The Popular Weekly, May 26, 1928

# Museum Catalog Note

This May 1928 issue of The Popular features several serials and short stories. The complete novel "Scare!" by Henry C. Rowland centers on Anson Johns, a wealthy Yale-educated naturalist and wildlife photographer on the Maine coast. Examining a photograph he captured, Johns discovers discrepancies suggesting interference by another animal at his camera. The narrative establishes tensions surrounding Johns's visit to the cabin of Nona Williams—a young married woman whose husband has been absent for a month—and the impending arrival of her cousin Iris Lloyd, described as extraordinarily attractive to men. Also in this issue: Roy Norton's two-part serial "Possession" involving Captain Drake and a mysterious letter; W. B. M. Ferguson's "The Crimson Rambler" (Part I), described as an "armored ghost from the Middle Ages" story; short fiction including tales of conflict in the Southwest and the Florida Everglades; and Dane Coolidge's five-part serial "War Paint" (Part III), concerning a cattle-war dispute.