Magazine of Horror #35

Acme Magazine of Horror, Issue 35 (February) This horror pulp issue contains four fiction pieces. "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith presents a fantasy narrative involving sorcery in the fictional French province; the plot remains incompletely represented in the OCR. "In the Lair of the Space Monsters" by Frank Belknap Long is a science fiction entry (summary unavailable from text). "The Ghenoo" by Stephen Goldin, described as a "Shop" story, features a supernatural hunt. A protagonist whose physical body lies unconscious in a tent pursues the Chenoo, an ice demon, through forest and village—traveling between two mystical "spheres" of existence. The protagonist enlists animal allies to track and confront the creature. "The Altar of Melek Taos," a novelet by G.G. Pendarves, concerns Sir Hugh Willett's wife Evadne, who has been placed under the hypnotic control of Prince Dena, a High Priest serving the god Melek Taos through dark magic and sacrifice. Sir Hugh's secretary Hadur warns that distance cannot break the supernatural bond. The story culminates in a confrontation within a mystical palace featuring fire, sacrificial altars, and occult powers. "The Old City of Jade" by Thomas H. Knight presents an adventure tale set in a war-time shellhole where First Lieutenant meets Cedric Lawrence Baxter. They discover an inexplicably dormant city of bronze men in South America, steal an aircraft, and escape to Quito, where a landing accident injures them both.