Ushering in a new year of WEIRD TALES, the January issue carries a fine sifting of tales by your most favored anthors. Yet-murderer though he is!-you will feel great sympathy for this man. Judson Talley pays-every penny of the cost to the withered phantom of his elderly, revengeful wife!Īn Eastern saying, an Arab proverb, asks, "Who can escape what is written on his brow from the beginning?" And Judson Talley did not escape. For he had married for money and it is a Western saying that he who marries for money must pay. It is the tale of a man whose soul is on the rack all the days of his life-and who passes, tortured, into eternity. And it is whispered that, at the last, they go down into the sea-and there fulfill their ancient pact with Dagon, bestial fish-god of drowned Atlantis!īe certain that you do not miss this novelette-a drama positively brimming over with menacing suspense - by the great Howard Phillips Lovecraft! What monstrousness overshadows the decayed seaport town of Innsmouth-a town which all normal folks shun like a plague? What gruesome bargain can have been made by the ancestors of Inns mouth's inhabitants? For these people, strangely fishlike in appearance, never die they merely DISAPPEAR. After the Silence of the Centuries-a Man Whose Brain Holds All the Wisdom of the Ages Comes to Our Own Time!
A Story Book Character Pulls a Highly Unpleasant Little Trick on His Creator What Would YOU Do if You Become Whatever You Thought You Were.? The Merry Monarch Pits His Wits Against the Black Magic of the Puritans!
A Tremendously Fat Man Vanishes Like an Illusion in a Distorting Mirror! Who Was Half Beast, Half Human Being-and Wholly Damned! In Never Ending Rhythm-a Savage, Ceaseless Chant Floated Across the Slimey Surface of that Lake!
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