Witchcraft & Sorcery Volume 1 Number 5
Publication date: February 1971
Introduction
Witchcraft & Sorcery Volume 1 Number 5. Prior to this issue, it was published by Camelot Publishing Company as Coven 13. The company was bought by Fantasy Publishing Company and the name was changed to Witchcraft & Sorcery.
This issue contains MISTRESS OF DEATH and the poem "Musings". Mistress of Death features Agnes de Chastillon. This is the only Dark Agnes story to include a fantasy element, in the form of a sorcerer. It is not written to the same standard as the two stories Howard completed, and features some departures from the established character, making her more stereotypically feminine. The story was not finished by Howard and he wrote two drafts. The story in this issue is based on the second unfinished draft and completed by Gerald W. Page.
Notes
Formerly "Coven 13", purchased from founders.
Volume 1, number 5.
Saddle stapled, wraps.
Page numbers do not include covers.
Cover illustration for "The Momentary Ghost"
"Jade Pagoda" contains Price's reminisces about Ralph Milne Farley.
Credit for calligraphy for "Jade Pagoda" given in a letter from E. Hoffmann Price in issue #6.
Editor: Gerald W. Page
Art Director: Jerry Burge
Publisher: William L. Crawford
"Mistress of Death" is illustrated by Jeff Jones
Edition and production details
- Language
- English
- Edition format
- Magazine
- Publication date
- February 1971
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher / imprint
- Fantasy Publishing Company
- Cover art
- Burge
- Illustrations
- D. Bruce Berry, Burge, Stephen Fabian, Steve Fritz, Robert E. Jennings, Jeff Jones, and Tim Kirk.
2 linked Howard works
- Mistress of Death story Howard writing Publications
- Musings (1, "The little poets . . .") verse Poetry Publications
67 contents entries
- "Mistress of Death" (Completed by Gerald W. Page) I llustrated by Jeff Jones
- "Musings" (1, poem)
- Non-REH Content
- "The Great Pyramid of Gaza" by L. Sprague de Camp (poem)
- "Editor's Grimoire" by Gerald W. Page
- "The Dark Door" by Leo P. Kelley
- "House of Evil" by Pauline C. Smith
- "The Momentary Ghost" by Carleton Grindle
- "Portrait of Things to Come" by Leon Zeldis
- "The Ideas" by Edith Ogutsch and Ross Rocklynne
- "Four Letters to Clark Ashton Smith" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Ghost Tour" by Andre Norton
- "Wind Magic" by Edmund Shirlan
- "The Forgotten" by Lin Carter (poem)
- "Hate" by Terri Pinckard
- "Jade Pagoda" by E. Hoffmann Price
- "The Rat and the Snake" by A. E. van Vogt
- Department of Pointed Tales 1. "Bruce" by Saliitha Grey 2. "Embarkation of Evil" by W. S. Cobun 3. "Smoke" by Leo Tifton
- "Tower of Blood" by David A. English
- "Were-Creature" by Kenneth Pembrooke
- Reader's Eyrie
- The Great Pyramid of Giza • (1970) • poem by L. Sprague de Camp (variant of The Great Pyramid) ifc · poem
- The Great Pyramid of Giza • interior artwork by D. Bruce Berry ifc · artwork
- Welcome as lover come, O thunder • poem by Anthony Sandor 2 · poem
- Welcome as lover come, O thunder • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian 2 · artwork
- Editor's Grimoire (Witchcraft & Sorcery #5) • essay by Gerald W. Page 3 · essay
- The Dark Door • short story by Leo P. Kelley 4 · story
- The Dark Door • interior artwork by Jerry Burge 4 · artwork
- Musings ("The little poets sing of little things ...") • (1968) • poem by Robert E. Howard 10 · poem
- House of Evil • short story by Pauline C. Smith 11 · story
- House of Evil • interior artwork by Steve Fritz 11 · artwork
- Witchcraft & Sorcery #5 • interior artwork by Robert E. Jennings 14 · artwork
- The Momentary Ghost • novelette by Gerald W. Page [as by Carleton Grindle] 15 · novelette
- The Momentary Ghost • interior artwork by Robert E. Jennings 15 · artwork
- Portrait of Things to Come • short story by Leon Zeldis 22 · story
- Portrait of Things to Come • interior artwork by Jerry Burge 22 · artwork
- The Ideas • short story by Edith Ogutsch and Ross Rocklynne 24 · story
- The Ideas • interior artwork by Robert E. Jennings 24 · artwork
- Four Letters to Clark Ashton Smith • essay by H. P. Lovecraft 27 · essay
- Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, February 16, 1932 • essay by H. P. Lovecraft 27 · essay
- Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, March 2, 1932 • essay by H. P. Lovecraft 27 · essay
- Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, April 4, 1932 • essay by H. P. Lovecraft 28 · essay
- Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, February 18, 1933 • essay by H. P. Lovecraft 28 · essay
- Ghost Tour • essay by Andre Norton 28 · essay
- Ghost Tour • interior artwork by Robert E. Jennings 28 · artwork
- Mistress of Death • [Agnes de Chastillon] • short story by Robert E. Howard and Gerald W. Page 32 · story
- Mistress of Death • interior artwork by Jeff Jones 32 · artwork
- Wind Magic • short story by Edmund Shirlan 38 · story
- Wind Magic • interior artwork by Steve Fritz 38 · artwork
- The Forgotten • poem by Lin Carter 43 · poem
- The Forgotten • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian 43 · artwork
- The Hate • short story by Terri E. Pinckard [as by Terri Pinckard] 44 · story
- The Hate • interior artwork by Jerry Burge 44 · artwork
- The Rat and the Snake • short story by A. E. van Vogt 48 · story
- Jade Pagoda (Witchcraft & Sorcery #5) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price 48 · essay
- Jade Pagoda (Witchcraft & Sorcery #5) • interior artwork by Tseng Ta Yu 48 · artwork
- The Rat and the Snake • interior artwork by Robert E. Jennings 48 · artwork
- Department of Pointed Tales (Witchcraft & Sorcery #5) • interior artwork by Tim Kirk 50 · artwork
- Bruce • short story by Saliitha Grey 50 · story
- Embarkation of Evil • short story by C. S. Cobun, Jr. 50 · story
- Smoke • short story by Gerald W. Page [as by Leo Tifton] 51 · story
- Tower of Blood • novelette by David A. English 52 · novelette
- Tower of Blood • interior artwork by Steve Fritz 52 · artwork
- Were-Creature • short story by Kenneth Pembrooke 61 · story
- Were-Creature • interior artwork by Steve Fritz 61 · artwork
- Reader's Eyrie • essay by Gerald W. Page 63 · essay
- Letter (Witchcraft & Sorcery #5) • essay by James Benton Carr 63 · essay
Contributors
- Gerald W. Page
- Editor, Essayist
- Jeff Jones
- Illustrator
- Burge
- Cover artist, Illustrator
- D. Bruce Berry
- Illustrator
- Stephen Fabian
- Illustrator
- Steve Fritz
- Illustrator
- Robert E. Jennings
- Illustrator
- Tim Kirk.
- Illustrator
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Essayist
- Andre Norton
- Essayist
- E. Hoffmann Price
- Essayist
- James Benton Carr
- Essayist
Characters / Featuring
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