ALL STORIES NEW—NO REPRINTS
NOVELETTES
HELL ON EARTH - Robert Bloch 6
Would You Go to Hell for Ten Thousand Dollars? Watch Out for Scarlet Temptations in This Suspense-Charged Drama!
TIBETAN VENGEANCE - Stafford Aylmer 95
Weird and Terrible Are the Ways in Which the East Gets Back Its Own
SHORT STORIES
THE SUPERFLUOUS PHANTOM - Malcolm Jameson 38
If You Were a Spook—How Would YOU Feel if They Took Away Your Haunting License?
THE MARCH OF THE TREES Frank Owen 48
An Oriental Garden Gives Incredible Help to Its Gardener . . .
CHILD'S PLAY - Alice Mary Schnirring 53
The Game Was the Boy's Own Invention. And a Very Special and Horrible Little Game It Was . . .
THE RAT MASTER - Greye La Spina 62
The Rodent Regiments Recognized One Lord—and One Lord Alone
THE TREASURE OF RED ASH DESERT - Stanton A. Coblentz 75
Hop Aboard That Time Machine—and Come with Us Into the Fabulous Future!
HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR - H. P. Lovecraft 84
Can the Dead Be Brought Back to Life? Read This Tale and See
DEATH OF THE KRAKEN - David H. Keller 89
In the Sargasso Sea Are Many Monsters . . . Human Ones!
HERE, DAEMOS! - August W. Derleth 112
However Valuable They May Be, Some Dead and Buried Things Are Much Better Left That Way!
VERSE
GARDEN AT LU - Gerald Chan Sieg 47
WOOD WIFE - Leah Bodine Drake 59
HUNGER - Page Cooper 88
SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS Irwin J. Weill 60
THE EYRIE AND WEIRD TALES CLUB 118
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, 1942, by Weird Tales. Copyrighted in Great Britain. 173 Title registered in U. S. Patent Office. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. Vol. 36, No. 4 D. McILWRAITH, Editor. HENRY AVELINE PERKINS, Associate Editor.
