ALL STORIES NEW—NO REPRINTS
NOVELETTE
THE SHADOW FOLK Edmond Hamilton 6
A land where we, the normal, are strange and terrible, called fearfully by Them—The Others!
SHORT STORIES
THE LONG STILL STREETS OF EVENING Frank Owen 18
After midnight when the long streets are hushed all men are brothers whether they be kings or thieves
THE SEVEN SEAS ARE ONE Allison V. Harding 26
The Captain knew that somehow, some day his fate was coming—out of the sea and the wind!
BANG! YOU'RE DEAD! Ray Bradbury 35
The kid thought war was a game and that death and bullets were only make-believe
THE DEVIL'S TICKET Robert Bloch 42
The old man wanted a portrait of a human being; one that would capture the very soul!
PACIFIC 421 August Derleth 52
The rails were rusted, weeds grew between the ties, yet every week a train ran here—over a track not used for years
SORCERY FROM THULE Manly Wade Wellman 58
The enchantment calls for a spear of peculiar name and history; a spear that strikes in the night and comes back covered with hot blood
THE WAYWARD SKUNK Harold Lawlor 66
Skunks are like people. They form attachments and get mad—only when a skunk gets mad . . . !
THE WEIRDS OF THE WOODCARVER Gardner F. Fox 76
Man is but a parasite on the keel of the planet as it soars in perpetual journey through the void of eternity
MONSIEUR BLUEBEARD Emil Petaja 83
Gruesome crimes were his hobby; he'd made a meticulous study of a certain infamous Baron of the Middle Ages
VERSE
THE PATH THROUGH THE MARSH Leah Bodine Drake 51
RATS Glenn Ward Dresbach 75
TO THE MOON Stanton A. Coblentz 82
SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS Irwin J. Weill 65
THE EYRIE AND WEIRD TALES CLUB 90
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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