Cover Design | Virgil Finlay | |
Illustrating a scene in "Spawn of Dagon" | ||
The Weird Sisters from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" | opposite this page | |
Pictorial interpretation from, drawn by Virgil Finlay | ||
Spawn of Dagon | Henry Kuttner | 2 |
A weird story of Elak of Atlantis, and the worship of the fish-god | ||
Fortune's Fools | Seabury Quinn | 14 |
A thrill-tale of the Dark Ages, about wolves that were men, and men that were wolves | ||
Dust in the House | David H. Keller | 36 |
A shuddery story about the skeletons that sat across the table from each other | ||
The Defense Rests | Julius Long | 45 |
An eery tale of a heartless lawyer, who nevertheless wanted to aquit his own murderer | ||
The Messenger | H. P. Lovecraft | 52 |
Verse | ||
The Black Drama (part 2) | Gans T. Field | 53 |
An eldritch tale about the eery personality that was called Varduk—a story about Lord Byron | ||
He That Hath Wings | Edmond Hamilton | 70 |
The story of a modern Icarus, who tasted the freedom of the sky | ||
Microcosms | Edgar Daniel Kramer | 85 |
Verse | ||
Mother of Toads | Clark Ashton Smith | 86 |
Weird and powerful was the effect of the old woman's potion on the young apprentice | ||
Escape | Paul Ernst | 91 |
A brief tale about the escape of a madman | ||
Return to the Sabbath | Robert Bloch | 95 |
A story of Hollywood—and the gruesome things that emerged from the burial crypt | ||
Ships | Robert E. Howard | 104 |
Verse | ||
Weird Story Reprint: | ||
Saladin's Throne-Rug | E. Hoffmann Price | 105 |
A popular story from an old issue of WEIRD TALES | ||
The Eyrie | 122 | |
The readers of WEIRD TALES express their opinions |
Under all graves they murmur,
They murmur and rebel,
Down to the buried kingdoms creep,
And like a lost rain roar and weep
O'er the red heavens of hell.
—Chesterton.
"Nicolete o le gent cors,
Por vos sui venuz en bos. . ."
"Bel compaignet,
Dieus ait Ancassinet . . ."
"Mater purissima, speculum justitiae,
Mater castissima, mater inviolata . . ."
"Isot ma drue, Isot ma mie!
En vous ma mort, en vous ma vie!"
"Belle amie, ainsi va de nous,
Ni vous sans moi, ni moi sans vous!"
"Isot ma drue, Isot ma mie!
En vous ma mort, en vous ma vie!"
"Belle amie, ainsi va de nous!
Ni vous sans moi, ni moi sans vous!"
at the feet of my Lord I fall; I have bowed
me down seven times with breast and back;
and all that the King said to me,
well, well do I hear! Abimilki, a
servant of the King am I, and
the dust of thy two feet!
In the name of Allah,
the Merciful, the Compas-
sionate! To my Lord Salah ad
Din Yusuf bin Ayyub, the Sun of
Heaven, thus hath spoken Abimilki, the
groom of thy horse: I am the dust under the
sandals of my Lord the King; seven and seven times
at the feet of my Lord I fall; I have bowed
me down seven times with breast and
back; and all that the King said to
me, well, well do I hear! Abim-
ilki, a servant of the King am I,
and the dust of thy two feet!