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SEPTEMBER, 1944

NOVELETTE

THE SHADOW FOLK	 Edmond Hamilton 6

A land where we, the normal, are strange and terrible, called fearfully by Them—The Others!

SHORT STORIES

THE LONG STILL STREETS OF EVENING Frank Owen 18

After midnight when the long streets are hushed all men are brothers whether they be kings or thieves

THE SEVEN SEAS ARE ONE Allison V. Harding 26

The Captain knew that somehow, some day his fate was coming—out of the sea and the wind!

BANG! YOU'RE DEAD! Ray Bradbury 35

The kid thought war was a game and that death and bullets were only make-believe

THE DEVIL'S TICKET Robert Bloch 42

The old man wanted a portrait of a human being; one that would capture the very soul!

PACIFIC 421 August Derleth 52

The rails were rusted, weeds grew between the ties, yet every week a train ran here—over a track not used for years

SORCERY FROM THULE Manly Wade Wellman 58

The enchantment calls for a spear of peculiar name and history; a spear that strikes in the night and comes back covered with hot blood

THE WAYWARD SKUNK Harold Lawlor 66

''Skunks are like people. They form attachments and get mad—only when a skunk gets mad ''

THE WEIRDS OF THE WOODCARVER Gardner F. Fox 76

Man is but a parasite on the keel of the planet as it soars in perpetual journey through the void of eternity

MONSIEUR BLUEBEARD Emil Petaja 83

Gruesome crimes were his hobby; he'd made a meticulous study of a certain infamous Baron of the Middle Ages

VERSE

THE PATH THROUGH THE MARSH Leah Bodine Drake 51

RATS Glenn Ward Dresbach 75

TO THE MOON Stanton A. Coblentz 82

SUPERSTITIONS AND TABOOS Irwin J. Weill 65

THE EYRIE AND WEIRD TALES CLUB 90

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