Cover Design | Virgil Finlay | |
Illustrating a scene in "Frozen Beauty" | ||
Old Cornish Litany | Virgil Finlay | 129 |
Pictorial interpretation | ||
Frozen Beauty | Seabury Quinn | 131 |
A story of Jules de Grandin and the daring experiment of a great Russian Surgeon | ||
The Diary of Alonzo Typer | William Lumley | 152 |
What dread occult evil lurked beyond the iron door in that old mansion? | ||
The Goddess Awakes | Clifford Ball | 167 |
A striking novelette about a roving soldier of fortune and the stone image of a gigantic cat | ||
The Strangling Hands | M. G. Moretti | 194 |
A weird doom pursued the stealers of the eye from an idol in a jungle shrine | ||
Haunting Columns | Robert E. Howard | 203 |
Posthumous verse by a master of weird writing | ||
World's End | Henry Kuttner | 204 |
A weird-scientific tale of the terrible Black Doom, spawned in the heart of a meteorite | ||
The Hairy Ones Shall Dance (part 2) | Gans T. Field | 212 |
A serial novel of a hideous horror—a tale of terror and sudden death | ||
From Beyond | H. P. Lovecraft | 227 |
A posthumous story by a great master of fantastic literature | ||
Ally of Stars | Irene Wilde | 236 |
Verse | ||
The Piper from Bhutan | David Bernard | 232 |
An eery wailing floated from the old piper's hands, with startling results | ||
The Passing of Van Mitten | Claude Farrere | 237 |
A weird yarn by a French Academician—translated by Roy Temple House | ||
The Ghosts at Haddon-le-Green | Alfred I. Tooke | 240 |
A graveyard tale that sounds suspiciously like verse | ||
Weird Story Reprint: |
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Jumbee | Henry S. Whitehead | 241 |
A West Indian story from an early issue of WEIRD TALES | ||
The Eyrie | 250 | |
A department in which the readers discuss weird tales |
NEED HELP STOP FORGIVE PAST AND
COME AT ONCE
ANTHONY HENDERSON.
July 7, 1930 (by special correspondent): After
losing a bitterly fought battle to have the time of
his execution changed, L. C. MacKenzie, convicted
last May of the murder of his one-time fellow
explorer, Anthony Henderson, suffered death by
hanging in the prison yard here at seven minutes
after midnight this morning. . . .
Possible Werewolf Motivations
I. Involuntary lycanthrony.
1. Must have blood to drink (connection
with vampirism?).
2. Must have secrecy.
3. Driven to desperation by contemplating
horror of own position.
II. Voluntary lycamhropy.
1. Will to do evil.
2. Will to exert power through fear.
III. Contributing factors to becoming
werewolf.
1. Loneliness and dissatisfaction.
2. Hunger for forbidden foods (human
flesh, etc.).
3. Scorn and hate of fellow men, general or
specific.
4. Occult curiosity.
5. Simon-pure insanity (Satanist complex).
Are any or all of these traits to be found in
werewolf
Find one and ask it.
"There they hung, though no ladder's rung
Supported their dangling feet.