A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL
REGISTERED IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE
Volume 30 | CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1937 | Number 1 |
Cover Design | Virgil Finlay | |
Illustrating a scene in "The Thief of Forthe" | ||
The Thief of Forthe | Clifford Ball | 2 |
The story of a thief who coveted a kingdom, and the appalling secret of an old magician | ||
To Virgil Finlay | H. P. Lovecraft | 17 |
Verse, written on seeing Mr. Finlay's illustration for "The Faceless God" | ||
Jail-break | Paul Ernst | 18 |
The aftermath of Littell's escape from prison was far worse than the prison itself | ||
The Whistling Corpse | G. G. Pendarves | 26 |
A gripping weird novelette of the sea, by the author of "The Eighth Green Man" | ||
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft | Clark Ashton Smith | 48 |
Verse, a memorial tribute to a supreme master of weird and outre literature | ||
Raider of the Spaceways | Henry Kuttner | 49 |
A startling weird-scientific story about a vampiric entity on the Night Side of the planet Venus | ||
The Last Pharaoh (part 3) | Thomas P. Kelley | 68 |
A story of the weird doom that enmeshed two lovers in a castle of gloom on the African coast | ||
The Ocean Ogre | Dana Carroll | 94 |
A tale of the thing called Alain Gervais that came aboard a ship at sea | ||
The Interview | H. Sivia | 100 |
An astonishing surprize awaited the young reporter when he returned to his newspaper's city room | ||
The Creeper in the Crypt | Robert Bloch | 104 |
A tale of stark horror in the dread cellar of an evil house in legend-haunted Arkham | ||
Weird Story Reprint: The Hounds of Tindalos |
Frank Belknap Long, Jr. | 111 |
An eery tale reprinted from WEIRD TALES of eight years ago | ||
The Eyrie | 122 | |
The readers discuss the merits and demerits of this magazine |
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, 1937, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company,
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