Weird Tales 1929 October
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Publication date: October 1929
Introduction
Skull-Face is a fantasy novella by American writer Robert E. Howard, which appeared as a serial in Weird Tales, beginning in October 1929, and ending in December, 1929. The story stars a character called Steve Costigan but this is not Howard's recurring character, Sailor Steve Costigan. The story is clearly influenced by Sax Rohmer's opus Fu Manchu but substitutes the main Asian villain with a resuscitated Atlantean necromancer (similar to Kull's bit character Thulsa Doom) sitting at the center of a web of crime and intrigue meant to end White/Western world domination with the help of Asian/semite/African peoples and to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (said to lie dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.
Notes
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Edition and production details
- Language
- English
- Edition format
- Pulp
- Publication date
- October 1929
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher / imprint
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Cover art
- Hugh Rankin
- Illustrations
- Se above
1 linked Howard work
- Skull-Face story Howard writing Publications
58 contents entries
- "Skull-face" (Part 1)
- The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 436 · artwork
- Non-REH Content
- The Eyrie (Weird Tales, October 1929) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 436 · essay
- The Eyrie (letter column)
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Mrs. Joseph C. Murphy 436 · essay
- "The Woman with the Velvet Collar" by Gaston Leroux
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price 436 · essay
- "In the Toils of the Black Kiva" by D. D. Sharp
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Thomas S. Rice 436 · essay
- "The Silver Countess" by Seabury Quinn
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by A. Merritt 438 · essay
- "Folks Used to Believe: The Roc" by Alvin F. Harlow (article)
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Rev. Hubert S. Stafford 438 · essay
- "The Witch-Ball" by E. F. Benson
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Richmond E. Myers 438 · essay
- "The Battle of the Toads" by David H. Keller
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by William Bradfield 438 · essay
- "Nyctalops" by Clark Ashton Smith (poem)
- Next Month (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by uncredited 439 · essay
- "Outside the Universe" (Part 4 of 4) by Edmond Hamilton
- The Woman with the Velvet Collar • [Capt. Michel] • short story by Gaston Leroux (trans. of La femme au collier de velours 1924) 440 · story
- "Fate" by Thelma E. Johnson (poem)
- The Woman with the Velvet Collar • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 440 · artwork
- "The Gray Lady" by Flavia Richardson
- Skull-Face (Part 1 of 3) • serial by Robert E. Howard 450
- "The Palace of the Dead" by Robert Peery
- Skull-Face (Part 1 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 450 · artwork
- "The Phantom Barber" by E. W. Mayo
- In the Toils of the Black Kiva • short story by D. D. Sharp 473 · story
- "The Scourge of Egypt" by Arlton Eadie
- In the Toils of the Black Kiva • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 473 · artwork
- "Transformation" by Harvey W. Flink (poem)
- Weird Tales, October 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, March 1925 1925) 480 · artwork
- "The Lost Room" by Fitz-James O'Brien
- The Silver Countess • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn 481 · novelette
- The Silver Countess • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 481 · artwork
- Folks Used to Believe • (1927) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 501 · artwork
- The Roc • [Folks Used to Believe] • essay by Alvin F. Harlow 501 · essay
- The Witch-Ball • (1928) • short story by E. F. Benson 502 · story
- The Witch-Ball • interior artwork by Quindaro 502 · artwork
- Weird Tales, October 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of The Desert Lich 1924) 508 · artwork
- The Battle of the Toads • [Tales from Cornwall • 5] • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller] 509 · story
- The Battle of the Toads • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 509 · artwork
- Nyctalops • poem by Clark Ashton Smith 516 · poem
- Outside the Universe (Part 4 of 4) • [Interstellar Patrol • 4] • serial by Edmond Hamilton 517
- Outside the Universe (Part 4 of 4) • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 517 · artwork
- Fate • poem by Thelma E. Johnson 537 · poem
- The Gray Lady • short story by Christine Campbell Thomson [as by Flavia Richardson] 538 · story
- The Palace of the Dead • short story by Robert Peery 543 · story
- The Phantom Barber • short story by E. W. Mayo 548 · story
- The Scourge of Egypt • short story by Arlton Eadie 549 · story
- The Scourge of Egypt • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 549 · artwork
- Transformation • poem by Harvey Wagner Flink [as by Harvey W. Flink] 558 · poem
- Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 559 · artwork
- The Lost Room • (1858) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien 559 · story
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Martin M. Laibow 570 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Jack Darrow 570 · essay
Contributors
- Alvin F. Harlow
- Essayist
- Hugh Rankin
- Cover artist, Illustrator
- Andrew Brosnatch
- Illustrator
- Quindaro
- Illustrator
- Doak
- Illustrator
- Mrs. Joseph C. Murphy
- Essayist
- Martin M. Laibow
- Essayist
- E. Hoffmann Price
- Essayist
- Jack Darrow
- Essayist
- Thomas S. Rice
- Essayist
- A. Merritt
- Essayist
- Rev. Hubert S. Stafford
- Essayist
- Richmond E. Myers
- Essayist
- William Bradfield
- Essayist
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Bibliographic source layer
- Title
- Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 4
- Publisher
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Date
- October 1929
- Source file
- weirdtalesV14N4-October1929.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Weird Tales 1929 October
- Publisher
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Date
- October 1929