Serial titles for Brood of the Witch Queen

Brood of the Witch Queen (1918) first ran as a nine part serial in Premier Magazine from May 1914 (the 1st issue) to January, 1915. This advertisement for the 2nd issue ran in the Penny Pictorial. Vol. LX No. 780, 9 May 1914, page 418. It was reproduced in The Rohmer Review No. 8.

In June 1914, it began as an eight part serial in The Canadian Magazine. This series also concluded in January 1915. In this serial, the episode corresponding to Chapters 4-6 of the book was omitted. The first seven installments were numbered consecutively I through VII, but the final episode was numbered IX rather than VIII.

The first of three installments covering the first ten chapters ran in Short Stories beginning in July 1914. The second and third installments were published in August and September.

Nine years later, Munsey's picked up with chapters 11 to 31 which were published as six titles in three issues.

The correspondence between serial installments and book chapters is not uniform in all four of these serializations, and there are minor textual differences among the versions.

	The Premier Magazine	The Canadian Magazine	Short Stories	Munsey's Magazine [as It Came Out of Egypt]
I. The Ring of Thoth (Ch. 1-3)	May 1914	June 1914	July 1914
II. The Rustling Shadows (Ch. 4-6)	June 1914	[Ch. 4-6 omitted]	August 1914 as The Shadow-Shapes
III. The Curse of Dhoon (Ch. 7-10)	July 1914	July 1914	September 1914 as The Curse of the House of Dhoon
IV. The Mask of Set (Ch. 11-13)	August 1914	August 1914		September 1923
V. The Lair of Spiders (Ch. 14-16)	September 1914	September 1914		September 1923
VI. The Bats of Meydum (Ch. 17-19)	October 1914	October 1914		October 1923
VII. The Flowering of the Lotus (Ch. 20-24)	November 1914	November 1914		October 1923
VIII. The Cord (Ch.. 25-27)	December 1914	December 1914		November 1923 as The Silken Cord and The Book of Thoth
IX. The Elemental (Ch. 28-31)	January 1915	January 1915		November 1923 as The Silken Cord and The Book of Thoth

In 1933 the novel was published as a series of seven separate stories under the series title "The Witch's Son" in Mystery - The Illustrated Detective Magazine (although the series title was not used on all installments). The second, third, fourth, and fifth stories were drastically rewritten and somewhat condensed from the "standard" version of the text.

The Invisible Strangler	Ch. 1-3	March 1933
The Sinister Perils of Myra	Ch. 4-6	April 1933
Satan's Son	Ch. 7-10	May 1933
The Witch Queen	Ch. 11-15	July 1933
The Devil's Brood	Ch. 16-19	August 1933
The Sacred Lotus	Ch. 20-24	September 1933
Death of a Mummy	Ch. 25-31	October 1933

Finally, the novel was reprinted in the January 1951 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries in a somewhat condensed and rewritten version prepared by the magazine's editor, Mary Gnaedinger.

Magazine Publication of Brood of the Witch Queen

Brood of the Witch Queen (1918) first ran as a nine part serial in Premier Magazine from May 1914 (the 1st issue) to January, 1915. This advertisement for the 2nd issue ran in the Penny Pictorial. Vol. LX No. 780, 9 May 1914, page 418. It was reproduced in The Rohmer Review No. 8.

The first of three installments covering the first ten chapters ran in Short Stories beginning in July 1914. The second and third installments were published in August and September.

Nine years later, Munsey's picked up with chapters 11 to 31 which were published as six titles in three issues.

The correspondence between serial installments and book chapters is not uniform in all four of these serializations, and there are minor textual differences among the versions.

Finally, the novel was reprinted in the January 1951 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries in a somewhat condensed and rewritten version prepared by the magazine's editor, Mary Gnaedinger.

This version was subdivided into 9 chapters, corresponding to the original nine serial installments, rather than using the book's 31 chapters.