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The Magic Carpet Magazine January 1933

Popular Fiction Publishing Company

1933

Publication type

Periodical Pulp magazine

Publication date: January 1933

Introduction

There was no Howard story in this one, but it contains a letter he wrote, circa November 1932:

Thanks very much for the remarks and quotations in the Souk by which you corroborate the matter of Timour’s wine-bibbing. I welcome and appreciate criticisms in the spirit of Mr. Bell’s, though, as you point out, he chances to be mistaken in the matter of Timour and others. But criticisms of this nature promote discussions helpful and instructive to all. In regard to Moslem drinking, I understand that the Seventeenth Century Tatars of Crimea, before imbibing, spilled a drop of wine from the vessel and drank the remainder, declaring that since the Prophet forbade tasting a drop of wine, they thus obeyed the command. They spilled the drop and drank the rest. Many modern Moslems maintain that they disobey no holy law by drinking brandy and whisky, since the Prophet said nothing about these beverages — proving that Christians are not the only people on earth to wriggle out of laws by technicalities.

Notes

Edited by Farnsworth Wright

Volume 3, number 1.
A continuation of "Oriental Stories" at lower cost.
"The Souk" is a combination editorial and letters to the editor.

You can find this letter and more in the Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: 1930-1932

Edition and production details

Language: English

Edition format: Periodical (Pulp Magazine)
Publication date: January 1933
Pages: 132 including covers
Publisher / imprint: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Cover art: Margareth Brundage
Illustrations: Joseph Doolin
Media details: Adventure House (January 2019), Girasol Collectables (March 2007), Fiction House Press (August 2021)

31 contents entries

Letter to Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1933, "Thanks very much for the remarks . . ."
fep • The Magic Carpet • essay by The Editors essay
Non-REH Content
The Master of Dragons • novelette by H. Bedford-Jones 2 · novelette
"The Master of Dragons" by H. Bedford-Jones
The Master of Dragons • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 2 · artwork
"What Became of Aladdin's Lamp" by Allan Govan
What Became of Aladdin's Lamp • short story by Allan Govan 29 · story
"Kong Beng" by Warren Hastings Miller
What Became of Aladdin's Lamp • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 29 · artwork
"The Dragoman's Pilgrimage" by Otis Adelbert Kline
Kong Beng • short story by Warren Hastings Miller 39 · story
"Ismeddin and the Holy Carpet" by E. Hoffmann Price
Kong Beng • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 39 · artwork
"Face Pidgin" by James W. Bennett
The Dragoman's Pilgrimage • non-genre • [Hamed the Atar] • novelette by Otis Adelbert Kline 54 · novelette
"The Maid of Mir Ammon" by Grace Keon
The Dragoman's Pilgrimage • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 54 · artwork
"The Nanking Road" by Hung Long Tom (poem)
Ismeddin and the Holy Carpet • [Ismeddin] • novelette by E. Hoffmann Price 74 · novelette
"Step Softly, Sahib" by Hugh B. Cave
Ismeddin and the Holy Carpet • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 74 · artwork
The Souk (letter column)
Face Pidgin • short story by James W. Bennett 95 · story
The Maid of Mir Ammon • short story by Grace Keon 103 · story
The Maid of Mir Ammon • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 103 · artwork
The Nanking Road • poem by Frank Owen [as by Hung Long Tom] 112 · poem
Step Softly, Sahib! • short story by Hugh B. Cave 113 · story
The Souk • (1930) • interior artwork by Donald von Gelb 125 · artwork
The Souk (Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1933) • essay by uncredited 125 · essay
Letter (Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1933) • [Letters to Oriental Stories / Magic Carpet Magazine] • essay by Robert E. Howard 126 · essay

Contributors

Farnsworth Wright: Editor
Margaret Brundage: Cover artist
Joseph Doolin: Illustrator
Margareth Brundage: Cover artist
Robert E. Howard: Essayist

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E. Hoffmann Price H. Bedford-Jones Hugh B. Cave Hung Long Tom Otis Adelbert Kline Pulp Warren Hastings Miller