ALL STORIES NEW—NO REPRINTS
THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD H. P. Lovecraft 6
(In two parts—part I)
The Finest and Most Thrilling Novel Ever Written by the World’s Acknowledged Master of the Weird Tale.
NOVELETTE
THERE ARE SUCH THINGS Seabury Quinn 96
In the Dark Ages a Girl Wasn’t Above Going to the Devil to Keep Her Lover.
SHORT STORIES
BY WHAT MYSTIC MOORING Frank Owen 41
A Strange Romance—Set Amid the Swirling, Mysterious Fog of a Ghost City in the Orient.
DRIFTING ATOMS Mary Elizabeth Counselman 48
It Doesn't Do to Meddle with Laws Not Meant to Be Changed by Man.
THE PHANTOM PISTOL Carl Jacobi 62
That Pistol Drew Him Like a Powerful Lodestone
THE GHOST OF A CHANCE A. B. Almy 71
A Traveling Salesman Finds Himself High Pressured by a Mummy!
BEAUTY'S BEAST Robert Bloch 79
Snakes . . . Undulating in the Evil Glory of Their Poisonous Beauty.
ALTIMER'S AMULET August W. Derleth 91
There Are Always Curses and Such—One Expects Them But Flow About a Pair of Hands, Chopped Off at the Wrists . . . Running Along on Fingertips?
VERSE
FUTILITY Marvin Miller 78
THE BALLAD OF LALUNE Leslyn MacDonald 119
SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS Irwin J. Weill 60
THE EYRIE and WEIRD TALES CLUB 120
Except for personal experiences the contents of this magazine is fiction. Any use of the name of any living person or reference to actual events is purely coincidental.
Published bi-monthly by Weird Tales, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N. Y. Reentered as second-class matter January 26, 1940, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 15 cents. Subscription rates: One year in the United States and possessions, 90c. Foreign and Canadian postage extra. English Office: Charles Lavell, Limited, 4 Clements Inn, Strand, London, W.C.2, England. The publishers are not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts although every care will be taken of such material while in their possession.
Copyright, 1941, by Weird Tales. Copyrighted in Great Britain.
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