Weird Tales, July 1950 (British Edition)

This issue of *Weird Tales* (1950) contains six short stories and one novelette across horror and fantastical themes. Arthur J. Burks's novelette "Shallajai" depicts creatures avoiding human civilization at a place called the Sea of Glass. Robert Bloch's "The Weird Tailor" explores horror through an unusual shop dummy. Eric Frank Russell's "The Rhythm of the Rats" presents supernatural rats as generational plague. Seabury Quinn's "Rebels' Rest" treats cemetery ghosts, while H. Russell Wakefield's "Woe Water" examines murder by drowning. Mary Elizabeth Counselman's "Cordona's Skull" philosophizes on skeletal anonymity. August Derleth's "The Closing Door" focuses on a church door that won't stay open. Margaret St. Clair's "Mrs. Hawk" presents a woman with a pig farm seeking marriage. Cleve Cartmill's "Fly Down Death" spans five centuries, exploring inherited faults. Three poems appear: H.P. Lovecraft's "The City," Dorothy Quick's "Pattern," and Lee Brown Coye's "Weirdisms."