Magazine of Horror No. 24

Museum Catalog Note This issue of *Acme* (November, No. 24) features three supernatural and weird fiction stories. The lead story, "Once in a Thousand Years" by Frances Bragg Middleton, concerns Shane O'Farrell, who disappears while swimming in the Gulf one summer night alongside two friends. He reappears three years later, transformed—taller in bearing, his voice unfamiliar with English, his manner detached. When pressed, O'Farrell cryptically reveals he has been in the Sargasso Sea and references the legendary Saint Brandan's Isle. Subsequently restless and obsessed, he frequents libraries researching lost civilizations and heredity, hinting at a remarkable discovery. The magazine also advertises H.P. Lovecraft's "The Eye of Horus" and a story titled "A Diagnosis of Death," alongside various educational correspondence course advertisements and a retrospective essay on Lovecraft's literary legacy and character.