A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL
Weird Tales
REGISTERED IN US. PATENT OFFICE
Cover Design - Virgil Finlay
Illustrating “Apprentice Magician”
The Valley Was Still - Manly Wade Wellman - 5
An eery tale of the American Civil War
Apprentice Magician - E. Hoffmann Price - 15
A whimsical weird story explaining why conjuring spells are all in dead languages
Spawn - P. Schuyler Miller - 26
Nicholas Svadin, European dictator, rose from his bier to rule the world
Voice in a Veteran’s Ear - Gans T. Field - 45
Verse
The Little Man - Clifford Ball - 46
An odd and curious story about three strange murders
Return from Death - Bruce Bryan - 56
A terrific experience of a man who allowed himself to be killed
The Fisherman’s Special - H. L. Thomson - 66
A peculiar little tale of werewolfery
The House of the Three Corpses - Seabury Quinn - 69
What weird statues stood guard over the grave of Josi Gutierree and his wife?
Giants in the Sky - Frank Belknap Long, Jr. - 91
An imaginative and astonishing tale of super-beings from another cosmos
Dupin and Another - Vincent Starrett - 101
Verse
Almuric (End) - Robert E. Howard - 102
An amazing novel of the demon-haunted world Almuric
The Laugh - Richard H. Hart - 125
That ghastly cacchination told the diamond-thief that his graveyard quest was fruitless
The Totem-Pole - Robert Bloch - 131
A frightful horror was consummated in the Indian wing of the museum
My Tomb - James E. Warren, Jr. - 138
Verse
“I Can Call Spirits” - Virgil Finlay - 139
Pictorial interpretation of a line from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV”
Weird Story Reprint:
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe - 140
One of the most famous of classic weird stories
The Gardens of Yin - H. P. Lovecraft - 151
Verse
The Eyrie - 152
The readers interchange opinions
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from the publishers. FARNSWORTH WRIGHT, Editor
Copyright 1989, by Weird Tales 178
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