Weird Tales, Vol. X, No. 5

The November 1927 issue of Weird Tales contains diverse weird fiction and fantasy tales. Featured stories include Edmond Hamilton's "The Time-Raider" (part 2 of a four-part serial about an entity that hunts victims across time), Arthur J. Burks' "The Invading Horde" (future-set science fiction featuring Asiatic invasion forces in giant submarines), and G.G. Pendarves' "The Lord of the Tarn" (featuring monstrous cats and evil rites at a spectral abbey). Additional offerings include Sewell Peaslee Wright's "The Wolf," a Northwest tale; Clare Winger Harris' "A Certain Soldier" on reincarnation and ancient Rome; Henry S. Whitehead's "The Shadows" involving a West Indian Jumbee; Frank Belknap Long Jr.'s "The White People"; Manly Wade Wellman's "Back to the Beast" (evolutionary devolution narrative); and Will Smith's "Other Earths." The issue reprints Edgar Allan Poe's "The Thousand and Second Tale" and includes verse contributions and folklore commentary.