A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL
Weird Tales
REGISTERED IN US. PATENT OFFICE
Volume
34
CONTENTS FOR
SEPTEMBER, 1939
Number
3
Cover Design Virgil Finlay
Illustrating Edgar Allan Poe's poem classic, "The Raven" (see page 101)
While Zombies Walked - Thorp McClusky - 5
A dark story of living dead men
Spanish Vampire - E. Hoffmann Price - 23
Strange romance of a filling-station attendant and a beautiful vampire girl
The Door Without a Key - Seabury Quinn - 33
The Chinese magic of Yai Ching and a weird romance of the American Civil War
King of the World's Edge (Part 1) - H. Warner Munn - 35
The odyssey of a strange voyage to America in King Arthur's time, and eery adventures
Spawn of the Maelstrom - August Derleth and Mark Schorer - 84
What hideous thing stalked the earth in the likeness of Jason Warwick?
Cool Air - H. P. Lovecraft - 93
A ghastly mystery enveloped the Spanish doctor's attempts at artificial refrigeration
A Night in Malneant - Clark Ashton Smith - 102
An exquisite weird fantasy about the death of the lady Mariel
Weird Story Reprint:
Gray Ghouls - Bassett Morgan - 106
A story of stark horror from an early number of Weird Tales
The Eyrie - 120
Our readers exchange opinions
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