# Weird Tales/Volume 11/Issue 2

VOLUME XI NUMBER 2
Published monthly by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 2457 E. Washington Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second-class matter March 20, 1923, at the post office at Indianapolis, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 25 cents. Subscription, $2.50 a year in the United States; $3.00 a year in Canada. English office: Charles Lavell, 13, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, E. C. 4, London. The publishers are not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, although every care will be taken of such material while in their possession. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright and must not be reproduced either wholly or in part without permission from the publishers.
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Copyright, 1928, by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Contents for February, 1928
| Cover design | C. C. Senf | C. C. Senf |
| Illustrating a scene in "The Ghost Table" ||
| The Ghost-Table | Elliot O'Donnell | 149 |
| An exciting story of occult phenomena—a rampant beast, lusting to kill you, was this table with the tiger claws ||
| The Call of Cthulhu | H. P. Lovecraft | 159 |
| Slithering through the earth came the thoughts of Cthulhu, and mankind faced the rule of an obscene and incredible monstrosity ||
| The Shadow on the Moor | Stuart Strauss | 179 |
| A creepy tale of the pre-druidistic ruins of England—out on the moor were dancing, and strange wild music, and death ||
| The Curse of Alabad, and Ghinu and Aratza | Wilfred B. Talman | 188 |
| "If she sinks, she is innocent, but if she floats, she is a witch and must die!"—a tale of old New York ||
| Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd. | Seabury Quinn | 193 |
| Jules de Grandin rescues an Austrian girl from the fiendish grasp of a heartless devil-syndicate ||
| The Purple Sea | Frank Owen | 213 |
| Another exquisite Chinese fantasy, as full of color as was "The Wind That Tramps the World" ||
| The Giant World (Part 2) | Ray Cummings | 221 |
| A three-part weird-scientific serial—a distant world—giants growing into largeness unfathomable—gooseflesh adventures ||
| The Three Witches | Ernest Dowson | 236 |
| Verse ||
| The Isle of the Fairy Morgana | John Martin Leahy | 237 |
| A cruel murder took place on Flang Island, hidden from the world, yet Guy Garford saw every frightful detail of the murder ||
| Folks Used to Believe: |||
| The Barnacle Goose | Alvin F. Harlow | 252 |
| One of the curious superstitions of our ancestors ||
| The Mist Monster | Granville S. Hoss | 253 |
| A weird mist billowed up from the cape—and horrific was the thing that it did ||
| The Dream Snake | Robert E. Howard | 257 |
| An eery snake story—an unusual tale—night by night the horror grew, until it completely enmeshed the doomed man ||
| Weird Story Reprint |||
| Clarimonde | Théophile Gautier | 261 |
| "La Morte Amoreuse" the most exquisitely beautiful of all vampire tales, translated by Lafcadio Hearn ||
| The Eyrie | 282 | 282 |
| A chat with the readers ||
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
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