Weird Tales, April 1927

Weird Tales, April 1927 This issue features a seven-story table of contents alongside advertisement material. The primary serial, "Explorers Into Infinity" (Part 1) by Ray Cummings, concerns futuristic interplanetary mail and a mysterious summons involving a scientist named Brett Gryce and his father—set in an advanced civilization with pneumatic transit and aero-cars. Other fiction includes Flavia Richardson's "Out of the Earth," where a Roman elemental emerges from an ancient site to threaten lovers; "The Endocrine Monster" by R. Anthony, involving deaths in jungles; "The Chairs of Stuyvesant Baron" by Victor Rousseau, the eighth installment of a medical-themed series; and "The Youth-Maker" by W. Elwyn, depicting bizarre rejuvenation experiments. The issue also contains the continuation of "Drome," a five-part serial about subterranean voyage beneath Mount Rainier, alongside various shorter weird fiction tales exploring supernatural, scientific, and fantastic themes typical of pulp magazine content.