Weird Tales (Canadian Edition)

Weird Tales (Vol. 38, No. 4, 1947) This Canadian edition of the pulp magazine features five longer works. The lead novelette is Stephen Grendon's "Mr. George," concerning five-year-old Priscilla, an orphan living with her mother's relatives—Virginia, Adelaide, and Laban Leckett—who stand to inherit her substantial estate ($300,000) after her death. Priscilla grieves for her late guardian, Mr. George, leaving flowers at his grave with a heartfelt note requesting his return. Meanwhile, her predatory relatives discuss the convenient elimination of their young ward. Harold Lawlor's "The Terror in Teakwood" examines a sinister black casket. Eric Frank Russell's "Venturer of the Martian Mimics" explores speculative science fiction. The issue also includes Seabury Quinn's "Hoodooed," Theodore Sturgeon's "Fluff" (involving a vengeful cat), Allison V. Harding's "The Immortal Lancer," Robert Bloch's "Sweets to the Sweet" (about aspiring witches), and Herbert Scanlon's "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe" set in an abandoned house. A poem by Stanton A. Coblentz titled "On a Weird Planet" is also included.