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All Stories New—No Reprints
| May, 1950 | Cover by Boris Dolgov |
| NOVELETTES | ||
| TELL YOUR FORTUNE | Robert Bloch | 6 |
| It looked like an ordinary barroom scales; but the little professor had trafficked with darkness to bring it into being. | ||
| DJINN AND BITTERS | Harold Lawlor | 22 |
| Fancy being married at ten o'clock—and having a djinn come out of a bottle by afternoon! | ||
| SHORT STORIES | ||
| THE ROUND TOWER | Stanton A. Coblentz | 36 |
| The ghostly voice pleaded for the stranger to come on: some counter voice, maybe an inward devil, warned him back. | ||
| THE LAST MAN | Seabury Quinn | 44 |
| "I have been told you can bring back the spirits of the dead. Is that true?" ... "Of course" was the reply. | ||
| THE TRIANGLE OF TERROR | William F. Temple | 50 |
| The words "Is anybody there?" died in my mouth—for it was manifest there was nobody. Yet I had seen.... | ||
| THE MONKEY SPOONS | Mary Elizabeth Counselman | 63 |
| These three little monkey spoons were surrounded by forces no one could combat. Forces older than time—older than logic | ||
| THE LAST THREE SHIPS | Margaret St. Clair | 70 |
| Fifteen deserted ships at night might give a graveyard, eerie effect; but it was all right if one kept away from those last three hulls. | ||
| AT THE END OF THE CORRIDOR | Evangeline Walton | 74 |
| A story of the Greek undead—if dead men could walk because they had reason for revenge, a lot of them would have done it these last few years. | ||
| THE MAN ON B-17 | Stephen Grendon | 82 |
| The cinder bull couldn't see the man on the trestle—nor the woman either—but the engineer and the fireman and the conductor, they all did. | ||
| MR. HYDE—AND SEEK | Malcolm M. Ferguson | 86 |
| Country doctors are supposed to be able to cope with anything. How about the supernatural? | ||
| THE EYRIE | 4 | |
| VERSE | ||
| LUNA AETERNALIS | Clark Ashton Smith | 43 |
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 of New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 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, 1950, by Weird Tales. Copyrighted in Great Britain.
Title registered in U. S. Patent Office.
| printed in the u. s. a. |
Vol. 42, No. 4
|
D. McILWRAITH, Editor.
