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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

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PBXNTXD IN THH U. S. A. VoL 36. No. 8 D. McILWRAITH, Editor. LAMONT BUCHANAN, Associate Editor.