Weird Tales, Vol. IX, No. 5

# Weird Tales, May 1927: Contents and Context

This May 1927 issue of Weird Tales features fiction by established pulp authors. The main serial is Donald Edward Keyhoe's "The Master of Doom," a weird-scientific narrative set 500 years in the future where a mad scientist attempts to remake Earth according to his vision. Seabury Quinn contributes "The Veiled Prophetess," continuing his Jules de Grandin supernatural detective series with occult intrigue. Victor Rousseau's "The Man Who Lost His Luck" is the ninth installment in a series about Dr. Ivan Brodsky, "the Surgeon of Souls." Other stories include Bryan Irvine's "The Crooked Smile" (a ghost revenge tale), Ray Cumming's "Explorers Into Infinity" (interplanetary serial), Robert E. Howard's verse, and reprinted Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." The issue emphasizes horror, science fiction, and supernatural elements alongside period adventure content.