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Weird Tales

ALL STORIES NEW — NO REPRINTS

JULY, 1943
Cover by E. Franklin Wittmack

SPECIAL FEATURE

HIS LAST APPEARANCE . . . H. Bedford-Jones 6

A reef in the middle of the ocean is an ideal place for occult manifestations


NOVELETTES

THE UNFRIENDLY WORLD . . . Allison V. Harding 28

No one knows what strange lands we pass through on our way to and from consciousness

RETURN OF THE UNDEAD . . . Otis Adelbert Kline & Frank Belknap Long 56

No less than anybody else, a medical student has to be shown that things really do come back from the grave


SHORT STORIES

THE STREET OF FACES Frank Owen 20

It was a strange street; it had seen many strange faces—like the man without a face

LOST . . . Alice-Mary Schnirring 43

Life and death are never far apart in the enveloping darkness of the blacked-out Atlantic coast

THE SCYTHE . . . Ray Bradbury 46

Somewhere there is a field, and a farmer there who unendingly cuts the wheat, his blade moving on day and night—forever!

LEGACY IN CRYSTAL . . . James Causey 74

She dreamed that the ring had a funny little red man inside, and he was laughing at her

YOURS TRULY—JACK THE RIPPER . . . Robert Bloch 83

When stalking a mad monster, the trailer must take care that he doesn’t find himself the trailed—too late!

TAMARA, THE GEORGIAN QUEEN . . . Harold Lawlor 96

It's horrible to think that such tragedy can start with gaiety, and just an evil suggestion—no more than that

VERSE

STRANGE MUSIC . . . Dorothy Quick 55

DESERT DWELLER . . . Clark Ashton Smith 71

SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS . . . Irwin J. Weill 72

THE EYRIE AND WEIRD TALES CLUB 107


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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Copyright, 1943, by Weird Tales. Copyrighted in Great Britain.
Title registered in U. S. Patent Office.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
Vol. 36, No. 12


D. McILWRAITH, Editor.
LAMONT BUCHANAN, Associate Editor.