Weird Tales 1928 May
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Publication date: May 1928
Introduction
Contains the story Sea Curse, a tale which starts with a village tragedy. A local girl who lives with her elderly aunt has been seduced and deflowered by a swaggering, drunk sailor.
In despair she drowns herself in the ocean. The sailor mocks her aunt over the girl's washed-up body on the beach. The old aunt retaliates by putting an awful, terrible curse upon the sailor and his mate...and from that moment, the wheels of awful destiny are put into motion.
Notes
Weird Tales Volume 11 Number 5
Canada price C$0.30.
Page numbers run from 577 to 720 excluding covers.
If you like to read a copy of this, click the button.
Edition and production details
- Format
- Pulp
- Publication date
- May 1928
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher / imprint
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Cover art
- Curtis C. Senf
- Illustrations
- See above
1 linked Howard work
- Sea Cursestory
62 contents entries
- "Sea Curse"
- The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 580 · artwork
- Letter to Weird Tales, ca. April 1928, "Mr. Lovecraft’s latest story . . ."
- The Eyrie (Weird Tales, May 1928) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 580 · essay
- Non-REH Content
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by Royal W. Jimerson [as by R. W. Jimerson] 580 · essay
- The Eyrie (letter column)
- The Bat-Men of Thorium (Part 1 of 3) • serial by Bertram Russell 582
- "The Bat-Men of Thorium" (Part 1 of 3) by Bertram Russell by novela
- The Bat-Men of Thorium (Part 1 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 582 · artwork
- "The Skeleton Under the Lamp" by Bassett Morgan
- The Bat-Men of Thorium (Part 1 of 3) [2] • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 591 · artwork
- "The Hand of the Invisible" by E. Irvine Haines
- The Skeleton Under the Lamp • short story by Bassett Morgan 599 · story
- "Riders in the Sky" by Marc R. Schorer & August W. Derleth
- The Skeleton Under the Lamp • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 599 · artwork
- "A Wager in Candlesticks" by Robert T. Griebling
- The Hand of the Invisible • short story by E. Irvine Haines 611 · story
- "Three Coffins" by Arthur J. Burks
- The Hand of the Invisible • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 611 · artwork
- "Folks Used to Believe: The Basilisk" by Alvin F. Harlow (article)
- Sea Curse • [Faring Town] • short story by Robert E. Howard 617 · story
- "The Doomed Treveans" by G. G. Pendarves
- Riders in the Sky • short story by August Derleth and Mark Schorer [as by August W. Derleth and Marc R. Schorer] 621 · story
- "Through the Veil" by Anne M. Bilbro
- A Wager in Candlesticks • short story by Robert T. Griebling 625 · story
- Sonnets of the Midnight Hours by Donald Wandrei "The Hungry Flowers" (poem) "Dream-Horror" (poem)
- A Wager in Candlesticks • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 625 · artwork
- "The Strange People" (Part 3 of 3) by Murray Leinster
- Weird Tales, May 1928 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Weird Tales, November 1924 1924) 636 · artwork
- "The Black Madonna" by A. W. Wyville
- Three Coffins • novelette by Arthur J. Burks 637 · novelette
- "Malchior Makes Magic" by Charles Henry Mackintosh
- Three Coffins • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 637 · artwork
- "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Basilisk • [Folks Used to Believe] • essay by Alvin F. Harlow 656 · essay
- "Clair de Lune" by Minnie Faegre Knox (poem)
- Folks Used to Believe • (1927) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 656 · artwork
- The Doomed Treveans • short story by G. G. Pendarves 657 · story
- The Doomed Treveans • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 657 · artwork
- Through the Veil • short story by Anne M. Bilbro 667 · story
- Through the Veil • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 667 · artwork
- Sonnets of the Midnight Hours • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 674 · artwork
- The Hungry Flowers • [Sonnets of the Midnight Hours • 1] • (1928) • poem by Donald Wandrei 674 · poem
- Dream-Horror • [Sonnets of the Midnight Hours • 2] • poem by Donald Wandrei 674 · poem
- The Strange People (Part 3 of 3) • serial by Murray Leinster 675
- The Strange People (Part 3 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 675 · artwork
- The Black Madonna • non-genre • short story by A. W. Wyville 685 · story
- Malchior Makes Magic • short story by Charles Henry Mackintosh 688 · story
- Weird Tales, May 1928 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Weird Tales, December 1924 [3] 1924) 690 · artwork
- Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne 691 · novelette
- Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 691 · artwork
- Clair de Lune • poem by Minnie Faegre Knox 709 · poem
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by Ralph Carson 711 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by Mrs. Paul Clay 711 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by Cod Young 711 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by Mrs. Leslie Scott 711 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • [Letters to Weird Tales] • essay by Robert E. Howard [as by R. E. Howard] 711 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by E. M. Gunnell 712 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by Edwin Beard 712 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by George C. Engels 712 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, May 1928) • essay by Elmer Klopp 712 · essay
Contributors
- Curtis C. Senf
- Cover artist
- Hugh Rankin, Andrew Brosnatch
- Illustrator
- See above
- Illustrator
Additional related terms
Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.
Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- Weird Tales Volume 11 Number 5
- Publisher
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Date
- May 1928
- Source file
- weirdtalesV11N5-May1928.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Weird Tales 1928 May
- Publisher
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Date
- May 1928