2.75; elsewhere, $3.00. English office: Otis A. Kline, c/o John Paradise, 86 Strand, W. C. 2, 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.

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Copyright 1937, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company.


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