Weird Tales, Sept '42: R Bloch, F Leiber & D H Keller

"Onwards!" we cry as we open the penultimate issue of Weird Tales published with a 1942 cover date. Today we advance another step in our sacred journey, forge one more link in the chain that is the quest that was written in our stars, our mission to read at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales! Today three stories, one each by Robert Bloch, the creator of Norman Bates; Fritz Leiber, the creator of The Gray Mouser; and medical man David H. Keller, squirm under our bloodshot eyes. Each of today's trio of terror debuted here in the September '42 issue of D. McIlwraith's magazine, but the issue includes another story of note that is a reprint, a 1934 tale by California-based titan of the weird, Clark Ashton Smith. We read "The Epiphany of Death," which appears here under the title "Who Are the Living?", back in 2019, which I guess means we've already fulfilled the criteria of our long term campaign when it comes to this issue, but here at MPorcius Fiction Log we like to do the…