Uncanny Tales - April/May 1939

Weird menace at it's gory best, by the shlockmeister of all pulp publishers, RED CIRCLE. Red Circle would later gain more acclaim as the publisher of Marvel Comics. TAKE ME, AND DIE! by Arthur J. Burks How could Prestley Crane know that he would fall into the power of an old hag--a sickeningly aged harridan with a young girl's voluptuous, pulsating body--who would force this awful decision: Take me as your mate, or see your sweetheart thrown to my slavering hired thugs! or, NAMELESS BRIDES OF FORBIDDEN CITY by Frederick C. Davis Would that I could forget those nightmare hours spent in the Forbidden City! Banish the memory of that beautiful girl's body stretched on a mad cult's unholy shrine; never recall my own wild thoughts as I slowly approached her helpless, naked form, the sacrificial sword in my hand--for that pitiful victim was the mother of my son, my own adorable wife!