Weird Tales, December 1928

Contents of Weird Tales, December 1928

This issue features horror and weird fiction, edited by Farnsworth Wright. The lead story is "The Chapel of Mystic Horror" by Seabury Quinn, continuing adventures of Jules de Grandin, a psychic detective. The tale depicts occult rites of the Knights Templar bringing terror to the countryside around an Italian villa transplanted to America. Other fiction includes "Beyond Power of Man" by Paul Ernst—a haunted house tale involving a strange creature; "The Copper Bowl" by George Fielding Eliot, set in China with torture themes; "The Statement of Justin Parker" by August W. Derleth, featuring African pygmies wielding weaponized microbes; and "The Isle of Lost Souls" (Part 1) by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., a serial about Fourth Dimension adventures and Russian Tsar treasure. Additional stories include "The Soul Tube" by Stuart Strauss and "The Cult of the Skull" by Henry S. Whitehead. The issue contains verse contributions and reprints "The Monster-Maker" by W. C. Morrow. Authors represented include Robert E. Howard, H. Warner Munn, and Jack Snow.