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Incredibly prolific author Oscar Schisgall, who contributed over 4,000 stories to publications like Reader's Digest and Colliers, published two thrilling stories in Weird Tales magazine, "The Death Pit" ("a novelette of grim tragedy") in November of 1923 and "In Kashla's Garden ("a tale of hypnotism") in May of 1927. Enjoy this pair of macabre tales sure to bring tingles to the spine! - Summary by Ben Tucker

My dear friends... Do you find that you suffer from the condition known as ARACHNOPHOBIA? Do you cower in fear at the feeling of those hairy little legs as they crawl slowly up your leg, a wisp of webbing in their wake? Do you spend sleepless nights shivering in horror at the idea of their sharp fangs sinking into your tender, soft flesh? Boy, do we have a collection of stories for you! From those madcap maniacs at Weird Tales magazine, we bring you eleven spine-tingling tales of arachnid terror that is sure to give you goosebumps! - Summary by Ben Tucker

It’s a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent in April. She sees another member of her women’s club, Mrs. Arbuthnot, reading the same advertisement and manages to convince her that the two of them should rent it. Both are miserable and lonely in their marriages. They can’t afford the cost of the villa, San Salvatore, on their own and must advertise for two others, eventually recruiting an elderly widow named Mrs. Fisher, and Lady Caroline Dester, a beautiful young socialite desperate to escape ...

The disappearance of a noted archaeologist hunting the secret of the Lost Tribe of the Wiramwazi Mountains was a signal to the one man who could penetrate Africa's deepest interior—Tarzan of the Apes. For only Tarzan, the white man who had been raised by the anthropoid apes, could understand the ways of the jungle and its beasts perfectly enough to speed to the scientist's rescue. But this time, in addition to savage tribes and vicious beasts, Tarzan uncovered a strange lost land—twin cities of Roman soldiery, outposts of a ruthless empire that had fallen fifteen hundred years before. ...

A collection of three translated diaries written during the latter part of the Heian Period (11th century A.D.). The original authors, Sugawara no Takasue no musume, Murasaki Shikibu, and Izumi Shikibu, were all women of the Japanese court; the latter two known also for their novels and poetry, respectively. - Summary by Wikisource