Weird Tales, Nov 1943: E Hamilton, M W Wellman, R Bradbury & A Derleth

After today I will have read at least one story (in fact it looks like I will have read at least three stories) from each of the six issues of Weird Tales with a 1943 cover date. We are making progress in our grand quest to have read something from each issue of Weird Tales, a periodical the life of which spans from 1923 to 2025. And today may be a red letter day, with stories by blockbuster writer Ray Bradbury, fan fave Manly Wade Wellman, MPorcius fave Edmond Hamilton, and Lovecraft correspondent and Arkham House founder August Derleth. This might be the best issue of Weird Tales from 1943! You can read along at the internet archive here and find out how this ish of the unique magazine of the bizarre and unusual stacks up in real time!"The Valley of the Assassins" by Edmond Hamilton Mark Stanton and Bill Bradley are American engineers working to maintain the railway in mountainous northern Iran over which the Western Allies are shipping vital supplies to the Soviet Union so the…