Bran Mak Morn, King of the Picts, vows vengeance on Titus Sulla, a Roman governor, after witnessing the crucifixion of a fellow Pict. He seeks forbidden aid from the Worms of the Earth, a race of creatures who Bran Mak Morn’s ancestors banished from their kingdom centuries ago. They were once men, but millennia of living underground caused them to become monstrous and semi-reptilian.
Searching for a contact with these creatures, Bran Mak Morn encounters a witch who lives in a secluded hut, shunned by her neighbors, who was born from a sexual encounter between one of the “Worms” and a human woman. The witch’s price for helping him is “one night of love” which her human-half craves – as men in general are repelled by her reptilian traits. Bran Mak Morn, though also himself repelled, agrees to pay the price. In exchange, she tells him of a barrow where “The Black Stone”, a religious artifact of great importance to the “Worms”, is hidden.
Contents
- 580 • Buccaneers of Venus (Part 1 of 6) • [Grandon • 3] • serial by Otis Adelbert Kline (book publication as The Port of Peril 1949)
- 580 • Buccaneers of Venus (Part 1 of 6) • interior artwork by J. Allen St. John
- 604 • Worms of the Earth • [Bran Mak Morn] • novelette by Robert E. Howard
- 604 • Worms of the Earth • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox
- 625 • The Bleeding Mummy • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn
- 625 • The Bleeding Mummy • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox
- 645 • Spawn of the Shadows • novelette by William H. Pope
- 645 • Spawn of the Shadows • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox
- 660 • The Whistle • short story by Ralph Milne Farley
- 661 • The Whistle • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox
- 668 • Last Jest • poem by Kirk Mashburn
- 669 • Vampire Village • short story by Edmond Hamilton [as by Hugh Davidson]
- 669 • Vampire Village • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox
- 678 • Penalty • poem by Cristel Hastings
- 679 • The Phantom Hand (Part 5 of 5) • serial by Victor Rousseau
- 679 • The Phantom Hand (Part 5 of 5) • interior artwork by T. Wyatt Nelson
- 693 • The Supernumerary Corpse • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
- 698 • This Side of the Curtain • short story by Renier Wyers
- 704 • Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
- 704 • Frankenstein (Part 7 of 8) • [Frankenstein] • serial by Mary Shelley (book publication as Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus 1818) [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
- 712 • The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch
- 712 • The Eyrie (Weird Tales, November 1932) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor
- 712 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Mrs. Tom Burnell
- 712 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Frederick John Walsen
- 712 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Harold Dunbar
- 712 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Lester Anderson
- 712 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Robert Bloch
- 712 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Claude H. Cameron
- 714 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price
- 714 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Eduard L. Klein
- 714 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Freda Crusius
- 714 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Elsie Meyer
- 714 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Mrs. Helen Sontag
- 715 • Coming Next Month (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by uncredited
- 716 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by Hazel Portelli
- 716 • Letter (Weird Tales, November 1932) • essay by E. L. Mengshoel
| Publisher : | Popular Fiction Publishing Company |
| Year : | November 1932 |
| Replica by: | Girasol September 2012 |
| Format : | Pulp |
| Pages : | 144 |
| Cover : | J. Allen St. John |
| Illustrations : | Se above |
Notes
Weird Tales Volume 20 Number 5
Perfect bound, wraps. Page numbers do not include covers.
Page numbers run from 577 through 720.
