Oops! I goofed! “The Trail of the Cloven Hoof, by Arlton Eadie, was serialized in “Weird Tales” from July 1934 to January 1935, not from 1933 to 1934. Here is the July 1934 cover, by Margaret Brundage.
What’s more, according to the Introduction by John Pelan in a May 2010 reprint (Ramble House, Vancleave, Mississippi), the “Weird Tales” serialization stinks! Eadie was an English author who died in March 1935, two months after the WT serialization was completed, and his opinions of it are unknown. The “Weird Tales” version by the “sometimes-heavy editorial hand of Farnsworth Wright had effected a hatchet job on Eadie’s novel” cutting out ten thousand words, according to Pelan. Eadie was published in hardcover in England during his lifetime, and this 2010 reprint is of the extremely rare complete English edition (Skeffington & Sons, 1935).
This is probably more about the non-anthropomorphic “The Trail of the Cloven Hoof” than anyone wants to know, but there may be a fan of vivisected-together stag-centaurs out there somewhere. Ramble House’s Dancing Tuatara Press logo (see Amazon.com) is certainly anthro!
Oops! I goofed! “The Trail of the Cloven Hoof, by Arlton Eadie, was serialized in “Weird Tales” from July 1934 to January 1935, not from 1933 to 1934. Here is the July 1934 cover, by Margaret Brundage.
http://www.collectorshowcase.fr/images2/weird_3407.jpg
What’s more, according to the Introduction by John Pelan in a May 2010 reprint (Ramble House, Vancleave, Mississippi), the “Weird Tales” serialization stinks! Eadie was an English author who died in March 1935, two months after the WT serialization was completed, and his opinions of it are unknown. The “Weird Tales” version by the “sometimes-heavy editorial hand of Farnsworth Wright had effected a hatchet job on Eadie’s novel” cutting out ten thousand words, according to Pelan. Eadie was published in hardcover in England during his lifetime, and this 2010 reprint is of the extremely rare complete English edition (Skeffington & Sons, 1935).
http://www.amazon.com/Trail-Cloven-Hoof-Arlton-Eadie/dp/1605434140
This is probably more about the non-anthropomorphic “The Trail of the Cloven Hoof” than anyone wants to know, but there may be a fan of vivisected-together stag-centaurs out there somewhere. Ramble House’s Dancing Tuatara Press logo (see Amazon.com) is certainly anthro!
Fred Patten