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Volume 28 | CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1936 | Number 3 |
Cover Design | J. Allen St. John | |
Illustrating a scene in "Isle of the Undead" | ||
Isle of the Undead | Lloyd Arthur Eshbach | 259 |
An uncanny tale of the fate that befell a yachting party on the awful island of living dead men | ||
The Lost Temples of Xantoos | Howell Calhoun | 276 |
Verse | ||
The Opener of the Way | Robert Bloch | 277 |
A tremendous tale of dread doom in a forgotten tomb beneath the desert sands of Egypt | ||
Witch-Burning | Mary Elizabeth Counselman | 288 |
Verse | ||
The Lost Door | Dorothy Quick | 289 |
An alluring but deadly horror out of past centuries menaced the life of a young American | ||
Doom of the House of Duryea | Earl Peirce, Jr. | 304 |
A powerful story of stark horror, and the dreadful thing that happened in a lone lodge in the Maine woods | ||
The Tree of Life | C. L. Moore | 315 |
A tale of the planet Mars and a terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar | ||
Red Nails (end) | Robert E. Howard | 334 |
A three-part serial story of a weird roofed city and the strangest people ever spawned | ||
R. E. H. | R. H. Barlow | 353 |
Verse, a tribute to the late Robert E. Howard | ||
The Doors of Death | Arthur B. Waltermire | 354 |
A strange and curious story about a banker whose only fear was that be might he buried alive | ||
The Secret of Kralitz | Henry Kuttner | 361 |
A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz | ||
Weird Story Reprint: The Great Keinplatz Experiment |
Arthur Conan Doyle | 366 |
A weird-scientific story by a late British writer | ||
The Eyrie | 378 | |
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Published monthly by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 2457 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second-class matter March 20, 1923, at the post office at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 25 cents. Subscription rates: One year in the United States and possessions, Cuba, Mexico, South America. Spain, $2.50; Canada, $2.75; elsewhere, $3.00. English office: Otis A. Kline, c/o John Paradise, 86 Strand, W. C. 2, London. The publishers are not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, although every care will be taken of such material while in their possession. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright and must not be reproduced either wholly or in part without permission from the publishers.
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FARNSWORTH WRIGHT, Editor.
Copyright, 1936, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company,
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