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Weird Tales 1929 December

Popular Fiction Publishing Company

1929
Publication type
PeriodicalPulp magazine
Contains
Stories

Publication date: December 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 6Canada price C$0.30.
Pages run from 721 to 864 excluding covers.

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Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition format
Pulp
Publication date
December 1929
Pages
144
Publisher / imprint
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Cover art
Hugh Rankin
Illustrations
Se above

1 linked Howard work

57 contents entries

  1. "Skull-face" (Part 3)
  2. Fantaisie d'Antan • poem by Clark Ashton Smith 724 · poem
  3. Non-REH Content
  4. Fantaisie d'Antan • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 724 · artwork
  5. "Fantaisie d'Antan" by Clark Ashton Smith (poem)
  6. The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 726 · artwork
  7. The Eyrie (letter column)
  8. The Eyrie (Weird Tales, December 1929) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 726 · essay
  9. "The Mystery of the Four Husbands" by Gaston Leroux
  10. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by Elmo James 726 · essay
  11. "Children of Ubasti" by Seabury Quinn
  12. Next Month (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by uncredited 727 · essay
  13. "The Gallows Tree" by N. J. O'Neail
  14. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by E. L. Mengshoel 728 · essay
  15. "The Ticking of the Clock" by A. & H. Greatraikes
  16. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by Mrs. M. Sherbank 728 · essay
  17. "Behind the Moon" (Part 1 of 3) by W. Elwyn Backus
  18. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by Ernest H. Ormsbee 728 · essay
  19. "In the Valley" by Bertrande Harry Snell (poem)
  20. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by Gaylord Bell 728 · essay
  21. "The Dancer in the Crystal" by Francis Flagg
  22. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by Albert James Cabral 728 · essay
  23. "The Shuttered Room" by E. F. Benson
  24. The Mystery of the Four Husbands • [Capt. Michel] • short story by Gaston Leroux (trans. of Not' Olympe 1924) 730 · story
  25. "No Other Man" by David H. Keller
  26. The Mystery of the Four Husbands • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 730 · artwork
  27. "The Inheritors" by August W. Derleth
  28. Children of Ubasti • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn 742 · novelette
  29. "The Depths of the Lens by Author:N. R. McFarland
  30. Children of Ubasti • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 742 · artwork
  31. "The Stranger from Kurdistan" by E. Hoffmann Price
  32. The Gallows Tree • short story by N. J. O'Neail 760 · story
  33. "A King in Babylon" by W. E. Henley (poem)
  34. The Gallows Tree • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 760 · artwork
  35. The Ticking of the Clock • short story by A. Greatraikes and H. Greatraikes 766 · story
  36. Weird Tales, December 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Weird Tales, January 1925 1925) 768 · artwork
  37. Behind the Moon (Part 1 of 3) • serial by W. Elwyn Backus 769
  38. Behind the Moon (Part 1 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 769 · artwork
  39. In the Valley • poem by Bertrande Harry Snell 794 · poem
  40. The Dancer in the Crystal • short story by Francis Flagg 795 · story
  41. The Dancer in the Crystal • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 795 · artwork
  42. Weird Tales, December 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, January 1925 [3] 1925) 808 · artwork
  43. Skull-Face (Part 3 of 3) • serial by Robert E. Howard 809
  44. Skull-Face (Part 3 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 809 · artwork
  45. Weird Tales, December 1929 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Weird Tales, March 1925 1925) 825 · artwork
  46. The Shuttered Room • (1929) • short story by E. F. Benson 826 · story
  47. The Shuttered Room • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 826 · artwork
  48. Weird Tales, December 1929 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of The Green Scarab 1925) 834 · artwork
  49. No Other Man • [Tales from Cornwall • 7] • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller] 835 · story
  50. No Other Man • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak] 835 · artwork
  51. The Inheritors • short story by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth] 842 · story
  52. The Depths of the Lens • short story by N. R. McFarland 845 · story
  53. Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 848 · artwork
  54. The Stranger from Kurdistan • [Ismeddin] • (1925) • short story by E. Hoffmann Price 848 · story
  55. A King in Babylon • (1888) • poem by W. E. Henley 852 · poem
  56. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by Miss Betty Bogschutz 854 · essay
  57. Letter (Weird Tales, December 1929) • essay by M. T. Oakbough 854 · essay

Contributors

Hugh Rankin
Cover artist, Illustrator
Andrew Brosnatch
Illustrator
Doak
Illustrator
Gaylord Bell
Essayist
Elmo James
Essayist

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PulpRobert E. HowardWeird Tales

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Bibliographic source layer

Title
Weird Tales Volume 14 Number 6
Publisher
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date
December 1929
Source file
weirdtalesV14N6-December1929.html

REH World editorial layer

Title
Weird Tales 1929 December
Publisher
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date
December 1929
Source provenance

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