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Copyright, 1928, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Contents for December, 1928
Cover Design Hugh Rankin
Illustrating a scene in "The Chapel of Mystic Horror"
Lyonesse R. Jere Black, Jr. 724
Verse; decoration by Hugh Rankin
The Chapel of Mystic Horror Seabury Quinn 725
The dread rites of the Knights of the Temple bring horror on a peaceful countryside—a tale of Jules de Grandin
Beyond Power of Man Paul Ernst 749
A powerful story of a strange monster, and a terrible night spent in a supposedly haunted house
The Copper Bowl George Fielding Eliot 757
A tale of China, and the agonizing torture of the rat, the heat, and the copper bowl
The Statement of Justin Parker August W. Derleth 765
These African pigmies shot through their blow-aims clusters of microbes that devoured whatever they touched
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