Tales From Cornwall: A History Of The Hubelaires

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If you had been reading AMAZING STORIES monthly and quarterly, and WEIRD TALES in 1928, and added SCIENCE WONDER STORIES and AIR WONDER STORIES to your list when they appeared in the newsstands in 1929, then you would have thought you knew what to expect when you picked up the October 1929 issue of WEIRD TALES and saw the title, The Battle of the Toads, by David H. Keller on the contents page. And you would have been astonished; for here readers saw a different sort of story, written in a different manner from such powerful tales as The Revolt of the Pedestrians, The Menace, and The Human Termites (still running in SCIENCE WONDER STORIES at that moment). There la a touch of grue, to be sure; but the manner is light, almost whimsical. And the following two issues brought The Tiled Man of Cornwall and No Other Man, so that there was no doubt that we had a series here.

But only one more “Cornwall” story appeared in WEIRD TALES: The Bride Well in the October 1930 issue; eight years later, The Thirty And One, was published in the November 1938 issue of MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES; three years after that, The Key to Cornwall appeared in the February 1941 issue of STIRRING SCIENCE STORIES. And that apparently was all we would see.

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