Weird Tales, Vol. 12, No. 6

Catalog Entry: Weird Tales, December 1928 This issue of Weird Tales features diverse supernatural and horror fiction. Seabury Quinn contributes "The Chapel of Mystic Horror," a tale of Jules de Grandin encountering dread temple rites afflicting the countryside when he visits an American country house—actually a reconstructed medieval Cypriot monastery. Paul Ernst offers "Beyond Power of Man," concerning a strange monster and a haunted house; George Fielding Eliot provides "The Copper Bowl," set in China involving torture through rat, heat, and a copper bowl. August W. Derleth's "The Statement of Justin Parker" features African pygmies using blow-guns to discharge disease-carrying microbes. The issue includes the first installment of Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.'s "The Isle of Lost Souls," a serial involving Fourth Dimension exploration, Russian Tsar treasure, and Bakelief Island. Stuart Strauss's "The Soul Tube" and Henry S. Whitehead's "The Cult of the Skull" round out the fiction, along with work by Robert E. Howard, H. Warner Munn, and Jack Snow. The issue concludes with W. C. Morrow's reprint "The Monster-Maker," detailing a surgeon's uncanny experiment, and period verse contributions.