Weird Tales, volume 20, number 1

Title

Editor

Farnsworth Wright

The Eyrie/ The phantom hand (part 1) by Victor Rousseau; Echidna by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; The Man who never came back by Pearl Norman Swet; Wings in the night by Robert E. Howard; The planet of peace by Arlton Eadie; The city of crawling death by Hugh B. Cave; The thought-devil by A. W. Calder; Night specters by Kirke Mechem; The devil's bride (conclusion) by Seabury Quinn; The little gods wait by Donald Wandrei; The splendid lie by S.B. H. Hurst; Dust by Edna Goit Brintnall; House of the lizard by Harold Ward/ Weird story reprint: Frankenstein (part 3) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Cover Description

In the foreground, a closeup on the head and shoulders of a white woman with red hair; she seems to be lying down, as her face is horizontal. She wears a green top. Her eyes are cut to see above her, where there are a black snake, jaws wide approaching herneck, and a racist depiction of an older Black woman with arms raised behind her (the woman is in rags, so skinny her ribs are visible, with a red kerchief on her head in a minstrel style illustration. Above the white woman, coming from the left of the page, is the shadow of a hand.

Notable Details

This issue contains one of the first appearances of stories featuring Robert E. Howard’s well-known Solomon Kane character. Howard’s Kane stories were the source material for comic books, a 2006 feature film, and a role playing game