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We continue to creep through Weird Tales! Last time we read four stories from the January 1943 issue, and today we've got three tales from the issue dated March 1943, the second of the six issues of the Unique Magazine published that year. Big names today: Arkham House co-founder August Derleth; fixture at Astounding as well as Weird Tales, Henry Kuttner; and script writer for Joan Crawford's Strait-Jacket, Robert Bloch. A still bigger name, Ray "Martian Chronicles" Bradbury, has a story in this issue we read a few years ago, "The Wind.""No Light for Uncle Henry" by August DerlethThis is a decent ghost/revenge story with no dumb mistakes. Mild recommendation for "No Light for Uncle Henry."Edward is a young man who runs into financial trouble and has to move in with his Uncle Herbert, in the house Herb once shared with his brother Henry, who died a year or so ago. Derleth stresses that Edward is a "prosaic," boring, staid, square. Edward doesn't chase women or hang around with friends…

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