# Weird Tales/Volume 28/Issue 3

NB: The copyright for "The Opener of the Way" by Robert Bloch was renewed by Bloch and has therefore been redacted from this version of the magazine.
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* A SECRET METHOD FOR THE MASTERY OF LIFE
| Whence came the knowledge that built the Pyramids and the mighty Temples of the Pharaohs? Civilization began in the Nile Valley centuries ago. Where did its first builders acquire their astounding wisdom that started man on his upward climb? Beginning with naught they overcame nature's forces and gave the world its first sciences and arts. Did their knowledge come from a race now submerged beneath the sea, or were they touched with Infinite inspiration? From what concealed source came the wisdom that produced such characters as Amenhotep IV, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and a host of others? Today it is known that they discovered and learned to interpret certain Secret Methods for the development of their inner power of mind. They learned to command the inner forces within their own beings, and to master life. This secret art of living has been preserved and handed down throughout the ages. Today it is extended to those who dare to use its profound principles to meet and solve the problems of life in these complex times. | Line drawing of a bust of an Egyptian Pharaoh. AMENHOTEP IV FOUNDER OF EGYPT'S MYSTERY SCHOOLS |
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A MAGAZINE OF THE BIZARRE AND UNUSUAL
REGISTERED IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE
| Volume 28 | CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1936 | Number 3 |
| Cover Design | J. Allen St. John | J. Allen St. John |
| Illustrating a scene in "Isle of the Undead" ||
| Isle of the Undead | Lloyd Arthur Eshbach | 259 |
| An uncanny tale of the fate that befell a yachting party on the awful island of living dead men ||
| The Lost Temples of Xantoos | Howell Calhoun | 276 |
| Verse ||
| The Opener of the Way | Robert Bloch | 277 |
| A tremendous tale of dread doom in a forgotten tomb beneath the desert sands of Egypt ||
| Witch-Burning | Mary Elizabeth Counselman | 288 |
| Verse ||
| The Lost Door | Dorothy Quick | 289 |
| An alluring but deadly horror out of past centuries menaced the life of a young American ||
| Doom of the House of Duryea | Earl Peirce, Jr. | 304 |
| A powerful story of stark horror, and the dreadful thing that happened in a lone lodge in the Maine woods ||
| The Tree of Life | C. L. Moore | 315 |
| A tale of the planet Mars and a terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar ||
| Red Nails (end) | Robert E. Howard | 334 |
| A three-part serial story of a weird roofed city and the strangest people ever spawned ||
| R. E. H. | R. H. Barlow | 353 |
| Verse, a tribute to the late Robert E. Howard ||
| The Doors of Death | Arthur B. Waltermire | 354 |
| A strange and curious story about a banker whose only fear was that be might he buried alive ||
| The Secret of Kralitz | Henry Kuttner | 361 |
| A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz ||
| Weird Story Reprint: The Great Keinplatz Experiment | Arthur Conan Doyle | 366 |
| A weird-scientific story by a late British writer ||
| The Eyrie | | 378 |
| Our readers exchange opinions about this magazine ||
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COMING NEXT MONTH
From the black woods beside the trail rose a shriek of blood-curdling laughter. Slavering, mouthing sounds followed it, so strange and garbled that at first I did not recognize them as human words. Their unhuman intonations sent a chill down my spine.
"Dead men!" the inhuman voice chanted. "Dead men with torn throats! There will be dead men among the pines before dawn! Dead men! Fools, you are all dead!"
Ashley and I both fired in the direction of the voice, and in the crashing reverberations of our shots the ghastly chant was drowned. But the weird laugh rang out again, deeper in the woods, and then silence closed down like a black fog, in which I heard the semi-hysterical gasping of the girl. She had released Ashley and was clinging frantically to me. I could feel the quivering of her lithe body against mine. Probably she had merely followed her feminine instinct to seek refuge with the strongest; the light of the match had shown her that I was a bigger man than Ashley.
"Hurry, for God's sake!" Ashley's voice sounded strangled. "It can't be far to the cabin. Hurry! You'll come with us, Mr. Garfield?"
"What was it?" the girl was panting. "Oh, what was it?"
"A madman, I think," I answered, tucking her trembling little hand under my left arm. But at the back of my head was whispering the grisly realization that no madman ever had a voice like that. It sounded—God!—it sounded like some bestial creature speaking with human words, but not with a human tongue!...
You will not want to miss this grim novelette of stark horror—of the terrible disfigurement inflicted upon Adam Grimm by the dark priests of Inner Mongolia, and the frightful vengeance that pursued his enemy to the United States and tracked him down in the Louisiana woods. It will be published complete in the November issue of Weird Tales:
Black Hound of Death
By Robert E. Howard
———Also———
| Witch-House By Seabury Quinn A fascinating and gripping tale of the blight that fell upon a lovely and beautiful American girl—a tale of Jules de Grandin, ghost-breaker, occultist, and master of the supernatural. | The Man in Black By Paul Ernst A vivid weird tale about a masquerade ball, and a grim figure clad in formal black, who mingled with the dancers but did not dance. |
| The Dark Demon By Robert Bloch The strange tale of a man who communed too closely with things from beyond space—a shuddery tale of stark horror. | The Crawling Horror By Thorp McClusky A grim tale of the weird terror that wrought ghastly death and panic at Brubaker Farm—by the author of "Loot of the Vampire." |
| Midas By Bassett Morgan A shuddery graveyard tale, through which blows an icy breach of horror, like a chill wind from the tomb. | Mice By Robert Barbour Johnson What ghastly fate pursued the dweller in that vermin-infested old mansion in Louisiana?—the story of a weird doom. |
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