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WEIRD
TALES
February, 1928
Vol. 11, No. 2
Title Issue: MULti-WT0053
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago, IL
Editor: Farnsworth Wright
Price: $0.25
Pages: 144
Cover: C. C. Senf - Illustrating
a scene
from "The Ghost-Table"
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Serials/Complete
Novels:
The Giant World [Part 2 of 3]..........Ray Cummings
A three-part
weird-scientific
serial - a distant world - giants growing into largeness unfathomable
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gooseflesh adventures.
Novelettes:
The
Call of Cthulhu..........H. P. Lovecraft
Slithering through
the earth
came the thoughts of Cthulhu, and mankind feared the rule of an obscene
and incredible monstrosity.
Clarimonde..........Théophile Gautier [Weird Story
Reprint]
"Le Morte
Amoureusse," the
most exquisitely beautiful of all vampire tales, translated by Lafcadio
Hearn.
Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd...........Seabury Quinn
Jules de Grandin
rescues
an Austrian girl from the fiendish grasp of a heartless devil syndicate.
Short Stories:
The Curse of Alabad, Ghinu and Aratza..........Wilfred
Blanch
Talman
"If she sinks she is
innocent,
but if she floats, she is a wtich and must die!" - a tale of old New
York.
The Dream Snake..........Robert E. Howard
An eery snake story -
an
unusual tale - night by night the horror grew, until it completely
emeshed
the doomed man.
The Ghost-Table..........Elliot O'Donnell
An exciting tale of
occult
phenomena - a rampant beast, lusing to kill, [----] this table with the
tiger-claws.
The Isle of the Fairy Morgana..........John Martin Leahy
A cruel murder took
place
of Flang Island, hidden from the world, yet Guy Osford saw every
frightful
detail of the murder.
The Mist-Monster..........Granville S. Hoss
A weird mist billowed
up
from the [----] - and horrible was the thing that it hid.
The Purple Sea..........Frank Owen
Another exquisite
Chinese
fantasy, as full of color as the [----[ "The Wind That Tramps the
World."
The Shadow on the Moor..........Stuart Strauss
A creepy tale of the
pre-druidistic
ruins of England - out on the moor were dacning and strange wild music
and death.
Essays/Articles:
The Eerie
A chat with the
readers
Folks Used to Believe: The Barnacle Goose..........Alvin
F.
Harlow
One of the curious
superstitions
of our ancestors.
Poems:
The Three Witches..........Ernest Dowson
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