Weird Tales, May 1926

About this issue

This issue of Weird Tales contains eleven original stories and novelettes spanning supernatural horror, science fiction, and mystery. Featured stories include Arthur J. Burks's "The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee," concerning dreadful happenings in a western gulch; Joel Martin Nichols Jr.'s serial "The Devil-Ray," beginning a three-part narrative of a lethal purple beam descending from the clouds; and Seabury Quinn's "The Dead Hand," featuring his recurring character Jules de Grandin confronting a bodiless hand that seizes a millionaire. Additional contents include Frank Owen's "The Silent Trees," B. W. Sliney's "The Man Who Was Saved" (depicting a vast green Pacific monster), August Derleth's "Bat's Belfry," and reprints including H. B. Marryat's "The Werewolf" and works by Charles Baudelaire and Henry S. Whitehead. The issue concludes the second part of Frank A. Mochant's serial mystery "The Derelict Mine," set in Australia.