Howard, written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons.

    In this issue, he confronts "The Devil Genghis", a mad genius armed with incredible scientific inventions stolen from Doc Savage's "Fortress of Solitude". This volume reprints both appearances of Doc Savage's greatest enemy, the diabolical John Sunlight, and features the classic pulp cover art, along with the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban.

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    The South Seas In The 1870sWhere the native girls swim out to meet you, playing around your ship like brown seals.Where there are fortunes to be made in pearls and whale oil -- if you don't mind killing a few people to get them."A tropical paradise," said the whaling captain."A smiling hell," said the missionary."A lonely exile," said the missionary's lovely wife--until the captain stared hungrily into her eyes.

    The Spider enters the fray, only to receive an injection that threatens to turn him into a monster, too!

    With the dark, the alley woke up.The door of the cantina opened and the sour smell of stale beer and spilled tequila spread into the slow moving air.The first tourist came timidly down the narrow alley. The drunk began his nightly task of cadging drinks. The girls went to work, swinging provocative hips, smiling and cutting their eyes at the men. From sundown to sunup, while it was night, Burro Alley lived.BURRO ALLEY DREW THEMHere, Mrs. Tulsa might show off her millionaire husband.For Floriano it was a place to get drunk.Max Purdy might find sanctuary between its shabby walls.Roberta Grace hoped it was a place where something might happen to her--anything so she would know she was alive.Porfirio found it an ever-changing side show.Amador used it as a place of business--queer business.And for John Lackland it was a way station on the long road toward eternity...

    Two novels, originally published in May 1941 as "The Devil's Paymaster" and in January 1938 as "Legions of the Accursed Light" in the pulp monthly publication The Spider, Master of Men!

    Weird medical thriller set in the Bahamas concerning a haunted ancient fortress, mysterious deaths from snakebite, a beautiful young woman whose best friends are lizards and toads, and her mysterious guardian, a mutant who shape shifts into a snakelike creature.

    

    (a.k.a. "The Outlaw Legion.") Part 1 of a 3-part story.

    Cited in Alternative Hall of Fame by Bill Pronzini in Son of Gun-in-Cheek." - Robert Knowlton. Combines weird menace, detective and science-fictional pulp conventions to produce a story of vampirism in New York City, against a back story involving vampire bats from South America and a half-dozen intercalated 'cases' of vampirism from around the world. The evil German genius Schalkenbach has set up a secret barricaded laboratory in Greenwich Village, where, when he is not conducting experiments on the revived corpse of a beautiful young society woman, he is moodily reciting Wagner on an organ behind a black velvet curtain. The writing is actually rather good when the author confines himself to descriptions of traditional settings (the cozy club on a stormy winter day, etc.), but his characters are barely one-dimensional, the theme is muddled, the action writing ludicrous. Still, in the exuberance of its unintentional cacophony there lies a certain charm. Not to mention the repeated references to "duckless glands." Bleiler "The stirring story of the bizarre love of a proud, bitter, misshapen, physical and mental giant for a lovely New York society girl, 'a man you could never forget once you had seen him'. A prodigy of tremendous force who is virtually shunned by polite society. Eric von Schalkenbach resolves to win for himself love and happiness in the civilized world, as his great strength and cunning had won for him fabulous wealth in the role of a strange white god among the savage Indians of the wild Amazon country. When the sex starved monstrosity finds that his adroitness and money fail to attract the lovely Cynthia Winthrop he ruthlessly attempts to win her by seemingly supernatural means-with gruesome and fantastically surprising results."