The Dream Snake is a terrifying tale of a man who has had a recurring dream about being pursued by a sinister, unseen giant snake which gets nearer and nearer to him every night….

Also in this issue, the famous ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ by H. P. Lovecraft.

Contents

  • 149 • The Ghost-Table • (1923) • short story by Elliott O’Donnell
  • 149 •  The Ghost-Table • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 159 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 159 •  The Call of Cthulhu • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 179 • The Shadow on the Moor • short story by Stuart Strauss
  • 179 •  The Shadow on the Moor • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 188 • The Curse of Alabad and Ghinu and Aratza • short story by Wilfred Blanch Talman
  • 188 •  The Curse of Alabad and Ghinu and Aratza • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 193 • Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd. • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn
  • 193 •  Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd. • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 212 •  Weird Tales, February 1928 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Six Bearded Men 1924)
  • 213 • The Purple Sea • short story by Frank Owen
  • 213 •  The Purple Sea • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 220 •  Weird Tales, February 1928 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of The Green Scarab 1925)
  • 221 • The Giant World (Part 2 of 3) • serial by Ray Cummings (book publication as Explorers Into Infinity 1965)
  • 221 •  The Giant World (Part 2 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 236 • The Three Witches • poem by Ernest Dowson
  • 237 • The Isle of the Fairy Morgana • short story by John Martin Leahy
  • 237 •  The Isle of the Fairy Morgana • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 252 • The Barnacle Goose • [Folks Used to Believe] • essay by Alvin F. Harlow
  • 252 •  Folks Used to Believe • (1927) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
  • 253 • The Mist-Monster • short story by Granville S. Hoss
  • 257 • The Dream Snake • short story by Robert E. Howard
  • 261 • Clarimonde • (1882) • novelette by Théophile Gautier (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
  • 281 •  Weird Tales, February 1928 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, March 1925 1925)
  • 282 •  The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch
  • 282 • The Eyrie (Weird Tales, February 1928) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor
  • 282 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 283 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by Charles M. Walker
  • 283 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth]
  • 283 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by M. Artine Miller
  • 283 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by J. T. Ballew
  • 283 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by various
  • 283 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by Ralph McCormack
  • 284 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by Lilla Price Savino
  • 284 •  Letter (Weird Tales, February 1928) • essay by Nictzin Dyalhis
Publisher :Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Year :February 1928
Replica by:Girasol September 2008
Format :Pulp
Pages :144
Cover :Curtis C. Senf
Illustrations :See above

Notes

Weird Tales Volume 11 Number 2
Canada price C$0.30.
Perfect bound, wraps. Pages numbered from 145 through 288; page numbers do not include covers.
Cover illustration is for “The Ghost-Table”.
“Clarimonde” is from “La Morte Amoureuse”, translated from the French by Lafcadio Hearn.

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Weird Tales 1928 February

The Dream Snake is a terrifying tale of a man who has had a recurring dream about being pursued by a sinister, unseen giant snake which gets nearer and nearer to him every night….

Tags: H. P. Lovecraft / Pulp / Robert E. Howard / Weird Tales