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A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL

Weird Tales

REGISTERED IN U. S. PATENT OFFICE

Volume
34

CONTENTS FOR
OCTOBER, 1939

Number
4


Cover Design Harold S. Delay

An old alchemist

Mystery of the Missing Magnate - Ralph Milne Farley - 4

The tale of a man who found himself in two cities at once

The Witch's Cat - Gans T. Field - 10

A curious tale of the skinny black cat that lived in the witch’s house

The Sorcerer's Apprentice - 21

The origin of a weird legend

The Lady of the Bells - Seabury Quinn - 22

A romantic weird tale that spans the shadowy centuries

In the Walls of Eryx - Kenneth Sterling & H.P. Lovecraft - 50

Two earthmen are trapped in an invisible maze on the planet Venus

King of the World's Edge (Part 2) - H. Warner Munn - 69

The odyssey of a strange voyage to America in King Arthur’s time, and eery adventures

The Dead Speak - Vivian Stratton - 96

Verse

Finished Game - Harry Butman - 97

What weird compulsion guided the player’s hands in that archaic chess game?

Weird Story Reprint: Worms of the Earth - Robert E. Howard - 99

A shuddery story out of the past, reprinted by request

The Dream - Edith Hurley - 118

Verse

The Hashish-Eater - Virgil Finlay - 119

Pictorial interpretation of a poem by Clark Ashton Smith

The Eyrie - 120

Our readers exchange opinions




Published monthly by Weird Tales, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter September 24, 1938, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. Single copies, 15 cents. Subscription rates: One year in the United States and possessions, Cuba, Mexico, South America, Spain, $1.50; Canada, $1.75; elsewhere, $2.00. 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. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright and must not be reproduced either wholly or in part without permission from the publishers. FARNSWORTH WRIGHT, Editor.

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