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of fascinating stories is scheduled for early publication in the unique magazine. The brilliant success of has been founded on its unrivaled, superb stories of the strange, the grotesque and the terrible—gripping stories that stimulate the imagination and send shivers of apprehension up the spine—tales that take the reader from the humdrum world about us into a deathless realm of fancy—marvelous tales so thrillingly told that they seem, very real. prints the best weird fiction in the world today. If Poe were alive he would undoubtedly be a contributor. In addition to creepy mystery stories, ghost-tales, stories of devil-worship, witchcraft, vampires and strange monsters, this magazine also prints the cream of the weird-scientific fiction that is written today—tales of the spaces between the worlds, surgical stories, and stories that scan the future with the eye of prophecy. Among the amazing tales in the next few issues will be:

THE DEVIL-PEOPLE, by Seabury Quinn

Jules de Grandin goes into action against a band of strange foes, who have trailed their victims from the Malay Archipelago to the United States, and strewn their paths with brutal murders.

THE SHADOW OF A NIGHTMARE, by Donald Wandrei

Tucked away in a corner of the Himalayas was a strange country, inhabited entirely by madmen; and from a manuscript that found its way to the outer world from this Country of the Mad stalked forth nightmare and horror.

THE STAR-STEALERS, by Edmond Hamilton

A startling tale of a million years in the future, when stark terror strikes at our solar system from outside the bounds of our universe—one of the most fascinating astronomical stories ever written.

THE BRASS KEY, by Hal K. Wells

Bull Partlow runs afoul of the Chinese, Foo Chong, who devises a hideous ordeal for the thug, yet gives him a chance for his life—a grim tale of venomous spiders.

THE DEMON OF TLAXPAM, by Otis Adelbert Kline

Death struck again and again near Tlaxpam—a flying death that winged through the air and sliced off the heads of its victims—a gripping novelette by the author of "The Bride of Osiris."

THE LAUGHING THING, by G. G. Pendarves

Eldred Werne signed away his estates to Jason Drewe, and then died, but the terrific manifestations at the manor showed that he wielded more power dead than alive—a powerful ghost-story.

SKULLS IN THE STARS, by Robert E. Howard

As strange and unusual a ghost-story as was ever penned is this eery tale by the author of "Red Shadows"—a story of Solomon Kane and a wild adventure on a moonlit moor—an eldritch tale of shuddery horror.

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