From the exhibition
Weird Tales — "Drome"
· January 1927

This issue of *Weird Tales* contains several stories across multiple genres. The featured serial "Drome" by John Martin Leahy continues an adventure narrative set in Seattle, where protagonist Bill witnesses his colleague Milton Rhodes receive a mysterious visitor named James W. Scranton during a violent storm. Scranton arrives bearing his grandfather Charles Scranton's 1858 journal documenting a Mount Rainier expedition and reveals knowledge of an old, ongoing scientific mystery connected to the mountain. The issue also features H.P. Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook," Robert E. Howard's Pictish romance, Victor Rousseau's series entry "The Major's Menagerie" about Dr. Ivan Brodsky, George C. Wallis's Jupiter voyage serial "The Star Shell," and William A.P. White's ghost story. Additional content includes poetry and a reprinted dream narrative. The magazine concludes with period advertising for correspondence courses.
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