Weird Tales, Vol. IX, No. 6

About this issue

This issue presents a diverse collection of supernatural and scientific fiction. Featured is Greye La Spina's "A Suitor from the Shades," a ghost story concerning a lover who returns from beyond the grave, and the first installment of Eli Colter's "The Dark Chrysalis," described as an "epic of the microbe-hunters" examining cancer through scientific narrative. Other stories include Charles Ford's "The Fourth Dimension," featuring a canoe accident and spectral experience; Wilford Allen's "The Arctic Death," depicting a lethal cold sweeping from the north; and Robert S. Carr's "Fog-Faces." Later entries include Henry S. Whitehead's "The Left Eye," combining crime, retribution, and giant spiders; Charlton Lawrence Edholm's "The Man Who Was Damned," concerning supernatural torment; and Edna Bell Seward's "The Land of Creeping Death," set among headhunting savages in India. Ray Cummings concludes his three-part space voyage serial "Explorers Into Infinity." The issue also includes Victor Rousseau's tenth installment of Dr. Ivan Brodsky stories and Turgenieff's reprinted "The Song of Triumphant Love."