The Best of Weird Tales 1923 by Marvin Kaye & John Gregory Betancourt

Author:Marvin Kaye & John Gregory Betancourt [Kaye, Marvin & Betancourt, John Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781880448533
Amazon: 188044853X
Publisher: Borgo Press
Published: 1997-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

SEPTEMBER 1923

Volume II, Number 2 is marginally better than its predecessor, thanks in part to Otis Adelbert Kline’s atmospheric “The Cup of Blood,” which collectors generally consider to be the best of Kline’s early contributions to Weird Tales. Sixth of the thirteen issues that Edwin Baird would edit, September 1923

contains an article on black magic, Preston Langley Hickey’s third “The Cauldron” feature, and sixteen stories, including a reprint of Ambrose Bierce’s tired old warhorse, “The Damned Thing,” and lesser efforts by Julian Kilman, Vincent Starrett and Farnsworth Wright. One of the two serial installments is the first half of “The People of the Comet” by Austin Hall, coauthor with Homer Eon Flint of “The Blind Spot,” an indifferently-written but popular and conceptually striking science-fantasy novel that first appeared in 1921 in “Argosy Magazine.” In addition to Kline’s story, I have chosen James Ravenscroft’s nasty period piece about vivisection, “The Bloodstained Parasol,” and the obscure and possibly pseudonymous P. D. Gog’s grim Hawaiian anecdote, “The Dead-Naming of Lukapehu.” The latter has a ring of authenticity and might well be a true story.

THE DEAD-NAMING OF LUKAPEHU

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