Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The unique magazineThe Project Gutenberg eBook of Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The unique magazine This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 4, June, 1923: The unique magazine Author: Various Editor: Edwin Baird Release date: December 22, 2022 [eBook #69608] Most recently updated: October 19, 2024 Language: English Original publication: United States: Rural Publishing Corporation, 1923 Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69608 Credits: Wouter Franssen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WEIRD TALES, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4, JUNE, 1923: THE UNIQUE MAGAZINE *** Transcriber's Note: Stories that were originally split over pages, with adverts and/or other stories in between, have been recombined. [Illustration: Copy this Sketch] FREE $80 Drafting Course There is such an urgent demand for practical, trained Draftsman that I am making this special offer in order to enable deserving, ambitious and bright men to get into this line of work. I will teach you to become a Draftsman and Designer, until you are drawing a salary up to $250.00 a month. You need not pay me for my personal instruction or for the complete set of instruments. Draftsman's Pocket Rule Free-To Everyone Sending Sketch [Illustration: _Send above Sketch and Get This_ Ivorine Pocket Rule _FREE_] To every person of 16 years or older sending a sketch I am going to mail free and prepaid the Draftsman's Ivorine Pocket Rule shown here. This will come entirely with my compliments. With it I will send a 6 × 9 book on "Successful Draftsmanship". If you are interested in becoming a draftsman, if you think you have or may attain drafting ability, sit down and copy this drawing, mailing it to me today, writing your name, and your address and your age plainly on the sheet of paper containing the drawing. There are no conditions requiring you to buy anything. You are under no obligations in sending in your sketch. What I want to know is how much you are interested in drawing and your sketch will tell me that. _Positions Paying Up to_ $250 and $300 per Month I am Chief Draftsman of the Engineers' Equipment Co. and I know that there are thousands of ambitious men who would like to better themselves, make more money and secure faster advancement. Positions paying up to $250 and $300 per month, which ought to be filled by skilled draftsmen, are vacant. I want to find the men who with practical training and personal assistance will be qualified to fill these positions. No man can hope to share in the great coming prosperity in manufacturing and building unless he is properly trained and is able to do first class practical work. I know that this is the time to get ready. That is why I am making the above offer. I can now take and train a limited number of students personally and I will give to those students a guarantee to give them by mail practical drawing room training until they are placed in a permanent position with a salary up to $250 and $300 per month. You should act promptly on this offer because it is my belief that even though you start now the great boom will be well on by the time you are ready to accept a position as a skilled draftsman. So write to me at once. Enclose sketch or not, as you choose, but find out about the opportunities ahead of you. Let me send you the book "Successful Draftsmanship" telling how you may take advantage of these opportunities by learning drafting at home. [Illustration: FREE this $25 Draftsman's Working Outfit] These are regular working instruments-the kind I use myself. I give them free to you if you enroll at once. Don't delay. Send for full information today. Mail Your Drawing at Once-_and Get Ivorine Pocket Rule Absolutely_ Free! Ambitious men interested in drafting hurry! Don't wait! This is your opportunity to get into this great profession. Accept the offer which I am making now. Send in your sketch or request for free book and free Ivorine Pocket Rule. Chief Draftsman, Engineers' Equipment Co., 1951 Lawrence Av. Div. 13-95 Chicago WEIRD TALES _The Unique Magazine_ EDWIN BAIRD, _Editor_ Published monthly by THE RURAL PUBLISHING CORPORATION, 325 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Application made for entry as second-class matter at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Indiana. Single copies, 25 cents. Subscription, $3.00 a year in the United States; $3.50 in Canada. The publishers are not responsible for manuscripts lost in transit. Address all manuscripts and other editorial matters to WEIRD TALES, 854 N. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright and publishers are cautioned against using the same, either wholly or in part. Copyright, 1923, by The Rural Publishing Corporation. VOLUME 1 25 Cents NUMBER 4 _Contents for June, 1923_ _Sixteen Thrilling Short Stories_ _Two Complete Novelettes_ _Two Two-Part Stories_ _Interesting, Odd and Weird Happenings_ THE EVENING WOLVES PAUL ELLSWORTH TRIEM 5 _An Exciting Tale of Weird Events_ DESERT MADNESS HAROLD FREEMAN MINERS 19 _A Fanciful Novel of the Red Desert_ THE JAILER OF SOULS HAMILTON CRAIGIE 32 _A Powerful Novel of Sinister Madmen that Mounts to an Astounding Climax_ JACK O' MYSTERY EDWIN MacLAREN 49 _A Modern Ghost Story_ OSIRIS ADAM HULL SHIRK 55 _A Weird Tale of an Egyptian Mummy_ THE WELL JULIAN KILMAN 57 _A Short Story_ THE PHANTOM WOLFHOUND ADELBERT KLINE 60 _A Spooky Yarn by the Author of "The Thing of a Thousand Shapes"_ THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE EDGAR ALLAN POE 64 _A Masterpiece of Weird Fiction_ THE MOON TERROR A. G. BIRCH 72 _Final Thrilling Installment of the Mysterious Chinese Moon Worshipers_ THE MAN THE LAW FORGOT WALTER NOBLE BURNS 81 _A Remarkable Story of the Dead Returned to Life_ THE BLADE OF VENGEANCE GEORGE WARBURTON LEWIS 86 _A Powerful, Gripping Story Well Told_ THE GRAY DEATH LOUAL B. SUGARMAN 91 _Horrifying and Incredible Tale of the Amazon Valley_ THE VOICE IN THE FOG HENRY LEVERAGE 95 _Another Thriller by the Author of "Whispering Wires"_ THE INVISIBLE TERROR HUGH THOMASON 100 _An Uncanny Tale of the Jungle_ THE ESCAPE HELEN ROWE HENZE 103 _A Short Story_ THE SIREN TARLETON COLLIER 105 _A Storiette That Is "Different"_ THE MADMAN HERBERT HIPWELL 107 _A Night of Horror in the Mortuary_ THE CHAIR DR. HARRY E. MERENESS 109 _An Electrocution Vividly Described by a |