Weird Tales, Vol. VII, No. 6

# Museum Catalog Note: Weird Tales, June 1926

This issue features diverse pulp fiction across supernatural, mystery, and adventure genres. Lead stories include Howard R. Marsh's "The Foot Fetish," involving slant-eyed zealots from the Gobi Hills and an American girl bearing a sacred birthmark on her foot; Robert S. Carr's "Spider-Bite," featuring Egyptian tomb-spiders, a resurrected mummy, and jewels in the Chamber of the Pool; and Romeo Poole's "The Death Crescents of Koti," depicting warriors mysteriously marked by three crescents. Additional contents include aviation horror ("Ghosts of the Air"), Filipino superstition tales, and science fiction elements like "The Life Serum." The issue reprints P. Marion Crawford's classic "The Upper Berth" and includes Lovecraft's "The Moon-Bog" and other verse. Serial installments conclude "The Derelict Mine" (Australia mine horror) and continue "The Devil-Ray" (death ray narrative). Editors prominently advertise a discounted 1924 Anniversary Number featuring fifty stories for 50 cents.