Weird Tales, Jan 1927: A Derleth, R E Howard and W Collins

Those fireworks you heard two weeks ago were part of the fiery but peaceful celebration triggered by the announcement that MPorcius Fiction Log had read and blogged about at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales printed in 1926. We've rested on our laurels enough and now the machete starts swinging again as we begin working our way through 1927. Today, the January 1927 number, which has a pretty good monster cover with a fully clothed damsel in distress (somewhat amateurish but charming covers like this one remind me of the beloved covers of the 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual and Dungeon Master's Guide by David C. Sutherland.) Among other things, inside this issue lurks H. P. Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook," which we read back in August, and an editorial in which Farnsworth Wright admits that it is the science fiction stories ("the Jules Verne type of stories, about trips to other planets, weird surgical experiments, stories that forecast the…