by Schwartz and Weisinger
_Horror Stories_, a companion weird magazine to _Terror Tales_, will
appear in the middle of December.... The Winford Publications' weird
magazine forecast in this column some months ago made its bow in
November under the title, _Mystery Novels Magazine, Weird! Strange!!
Unusual!!!_ To judge from the first issue there will appear a complete
book-length novel in each number, to be accompanied by three or four
weird-mystery yarns.... Edmond Hamilton deserts science fiction in
the February _Weird Tales_ for a crime story, called "Murder in the
Grave".... Clark Ashton Smith does a lot of drawing for his own
amusement, mostly heads of supernatural creatures. One very good one
shows an old man with an elephant's trunk for a nose, ending in the
head of a snake.
A strange and unusual twist to stories about radio will be given in
a new story by the author of "Vampires of the Moon," A. W. Bernal,
titled "The Man who was Two Men".... _Tales of Magic and Mystery_, a
short lived weird magazine, published a few yarns by Frank Owen, and an
exceptionally good H. P. Lovecraft story, "Cool Air".... An ingenious
tale of the distant future, dealing with mechanical companions and
synthetic love, written by Frank Belknap Long, Jr., and entitled "The
Body Masters," will be one of the highlights of the February WT.
For the past few years the Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., of London, has
been publishing a collection of weird tale books under the title, The
Creeps Series, a Collection of Uneasy Tales. Included in the series
so far are: "Powers of Darkness," "Panics," "Monsters," "Nightmares,"
"Mysteries of Asia," (by Achmed Abdullah), "Quakes," "Horrors,"
"Terrors," "Devil's Drums," "Veils of Fear," "The Strange Papers of Dr.
Blayre," and now in preparation, "Tales of the Grotesque." The books
contain about 12 stories, each of a distinctly weird nature by such
authors as Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell, H. R. Wakefield, Douglas
Newton, and others. Every year, too, appears a "Not at Night" series,
edited by Christine Campbell Thomson, containing a collection of the
best weird stories published during the year, the majority being from
_Weird Tales_.
Paul Ernst's three part novel, "Rulers of the Future," relating what
the world will be like millions of years from now, and carrying the
heroes of the story thru the whole universe with the speed of light,
will be published starting with the January _Weird Tales_.... "The
Red Room," by H. G. Wells, is the most often plagiarized weird story,
according to Farnsworth Wright, and "The Damned Thing," by Bierce is
another plot often seized upon.... In the February _Weird_ will appear
the first of Seabury Quinn's new series dealing with Thomas Eldridge
Carter, investigator for the Grand Central Life Assurance Company,
called "The Web of Living Death."
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