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All Stories New No Reprints
SEPTEMBER, 1950 Cover by Bill Wayne
NOVELETTE
Legal Rites . . . Isaac Asimov and James MacGreagh 8
"The fact that I was once killed by violence doesn't mean that I have lost my legal rights, does it?"
SHORT STORIES
THE PINEYS . . . Manly Wade Wellman 26
Rumor had it that the Pineys were horrible all right, but that they weren't really people. They lived around longleaf districts and have lived there since the beginning of time.
THE SHADOW FROM THE STEEPLE . . . Robert Bloch 34
. . . assailed by a curious psychic disturbance, he seemed to see "visions of other lands and the gulfs beyond the stars." And then, there appeared the creature of darkness who could not survive light.
THE MIRROR . . . Mildred Johnson 47
They were all there in the mirror—the husband whom she hated, and the sons she loved. For in that mirror one could see the dead.
UNKNOWN LADY . . . Harold Lawlor 54
Could there be any real reason why such a desirable house should be vacant in a housing shortage?
POTTS' TRIUMPH . . . August Derleth 64
The Laver sisters had wallpaper with sound effects. If you listened carefully it sounded as if someone far away were saying, "Let me out!"
THE SPANISH CAMERA . . . Carl Jacobi 70
It's one thing to focus your camera; another when it takes matters into its own hands and focuses itself.
THE THREE POOLS AND THE PAINTED MOON . . . Frank Owen 79
. . . Even as he struggled, Tang Ling regretted that he had painted his attacker with such an abundance of virility.
THE INSISTENT HOST . . . Emil Petaja 84
She could feel those muddy gray, half blind eyes watching her as they had when he was alive.
VERSE
INCANTATION . . . Page Cooper 63
THE EYRIE . . . 4
WEIRD TALES CLUB . . . 83
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, 25 cents. Subscription rates: One year In the United States and possessions, $1.50. Foreign and Canadian postage extra. 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, 1950, by Weird Tales. Copyright in Great Britain.
Title registered in U. S. Patent Office.
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