A complete issue · 148 pages · 1926
Weird Tales, Vol. 7, No. 5
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1926 — all 148 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 148 pages · 1926
This issue features a mix of horror, supernatural, and pseudo-scientific fiction. The lead serial "The Devil-Ray" by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. concerns a purple beam of light descending from clouds that brings death to whatever it touches. "The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee" by Arthur J. Burks depicts dreadful happenings in a western gulch with bobcats howling as chorus. Seabury Quinn's "The Dead Hand" describes a bodiless hand floating through a window and seizing a millionaire by the throat. Other offerings include "The Silent Trees" by Frank Owen, "The Man Who Was Saved" by B. W. Sliney about a vast green monster rising from the Pacific, and "Bat's Belfry" by August W. Derleth involving a gruesome discovery in manor vaults. The issue reprints H. B. Marryat's "The Werewolf" and features poetry including work by Charles Baudelaire translated by Clark Ashton Smith. Contributors include Sewell Peaslee Wright and James Cocks.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.