“E'en so, Æneas, do I swear by Stars, and Sea, and Earth, By twi-faced Janus, and the twins Latona brought to birth, […]

After this, between the hours of 8 and 11, I now and then go between decks, and if I see or hear anything amiss or tending to immoralise, I instantly administer reproof and report the offender or offenders to the Commanding Officer, whom I always find ready and active to co-operate in the promotion of virtue andd in checking vice.

At any rate, it's a mauvelous cover.

The first magazine solely devoted to horror was the long-running pulp Weird Tales (1923–54), where Lovecraft and his disciples published much of their work. their very appearance in this magazine has been held as a mark against them, but it was at this juncture that the supernatural (even in the form of the innocuous Christmas ghost story) became generally banished from mainstream periodicals, so that these writers had no other markets to peddle their wares. Whether the existence of the pulp magazines engendered this banishment, or whether changes in literary fashion triggered the scorning of non-mimetic fiction from mainstream magazines, is a question that has not been satisfactorily answered.