 | An image should appear at this position in the text. To use the entire page scan as a placeholder, edit this page and replace "{{missing image}}" with "{{raw image|Weird Tales Volume 36 Number 08 (1942-11).djvu/4}}". Otherwise, if you are able to provide the image then please do so. For guidance, see Wikisource:Image guidelines and Help:Adding images. |  |
ALL STORIES NEW—NO REPRINTS
NOVEMBER, 1942
Cover by Richard Bennett
NOVELETTE
NURSEMAID TO NIGHTMARES - Robert Bloch 6
Julius Margate collects horrors the way some people collect stamps
SHORT STORIES
THE HOUND - Fritz Leiber 34
These monsters feed on our fears, they haunt us, terrorize us
THE CROOKED HOUSE - Thorne Lee 45
A hunchbacked, brooding monster, this house with the twisted soul
THE VICTORY OF THE VITA-RAY - Stanton A. Coblentz 60
Twenty bloodstained bigshots of history are recalled from eternity
THE GOLDEN BOUGH - David H. Keller 67
In the moonlight the laughing man would come, playing his Pan-like music—and she knew she must dance or die
THE GHOST OF THE MODEL T - Betsy Emmons 78
This man was stalked by a phantom, the specter of his first car
THE CANDLE - Ray Bradbury 83
The proprietor pronounced the candle an implement of destruction
THE LIPS OF CAYA WU - Frank Owen 90
There was no escape, for octopus-like, the Chinaman's schemes spread out everywhere
HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR - H. P. Lovecraft 96
The scientist finds that the quest for the secret of life leads surely through the grave
THE POSSESSED - Alice-Mary Schnirring 100
Some macabre horror was here, changing this town and the people in it in appearance as night drew near
THE EVIL DOLL - Hannes Bok 107
Was it hypnotism or witchcraft—she must know for her sanity; her very life depended on the answer
VERSE
THE DEAD WORLD - Clarence Edwin Flynn 77
INTO FANTASY - Maria Moravsky 82
SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS - Irwin J. Weill 58
THE EYRIE AND WEIRD TALES CLUB . . . 120
Except for personal experiences the contents of this magazine is fiction. Any use
of the name of any living person or reference to actual events is purely coincidental
Published bi-monthly by Weird Tales, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N. Y. Reentered as second-class matter January 26, 1940, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 15 cents. Subscription rates: One year in the United States and possessions, 90c. Foreign and Canadian postage extra. English Office: Charles Lavell, Limited, 4 Clements Inn, Strand, London, W.C.2, England. The publishers are not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts although every care will be taken of such material while in their possession.
Copyright, 1942, by Weird Tales. Copyrighted in Great Britain.
Title registered in U. S. Patent Office.
PBXNTXD IN THH U. S. A. VoL 36. No. 8 D. McILWRAITH, Editor. LAMONT BUCHANAN, Associate Editor.
