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ALL STORIES NEWNO REPRINTS

SEPTEMBER, 1942

Cover by A. R, Tilburn


NOVELETTES

SATAN'S BONDAGE . . . Manly Banister 6

Different, Super Thrilling—a Werewolf Western

NEVER THE TWAIN . . . Seabury Quinn 100

When a Man Takes the Law into His Own Hands—Old Laws and Ancient Gods Prevail!


SHORT STORIES

DEATH HAS RED HAIR . . . Greye La Spina 25

In Her Eyes Was Something Elfish, Unearthly

A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE . . . Robert Bloch 35

Nightmare Itself Will Perch on Your Shoulder and Whisper in Your Ear—Lisping Unspeakable Vileness!

SPIDER MANSION . . . Fritz Leiber 43

Loathsome Indeed Was the Power that Rules This House of Monstrous Growth and Forbidden Secrets

THE BRIDLE . . . David H. Keller, M.D. 58

Hellish Force Lurks in That Very Ancient Piece of Equipment

WHO ARE THE LIVING? . . . Clark Ashton Smith 71

He Maintained That the Dead Are Not; Nor the Living the Living, For That Matter . . .

HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR . . . H. P. Lovecraft 75

Episode the Third in This Series. A Scientist Continues His Experiments with Eternity . . . Outrageous, Abominable Experiments!

VISIBILITY: ZERO . . . Nelson S. Bond 79

Confusing, Isn't It, Talking to an Optical Illusion?

EYES OF THE PANTHER . . . Kuke Nichols 90

Through the Chinks and Crevices of Man's World Peer the Creatures of the Pit—Longing for Their Own . . .


VERSE

CHANGELING . . . Leah Bodine Drake 99


SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS . . . Irwin J. Weill 56

THE EYRIE AND WEIRD TALES CLUB . . . 120


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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D. McILWRAITH, Editor.
HENRY AVELINE PERKINS, Associate Editor.