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Post by dem bones on Apr 24, 2022 9:24:17 GMT
Farnsworth Wright [ed.] - Weird Tales (Dec. 1928)  Hugh Rankin
Seabury Quinn - The Chapel of Mystic Horror
Paul Ernst - Beyond Power of Man
George Fielding Eliot - The Copper Bowl
August W. Derleth - The Statement of Justin Parker
Joel Martin Nichols, jnr - The Isle of Lost Souls (Pt.1)
Stuart Strauss - The Soul Tube
C. T. Lanham - Promise for my Enemy (verse)
Henry S. Whitehead - Cult of the Skull
Donald Wandrei - Sonnets of the Midnight Hour #9. The Head (verse)
Frank Owen - The Tinkle of the Camel's Bell
Robert E. Howard - Easter Island (verse)
H. Warner Munn - The Werewolf's Daughter (conclusion)
Jack Snow - Poison
W. C. Morrow - The Monster Maker
Alvin F. Harlow - Folk used to Believe: Lilith
The EyrieOne half of Classic Horror Pulps Vol 1.  Hugh Rankin: The dread rites of the Knights of the Temple bring horror on a peaceful countryside - a tale of Jules de Grandin. While visiting Cyprus, multimillionaire Monsieur Tandy von Riper is so taken with a twelfth century monastery that he has it transported home to Osmondville, New Jersey and reassembled brick for brick. Alas, the chapel comes complete with the ghosts of the Knights Templar who used if for orgies and child sacrifice to Cytheria, the Goddess of lust. The Black Lodge duly possess a gifted young artist, butcher a policeman, abduct a minor and crucify a bat before de Grandin sends them back to the fires of Hell with a sprig from the Holy Thorn of Glastonbury.  Hugh Rankin : A powerful story of a strange monster, and a terrible night spent in a supposedly haunted house. "I'm losing good money by not being able to sell or rent. I'd be willing to pay $500 cash to anyone who can lay my ghost." Dr. Wayne Early, 42, geologist and sceptic, accepts the challenge to spend a night in a house reputedly haunted by "something enormous" and powerful enough to hurl a man through a window. Is there some possible connection between the 'phantom' and the fossilized bones of an enormous prehistoric ape recently excavated nearby? August W. Derleth - The Statement of Justin Parker: These African pigmies shot through their blow-guns clusters of microbes that devoured whatever they touched. Disappearance of Michael Salisbury (of Salisbury Plain) in the winter of 1916, four years after he returned from the African veldt with a jewel plucked from the idol of a pigmy tribe. They want it back, and if that requires liquefying the thief to a puddle of grey slime, so be it!
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Post by andydecker on Apr 24, 2022 14:53:34 GMT
This is a beautiful cover.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 25, 2022 18:01:37 GMT
This is a beautiful cover. The story has its moments, too. Cruel on the Templars. All that effort to resurrect after seven centuries trapped in stone, only to be seen off by a man waving a twig.  Hugh Rankin: The world revolution was to be financed by that skull which contained the teeth of the haters of government. According to Dr. Bernard Bruso, Capitalism will fall when the sacred relic is full to the top with the molars of the dead. "The teeth of Edgar Allan Poe are there - it was he who wrote the strange tale of the thirty-two teeth which is the clue, and which all save those of the Cult have supposed to be the work of a clever madman!" When author Edward Carey inadvertently discovers the plot, Bruso prescribes a deadly poison for his troublesome cough. Jack Snow - Poison: The suicide fought to keep from dying after it was too late - but it was strange, after all, that he should die. The break up with Sara convinces Cristin he's better off dead, so it's off to the kindly druggist for a phial of sulphuric acid. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2022 8:00:27 GMT
 Hugh Rankin: The old man learned many strange secrets in the corners of Asia, but he had to hide out like a rat from his enemies. Six years in a Buddhist lamasery in the snow-capped mountains of Tibet taught Asa Cheeney more forbidden knowledge than any one man should know, including the secret of soul migration. Back home in Fish Court, New York, he connives to exchange bodies with a healthy, athletic young stranger. Enjoyed this one. Maybe the issue's nastiest story after ...  Hugh Rankin. A tale of China, and the agonizing torture of the rat, the heat, and the copper bowl"God! What a position! Either betray his flag, his regiment, betray his comrades to their deaths - or see his Lily butchered before his eyes!" That's the unenviable dilemma facing brave Lieutenant Andre Fournet of the French Foreign Legion. He's endured all the tortures the evil Wong can inflict upon him without revealing the location and strength of his colleagues on the Mephong River so now the even more evil mad mandarin Yuan Li has a crack at breaking his resolve. With Andre held secure, Yaun Li summons his guards who lead in the innocent Lily, some heavy duty bondage equipment, a copper bowl and a nice, mangy grey rat .... Frank Owen - The Tinkle of the Camel's Bell: A Chinese fantasy about Li Kan and his wanderings, and a superbly beautiful woman who was incredibly aged. |
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