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Weird Tales 1929 October

Popular Fiction Publishing Company

Publication type
Contains

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

Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 4
Canada price C$0.30.
Page numbers run from 433 to 576 excluding covers.

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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

58 contents entries

  1. "Skull-face" (Part 1)
  2. The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 436 · artwork
  3. Non-REH Content
  4. The Eyrie (Weird Tales, October 1929) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 436 · essay
  5. The Eyrie (letter column)
  6. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Mrs. Joseph C. Murphy 436 · essay
  7. "The Woman with the Velvet Collar" by Gaston Leroux
  8. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price 436 · essay
  9. "In the Toils of the Black Kiva" by D. D. Sharp
  10. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Thomas S. Rice 436 · essay
  11. "The Silver Countess" by Seabury Quinn
  12. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by A. Merritt 438 · essay
  13. "Folks Used to Believe: The Roc" by Alvin F. Harlow (article)
  14. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Rev. Hubert S. Stafford 438 · essay
  15. "The Witch-Ball" by E. F. Benson
  16. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Richmond E. Myers 438 · essay
  17. "The Battle of the Toads" by David H. Keller
  18. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by William Bradfield 438 · essay
  19. "Nyctalops" by Clark Ashton Smith (poem)
  20. Next Month (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by uncredited 439 · essay
  21. "Outside the Universe" (Part 4 of 4) by Edmond Hamilton
  22. The Woman with the Velvet Collar • [Capt. Michel] • short story by Gaston Leroux (trans. of La femme au collier de velours 1924) 440 · story
  23. "Fate" by Thelma E. Johnson (poem)
  24. The Woman with the Velvet Collar • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 440 · artwork
  25. "The Gray Lady" by Flavia Richardson
  26. Skull-Face (Part 1 of 3) • serial by Robert E. Howard 450
  27. "The Palace of the Dead" by Robert Peery
  28. Skull-Face (Part 1 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 450 · artwork
  29. "The Phantom Barber" by E. W. Mayo
  30. In the Toils of the Black Kiva • short story by D. D. Sharp 473 · story
  31. "The Scourge of Egypt" by Arlton Eadie
  32. In the Toils of the Black Kiva • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 473 · artwork
  33. "Transformation" by Harvey W. Flink (poem)
  34. Weird Tales, October 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, March 1925 1925) 480 · artwork
  35. "The Lost Room" by Fitz-James O'Brien
  36. The Silver Countess • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn 481 · novelette
  37. The Silver Countess • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 481 · artwork
  38. Folks Used to Believe • (1927) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 501 · artwork
  39. The Roc • [Folks Used to Believe] • essay by Alvin F. Harlow 501 · essay
  40. The Witch-Ball • (1928) • short story by E. F. Benson 502 · story
  41. The Witch-Ball • interior artwork by Quindaro 502 · artwork
  42. Weird Tales, October 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of The Desert Lich 1924) 508 · artwork
  43. The Battle of the Toads • [Tales from Cornwall • 5] • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller] 509 · story
  44. The Battle of the Toads • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 509 · artwork
  45. Nyctalops • poem by Clark Ashton Smith 516 · poem
  46. Outside the Universe (Part 4 of 4) • [Interstellar Patrol • 4] • serial by Edmond Hamilton 517
  47. Outside the Universe (Part 4 of 4) • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 517 · artwork
  48. Fate • poem by Thelma E. Johnson 537 · poem
  49. The Gray Lady • short story by Christine Campbell Thomson [as by Flavia Richardson] 538 · story
  50. The Palace of the Dead • short story by Robert Peery 543 · story
  51. The Phantom Barber • short story by E. W. Mayo 548 · story
  52. The Scourge of Egypt • short story by Arlton Eadie 549 · story
  53. The Scourge of Egypt • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 549 · artwork
  54. Transformation • poem by Harvey Wagner Flink [as by Harvey W. Flink] 558 · poem
  55. Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 559 · artwork
  56. The Lost Room • (1858) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien 559 · story
  57. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Martin M. Laibow 570 · essay
  58. Letter (Weird Tales, October 1929) • essay by Jack Darrow 570 · essay

Contributors

Hugh Rankin
Cover artist, Illustrator
Andrew Brosnatch
Illustrator
Quindaro
Illustrator
Doak
Illustrator
Jack Darrow
Essayist
A. Merritt
Essayist

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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
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