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WEIRD WHISPERINGS
by Schwartz and Weisinger
Horror Stories, a companion weird magazine to Terror Tales, willappear in the middle of December.... The Winford Publications' weirdmagazine forecast in this column some months ago made its bow inNovember under the title, Mystery Novels Magazine, Weird! Strange!!Unusual!!! To judge from the first issue there will appear a completebook-length novel in each number, to be accompanied by three or fourweird-mystery yarns.... Edmond Hamilton deserts science fiction inthe February Weird Tales for a crime story, called "Murder in theGrave".... Clark Ashton Smith does a lot of drawing for his ownamusement, mostly heads of supernatural creatures. One very good oneshows an old man with an elephant's trunk for a nose, ending in thehead of a snake.
A strange and unusual twist to stories about radio will be given ina new story by the author of "Vampires of the Moon," A. W. Bernal,titled "The Man who was Two Men".... Tales of Magic and Mystery, ashort lived weird magazine, published a few yarns by Frank Owen, and anexceptionally good H. P. Lovecraft story, "Cool Air".... An ingenioustale of the distant future, dealing with mechanical companions andsynthetic love, written by Frank Belknap Long, Jr., and entitled "TheBody Masters," will be one of the highlights of the February WT.
For the past few years the Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., of London, hasbeen publishing a collection of weird tale books under the title, TheCreeps Series, a Collection of Uneasy Tales. Included in the seriesso far are: "Powers of Darkness," "Panics," "Monsters," "Nightmares,""Mysteries of Asia," (by Achmed Abdullah), "Quakes," "Horrors,""Terrors," "Devil's Drums," "Veils of Fear," "The Strange Papers of Dr.Blayre," and now in preparation, "Tales of the Grotesque." The bookscontain about 12 stories, each of a distinctly weird nature by suchauthors as Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell, H. R. Wakefield, DouglasNewton, and others. Every year, too, appears a "Not at Nigh