Magazine of Horror #17 (volume 3 number 5).

Contains the short story DERMOD’S BANE. Originally written and submitted to Ghost Stories magazine by Howard in 1929. The story was rejected by Ghost Stories, and then disappeared until Glenn Lord found it in a trunk full of manuscripts in 1964. First published in Magazine of Horror #17 in 1967.

Contents

• 4 • A Sense of Crawling • short story by Robert Edmond Alter
• 14 • The Laughing Duke • (1932) • novelette by Wallace West
• 31 •  The Laughing Duke • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin [as by Doolin]
• 33 • The Reckoning (Magazine of Horror, Fall 1967) • [The Reckoning (Magazine of Horror)] • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes [as by uncredited]
• 34 • Dermod’s Bane • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 39 • The Editor’s Page (Magazine of Horror, Fall 1967) • [Editorial (Magazine of Horror)] • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes [as by uncredited]
• 40 • Introduction (The Spell of the Sword) • essay by Sam Moskowitz
• 42 • The Spell of the Sword • (1898) • short story by Frank Aubrey
• 54 • “Williamson” • [Gerald Canevin] • (1946) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 70 • The Curse of Amen-Ra • (1932) • novella by Victor Rousseau
• 98 •  The Curse of Amen-Ra • interior artwork by Amos Sewell [as by Sewell]
• 127 • Wolves of Darkness (excerpt) • short fiction by Jack Williamson

Notes

Edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes

“Vol. 3, No. 5, Fall 1967 (whole number 17)” from indicia.
Cover art is credited in ToC.
Each story is preceded by a short introduction, presumably by Robert A. W. Lowndes, except for “The Spell of the Sword” whose introduction is credited to Sam Moskowitz.
Pp. 129-130 consists of a “Reader’s Preference Page”, allowing readers to order this issue’s stories from best to worst.