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NOVELETTE

LEGAL RITES  Isaac Asimov and James MacGreagh 8

"The fact that I was once killed by violence doesn't mean that I have lost my legal rights, does it?"

SHORT STORIES

THE PINEYS Manly Wade Wellman 26

''Rumor had it that the Pineys were horrible all right, but that they weren't really people. They lived around longleaf districts and have lived there since the beginning of time.''

THE SHADOW FROM THE STEEPLE  Robert Bloch 34

'' assailed by a curious psychic disturbance, he seemed to see "visions of other lands and the gulfs beyond the stars." And then, there appeared the creature of darkness who could not survive light.''

THE MIRROR Mildred Johnson 47

''They were all there in the mirror—the husband whom she hated, and the sons she loved. For in that mirror one could see the dead.''

UNKNOWN LADY Harold Lawlor 54

Could there be any real reason why such a desirable house should be vacant in a housing shortage?

POTTS' TRIUMPH  August Derleth 64

''The Laver sisters had wallpaper with sound effects. If you listened carefully it sounded as if someone far away were saying, "Let me out!"''

THE SPANISH CAMERA Carl Jacobi 70

It's one thing to focus your camera; another when it takes matters into its own hands and focuses itself.

THE THREE POOLS AND THE PAINTED MOON Frank Owen 79

 Even as he struggled, Tang Ling regretted that he had painted his attacker with such an abundance of virility.

THE INSISTENT HOST Emil Petaja 84

She could feel those muddy gray, half blind eyes watching her as they had when he was alive.

VERSE

INCANTATION Page Cooper 63

THE EYRIE 4

WEIRD TALES CLUB 83

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