Cover image unavailableThe Magic Carpet Magazine January 1934
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Publication date: January 1934
Introduction
The Magic Carpet Magazine Volume 4 Number 1. This issue actually contains two Howard stories. 'Alleys of Darkness' where he used the pseudonym Patrick Ervin and 'The Shadow of the Vulture'.
"The Shadow of the Vulture" is a short story, first published in The Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934. The story introduces the character of Red Sonya of Rogatino, who later became the inspiration for the popular character Red Sonja, archetype of the chainmail-bikini clad female warrior. The latter has little in common other than the name and that she is a warrior.
Unlike Howard's better-known fantasy work, "The Shadow of the Vulture" is historical fiction, set in the 16th century. It uses the career of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (also known as Sultan Suleiman I), the aftermath of the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the later Siege of Vienna of 1529 as a backdrop for imaginary characters and events.
Notes
Edited by Farnsworth Wright
Page numbers do not include covers. Page numbers are continuous through volume; this issue starts on p. 513.
"The Souk" is a combined editorial and letters to the editor.
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Edition and production details
- Language
- English
- Edition format
- Periodical (Pulp Magazine)
- Publication date
- January 1934
- Pages
- 132
- Publisher / imprint
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Cover art
- Margaret Brundage
- Illustrations
- Jayem Wilcox
- Media details
- Wildeside Press (January 2008), Girasol Collectables (November 2007)
2 linked Howard works
- Alleys of Darkness story Howard writing Publications
- The Shadow of the Vulture story Howard writing Publications
34 contents entries
- "Alleys of Darkness" by Patrick Ervin
- "The Shadow of the Vulture"
- Non-REH Content
- "Speed Planes for Moscow" by S. Gordon Gurwit
- "The River of Perfumes" by Warren Hastings Miller
- "Five Merchants Who Met in a Tea-House" by Frank Owen
- "The Little Affair of the Eiffel Tower" by Arthur Morris Crosby
- "Passport to the Desert" by G. G. Pendarves
- "The Spider Woman" by Seabury Quinn
- "Hindoo Student's Prayer" by Katharine C. Turner (poem)
- The Souk (letter column)
- "The Mayor's Four Chins" by James W. Bennett
- "Rivers" by Hung Long Tom (poem)
- Speed Planes for Moscow • short story by S. Gordon Gurwit 515 · story
- Speed Planes for Moscow • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox 515 · artwork
- The River of Perfumes • short story by Warren Hastings Miller 530 · story
- The River of Perfumes • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox 530 · artwork
- Alleys of Darkness • [Dennis Dorgan] • short story by Robert E. Howard [as by Patrick Ervin] 541 · story
- Alleys of Darkness • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox 541 · artwork
- The Shadow of the Vulture • non-genre • novelette by Robert E. Howard 551 · novelette
- The Shadow of the Vulture • interior artwork by uncredited 551 · artwork
- Five Merchants Who Met in a Tea-House • short story by Frank Owen 577 · story
- The Little Affair of the Eiffel Tower • short fiction by Arthur Morris Crosby 583 · story
- The Little Affair of the Eiffel Tower • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox 583 · artwork
- Passport to the Desert • novelette by G. G. Pendarves 594 · novelette
- Passport to the Desert • interior artwork by uncredited 595 · artwork
- The Spider Woman • novelette by Seabury Quinn 613 · novelette
- The Spider Woman • interior artwork by Jayem Wilcox 613 · artwork
- Hindoo Student's Prayer • poem by Katharine C. Turner 632 · poem
- The Souk (Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934) • essay by uncredited 633 · essay
- Letter (Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934) • essay by Bruce Bryan 633 · essay
- Letter (Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934) • essay by Thomas S. Gardner 634 · essay
- The Mayor's Four Chins • short story by James W. Bennett 635 · story
- Rivers • poem by Frank Owen [as by Hung Long Tom] 640 · poem
Contributors
- Farnsworth Wright
- Editor
- Margaret Brundage
- Cover artist
- Jayem Wilcox
- Illustrator
- Bruce Bryan
- Essayist
- Thomas S. Gardner
- Essayist
Characters / Featuring
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