A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL
REGISTERED IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE
Volume 31 | CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1938 | Number 3 |
Cover Design | M. Brundage | |
Illustrating "Incense of Abomination" | ||
"Like one, that on a lonesome road" | Virgil Finlay | 257 |
Pictorial interpretation from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | ||
Incense of Abomination | Seabury Quinn | 259 |
A daring story of Devil-worship, strange suicides, and Jules de Grandin | ||
The Poets | Robert E. Howard | 279 |
Posthumous verse, by a late master of weird literature | ||
The Thing on the Floor | Thorp McClusky | 280 |
The story of an unscrupulous hypnotist, and the frightful thing called Stepan | ||
Dreadful Sleep | Jack Williamson | 298 |
A romantic and tragic tale of fearsome beings that lay in slumber under the antarctic ice | ||
The Shadow on the Screen | Henry Kuttner | 320 |
A weird story of Hollywood and the silver screen | ||
Beyond the Wall of Sleep | H. P. Lovecraft | 331 |
What splendid yet terrible experiences came to the poor mountaineer while he slept? | ||
The Hairy Ones Shall Dance (end) | Gans T. Field | 339 |
A novel of terror and sudden death, and the frightful thing that laired in the Devil's Croft | ||
Guarded | Mearle Prout | 354 |
A brief tale of murder—by the author of "The Home of the Worm" | ||
The Teakwood Box | Johns Harrington | 358 |
San Pedro Joe found the secret in that intricately carved Oriental box | ||
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft | Francis Flagg | 361 |
Sonnet to a late master of weird literature | ||
The Head in the Window | Roy Temple House | 362 |
A brief tale, adapted from the German of Wilhelm von Scholz | ||
Weird Story Reprint: The Girl from Samarcand |
E. Hoffmann Price | 367 |
A favorite tale by a master of fantasy, reprinted by popular demand | ||
The Eyrie | 378 | |
Wherein the readers of WEIRD TALES voice their opinions |
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