| Title | : | Weird Tales August 1926 |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Facsimile |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 |
| Publication | : | First published August 1, 1926 |
Table of contents:
Abraham Merritt. The Woman of the Wood
Bruce Wallis. The Whistling Monsters
Alanson Skinner. The Tsantsa of Professor Von Rothapfel
H. P. Lovecraft. The Terrible Old Man
Emma-Lindsay Squier. The Door of Hell
August Derleth. The Devil's Pay
Edmond Hamilton. The Monster-God of Mamurth
Guy de Maupassant. The Horla
Wright Field. The Mad Surgeon
G. G. Pendarves. The Devil's Graveyard
Willis Knapp Jones. The Other Vera
Greye La Spina. Fettered
Samuel M. Sargent, Jr. On Canton Road
Bertrande Harry Snell. Starkey Strang
Weird Tales August 1926 Reviews
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A pretty good issue, with the contents bookended by A. Merritt's "The Woman of the Wood," a flowery but effective story of hallucination (maybe) and murder, and part two of Greye la Spina's Fettered. Fettered is a vampire story, something obvious almost immediately to a modern reader and probably to most readers in 1926, that skirts the "revelation" to the point of absurdity, yet it still manages to be an excellent tale. La Spina may be the best writer overall to this point in WT's history. Lovecraft, the ostensible star, is represented in this issue by "The Terrible Old Man," definitely not one of his masterpieces. Other notable contributors are Edmond Hamilton and August Derleth. The classic reprint is "The Horla," by de Maupassant, which I hadn't read in decades and was happy to rediscover as a masterpiece.
