Weird Tales, Vol. VIII, No. 4

This issue of Weird Tales contains various stories of supernatural and speculative fiction. The featured content includes "The Supreme Witch" by G. Appleby Terrill, an account told by Old Jem Lambardiston to fellow Jacobite conspirators in 1736. Lambardiston recounts events from 1667, when Ellen Shafto, a pretty widow living in town, was accused of witchcraft for allegedly bewitching a neighbor's arm through supernatural means. Tried and convicted under threat of torture, Shafto was privately hanged in her cell. The neighbor's arm thereafter healed. Lambardiston hints at a more powerful "supreme witch" whose identity and fate remain to be revealed in the continued narrative. The magazine also advertises forthcoming stories including "The Star Shell," "Drome," "The Head," "The Metal Giants," "The City of Spiders," and "The Last Horror," alongside reprints and verse. Additional completed stories and serials fill the issue, ranging from surgical horror to interplanetary adventure.