We conclude this sixth series of Stories from the Borderland—and our 31st episode overall—with one of the genuine “Women of Weird Tales..” Leah Bodine Drake (1904–1964) made her primary contributions to the unique magazine, not with fiction, but with poetry…However, the opening sentence-paragraph of her story “Mop-Head” is pure mid-century Weird Fiction, with an element of cosmic horror: In abandoned cisterns and old wells, in moldy heaps of straw forgotten in the corners of deserted barns, in reedy pools deep in the woods, in fungied hollows of dead trees, in all such secret places apart from man, strange life engenders, drifts in and takes root and form.

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