Weird Tales

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Weird Tales 1929 November

Popular Fiction Publishing Company

1929

Material type

Pulp magazine

Publication categories

Pulps: Weird Tales

Publication date: November 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 5
Canada price C$0.30.
Page numbers run from 577 to 720 excluding covers.
Interior art credit for "The Roc Raid" per Jaffrey & Cook The Collector's Index to Weird Tales.

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Edition and production details

Format: Pulp
Publication date: November 1929
Pages: 144
Publisher / imprint: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Cover art: Curtis C. Senf
Illustrations: Se above

1 linked Howard work

Skull-Face story Publications

62 contents entries

"Skull-face" (Part 2)
The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 580 · artwork
To Weird Tales, ca. October 1929, "I have just been reading . . ."
The Eyrie (Weird Tales, November 1929) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 580 · essay
Non-REH Content
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Lester Anderson 580 · essay
The Eyrie (letter column)
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Miss Helen Aiken 580 · essay
"The Gray Killer" by Everil Worrell
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Leroy Price 580 · essay
"The Roc Raid" by George B. Tuttle
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Lilla Price Savino [as by Mrs. Lilla Price Savino] 580 · essay
"The Nightmare Tarn" by Clark Ashton Smith (poem)
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by O. E. Larson 582 · essay
"The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Brown Reed
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Howard Griffin 582 · essay
"The House Without a Mirror" by Seabury Quinn
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by K. W. Hill 582 · essay
"The Haunted Lake" by A. Leslie (poem)
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Robert Franklyn Hencey 582 · essay
"Death-Gate" by Monroe D. McGibeny (poem)
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • [Letters to Weird Tales] • essay by Robert E. Howard 582 · essay
"The Tailed Man of Cornwall" by David H. Keller
Next Month (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by uncredited 583 · essay
"Scarlatti's Bottle" by August W. Derleth
The Gray Killer • novelette by Everil Worrell 584 · novelette
"Whispering Death" by John Impola
The Gray Killer • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 584 · artwork
"Thrice Dead" by Alston Lovejoy
The Gray Killer [2] • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 593 · artwork
"The Bed by the Window" by E. F. Benson
The Roc Raid • novelette by George B. Tuttle 600 · novelette
"Mummy" by Kelsey Percival Kitchel
The Roc Raid • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 600 · artwork
"Lindenborg Pool" by William Morris
Weird Tales, November 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of The Green Scarab 1925) 623 · artwork
The Nightmare Tarn • poem by Clark Ashton Smith 624 · poem
The Curse of Yig • (1929) • short story by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Zealia Brown Reed] 625 · story
The Curse of Yig • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 625 · artwork
Weird Tales, November 1929 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Servants of Satan 1925) 636 · artwork
The House Without a Mirror • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn 637 · novelette
The House Without a Mirror • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 637 · artwork
The Haunted Lake • poem by A. Leslie 658 · poem
Skull-Face (Part 2 of 3) • serial by Robert E. Howard 659
Skull-Face (Part 2 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 659 · artwork
Death-Gate • poem by Monroe D. McGibeny 673 · poem
The Tailed Man of Cornwall • [Tales from Cornwall • 6] • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller] 674 · story
The Tailed Man of Cornwall • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 674 · artwork
Scarlatti's Bottle • short story by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth] 680 · story
Whispering Death • short story by John Impola 683 · story
Whispering Death • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 683 · artwork
Thrice Dead • short story by Alston Lovejoy 694 · story
Weird Tales, November 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, February 1925 1925) 698 · artwork
The Bed by the Window • (1929) • short story by E. F. Benson 699 · story
The Bed by the Window • interior artwork by C. C. Senf 699 · artwork
Mummy • short story by Kelsey Percival Kitchel 706 · story
Weird Tales, November 1929 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, January 1925 [3] 1925) 710 · artwork
Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 711 · artwork
Lindenborg Pool • (1856) • short story by William Morris 711 · story
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Mrs. Edith Beadle 716 · essay
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Bill Griffey 716 · essay
Letter (Weird Tales, November 1929) • essay by Alvin V. Pershing [as by A. V. Pershing] 716 · essay

Contributors

Curtis C. Senf: Cover artist
Hugh Rankin, Andrew Brosnatch , Curtis C. Senf , Doak (Hugh Rankin using a different style): Illustrator
Se above: Illustrator

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Pulp Robert E. Howard Weird Tales

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Howard Works source layer

Title: Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 5
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date: November 1929
Source file: weirdtalesV14N5-November1929.html

REH World editorial layer

Title: Weird Tales 1929 November
Publisher: Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date: November 1929