_Horror Stories_, a companion weird magazine to _Terror Tales_, will appear in the middle of December.... The Winford Publications' weird magazine forecast in this column some months ago made its bow in November under the title, _Mystery Novels Magazine, Weird! Strange!! Unusual!!!_ To judge from the first issue there will appear a complete book-length novel in each number, to be accompanied by three or four weird-mystery yarns.... Edmond Hamilton deserts science fiction in the February _Weird Tales_ for a crime story, called "Murder in the Grave".... Clark Ashton Smith does a lot of drawing for his own amusement, mostly heads of supernatural creatures. One very good one shows an old man with an elephant's trunk for a nose, ending in the head of a snake. A strange and unusual twist to stories about radio will be given in a new story by the author of "Vampires of the Moon," A. W. Bernal, titled "The Man who was Two Men".... _Tales of Magic and Mystery_, a short lived weird magazine, published a few yarns by Frank Owen, and an exceptionally good H. P. Lovecraft story, "Cool Air".... An ingenious tale of the distant future, dealing with mechanical companions and synthetic love, written by Frank Belknap Long, Jr., and entitled "The Body Masters," will be one of the highlights of the February WT. For the past few years the Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., of London, has been publishing a collection of weird tale books under the title, The Creeps Series, a Collection of Uneasy Tales. Included in the series so far are: "Powers of Darkness," "Panics," "Monsters," "Nightmares," "Mysteries of Asia," (by Achmed Abdullah), "Quakes," "Horrors," "Terrors," "Devil's Drums," "Veils of Fear," "The Strange Papers of Dr. Blayre," and now in preparation, "Tales of the Grotesque." The books contain about 12 stories, each of a distinctly weird nature by such authors as Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell, H. R. Wakefield, Douglas Newton, and others. Every year, too, appears a "Not at Night" series, edited by Christine Campbell Thomson, containing a collection of the best weird stories published during the year, the majority being from _Weird Tales_. Paul Ernst's three part novel, "Rulers of the Future," relating what the world will be like millions of years from now, and carrying the heroes of the story thru the whole universe with the speed of light, will be published starting with the January _Weird Tales_.... "The Red Room," by H. G. Wells, is the most often plagiarized weird story, according to Farnsworth Wright, and "The Damned Thing," by Bierce is another plot often seized upon.... In the February _Weird_ will appear the first of Seabury Quinn's new series dealing with Thomas Eldridge Carter, investigator for the Grand Central Life Assurance Company, called "The Web of Living Death." * * * * * SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE by H. P. Lovecraft