Weird Tales July 1943 — Ghost Soldier Stalks Survivor on Pacific Reef
A haunted man sits slumped on a desolate mid-Pacific reef, seemingly unaware of the spectral WWII soldier looming behind him in eerie blue-green translucence — bayonet rifle in hand, helmet casting a hollow shadow. The ghost has returned after the war to claim what the living cannot escape. With Robert Bloch's Jack the Ripper tale and wartime supernatural horror from H. Bedford-Jones, this cover crackles with dread and the weight of men who never came home.
Oh man, a translucent ghost soldier stalking a war survivor on a lonely Pacific reef — this is exactly the kind of wartime supernatural dread Weird Tales was cooking up mid-WWII! The teal phantom looming over that exhausted man just oozes atmosphere; classic pulp horror with real emotional weight.
“"YOURS TRULY --- JACK THE RIPPER" by ROBERT BLOCH JULY Weird Tales 15¢ THE STREET OF FACES by Frank Owen After the war its ghosts return to a mid-Pacific reef "His Last Appearance" by H. BEDFORD-JONES”
