Weird Tales, Jan '44: M W Wellman, H Bok, N S Bond & R Bradbury

There's nothing wrong with skipping around a little bit while we pursue our eldritch endeavor of trying to read at least one story from every issue of Weird Tales. So let's take a little break from 1927 and look at the January 1944 issue of the unique magazine of the bizarre and unusual. The cover of this issue was reused for the July 1954 issue, and I'm pretty sure I also saw it on some recent vampire anthology, but I can't recall the title of that recent volume. In the letters column we have jocular biographical sketches from Nelson S. Bond (useless banal and juvenile jokes) and Frank Belknap Long (Long takes the task seriously and tells us tidbits about his ancestors, early life, and his evolving writing career.) Bond and Long have stories in this issue--we read Long's story like two years ago, but we'll be reading Bond's today, plus the contributions of Southerner Manly Wade Wellman, beloved draughtsman Hannes Bok, and one of the mainstream's favorite speculative fiction writers,…

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