Weird Tales, Vol. 7, No. 5

# May 1926 Weird Tales

This issue features a mix of horror, supernatural, and pseudo-scientific fiction. The lead serial "The Devil-Ray" by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. concerns a purple beam of light descending from clouds that brings death to whatever it touches. "The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee" by Arthur J. Burks depicts dreadful happenings in a western gulch with bobcats howling as chorus. Seabury Quinn's "The Dead Hand" describes a bodiless hand floating through a window and seizing a millionaire by the throat. Other offerings include "The Silent Trees" by Frank Owen, "The Man Who Was Saved" by B. W. Sliney about a vast green monster rising from the Pacific, and "Bat's Belfry" by August W. Derleth involving a gruesome discovery in manor vaults. The issue reprints H. B. Marryat's "The Werewolf" and features poetry including work by Charles Baudelaire translated by Clark Ashton Smith. Contributors include Sewell Peaslee Wright and James Cocks.