ALL STORIES NEW—NO REPRINTS
JULY, 1942 Cover by Margaret Brundage
NOVELETTES
COVEN - Manly Wade Wellman 4
They Had a Belief—a Terrible, Travestied Worship!—That Claimed Them Even More Completely than the Fervor of True Religion Claims Saints and Martyrs . . .
IS THE DEVIL A GENTLEMAN? - Seabury Quinn 102
Is It Possible, Is It WISE, To Compromise With Evil? Read This Tale and Decide for Yourself!
SHORT STORIES
LANSING'S LUXURY - August W. Derleth 25
Whatever You Do—Don't Lose Your Imagination. It CanBe Very, Very Dangerous . . .
THE GUN - Frank Gruber 31
An Astounding Transformation . . . Bookkeeper to "The Most Dangerous Killer in the Annals of Police History"!
FOR TOMORROW WE DIE - Frank Owen 42
You Seek the Golden Pill of Immortality? Perhaps You'll Find It. Perhaps . . .
DEAD SILENCE - Leonard Lee Chariot 50
Listen! And You Will Hear from Afar Off the Very Sound of Death . . .
THE HIGH TOWER - Everil Worrell 60
The Lord of Chaos . . . a Formless Something Going Far Through Emptiness—and Moaning as It Goes!
POOR LITTLE TAMPICO - Hannes Bok 75
She'd Found a Really Novel Way of Telling Fortunes. Too Novel . . .
HERBERT WEST—REANIMATOR - H. P. Lovecraft 86
Episode the Second in this Gruesome Series of the Scientist Who Sought to Snap the Chains of Death!
THE REDOUBTABLE HORACE GOPPENDYK - John Broome 91
Meet the Man Who Is a Human Heating Plant—a Physical Refrigerator!
VERSE
MOONLIGHT - Timeus Gaylord 49
A MANGROVE SWAMP William de Lisle 120
SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS - Irwin J. Weill 58
THE EYRIE AND WEIRD TALES CLUB - 121
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.
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