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Brilliant Stori W ERD TALES has obtained a wealth of utterly bizarre and original stories, and the next few issues will offer a superb feast of imagina- tive reading—scientific tales that plumb the future with prophetic insight; tales of other planets, and the cosmic spaces between the stars; goosefiesh tales of unutterable horror; uncanny stories of werewolves and black magic; graveyard tales; ghost-stories such as the Southern negro tells around 2 watermelon patch at night; thrill-tales of weird action; tales of the bizarre and unusual; fascinating orientales; gripping Chinese and Egyptian mystery tales; stories that take the reader far away from the humdrum environment

of everyday life. Among the gems in the next few issues are:

THE FOOT FETISH, By Howard R. Marsh

A story of vivid action, Chinese fanatics from the hill-country, and the ab- ia pre of a beautiful American girl who bears on her foot the sacred rthmark.

SI URAG OF THE TAIL, By Oscar Cook

Terrific story of a man-eating orchid in the wilds of Borneo—a mystery tale of weird adventures in the jungle wilderness.

THE LIFE SERUM, By Paul S. Powers

Startling pseudo-scientific yarn about a great physician who passed the frontiers of Hfe and came back again—a surgeon who thought he had solved the secret of death.

SPIDER-BITE, By Robert S. Carr

A tale of great white Egyptian tomb-spiders, resurrected mummies, cata- leptic trances and precious jewele—a story of eory thrills.

THE DEVIL’S GRAVEYARD, By G. G. Pendarves

. Giles the Thruster comes back from the Pit to fulfil an ancient curse, accompanied by the Four Ancients and Gaffarel the Mighty.

THE HORROR AT RED HOOK, By H. P. Lovecraft

_ Age-old horror is a hydra with a thousand heads, and the cults of dark- ness are rooted in blasphemies deeper than the well of Democritus.

THE DEVIL-RAY, By Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.

A_ purple beam of light shot from the clouds and devastated the country- side, bringing instant death to whatever it touched.

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