Famous Fantastic Mysteries did better when they reprinted stories with “The Secret of the Growing Gold” (August 1946), and “The Burial of the Rats” (October 1946). sadly, the stories were not illustrated but had a generic “reprint’ header. “Dracula’s Guest” (December 1927), “The Burial of the Rats” (September 1928), “The Secret of the Growing Gold” (December 1933), “The Coming of Abel Behanna” (September 1934), “The Judge’s House” (March 1935), and “The Gipsy Prophecy” (February 1937). Weird Tales reprinted a number of the stories from this book. The encounter cures him of his eccentric dress. “Crooken Sands” is a doppleganger story about a foppish man who meets his own other self at an oceanside resort. The dead man haunts the killer with a recurring dream of bloody red hands. “A Dream of Red Hands” is another potboiler about a man who suffers for a death he caused. Original illustrations from The Sketch, 1894/Artist unknown
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