Weird Tales, May '43: P S Miller, A Derleth, S Coblentz & R Bradbury

In our last episode we read some "proper" science fiction, two stories about space aliens shipwrecked here on Earth and a story about an eight-year-old girl who has psychic powers that threaten all of humanity. (We also read a story about an upper-middle-class woman who dates a djinni and gets him to expand her real estate holdings and then marry her and father her children, so if that is your bag, check that out.) But today it is back to the weird!The May 1943 issue of Weird Tales has an attractive woman on the cover painted by Margaret Brundage. During Farnsworth Wright's reign as editor of the unique magazine of the bizarre and unusual, Brundage's sexy girls were a staple of the magazine's covers, but under D. McIlwraith's regime such images have been rare, and while we welcome Ms. Brundage's return, we note this painting is quite tame compared to some of the artist's more famous efforts. (It is perhaps better composed and painted, though.) Inside, a long story by P. Schuyler…