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THE SHAVER MYSTERY CLUB

Sirs:

For those readers of Amazing Stories who have asked us when our little club magazine will be published, we are engaged in printing it now, and it will appear sometime in April.

We will have 64 pages, well printed, and containing the first installment of Shaver's "Mandark," his sensational thought record of the years around the time of Christ, and detailing His life as contained on this ancient thought record.

I myself believe this manuscript to be the sensation of all time in the science fiction world, to say nothing of the Shaver Mystery, the occult, or what have you.

Also, we have articles and letters containing much material pertinent to the Shaver Mystery, and we hope that within a few months, our research will begin to produce real results in either proving or disproving the Mystery.

We might say that Mr. Shaver himself would work hardest to disprove it, if that would be the result of his work. I have never known a more fair-minded man, nor a more sincere one.

For those of Amazing's readers who would like to secure copies of the magazine, we are accepting at the present time only the price of two issues, which we are certain of putting out. The price is $1.00. The cost of the little magazine, to us, at the number we are able to put out, will be at least that, but we're willing to shell out to find out what this is all about. We will find out, if it's possible!

Thanks much for your cooperation, Mr. Palmer, and you readers of AS who have already written.

''Okay Chet, anything for a friend! And we hope you do find out something. If you do, please don't hesitate to let us know about it! We're as anxious as you.''

''For the readers' information, Mr. Geier is perfectly reputable, having written for us for years, and some very fine material too! Take his "Forever Is Too Long" in a recent issue of Fantastic Adventures, which its readers have acclaimed as a classic. "Hidden City," coming up next month in this magazine, is also a classic, in our opinion! And we might mention that he's written a humdinger of a western novel for Mammoth Western called "The Golden Six-Gun".—Ed.''

MORE ABOUT TIAHUANACO

Sirs:

Was very much interested in Mr. Hansen's treatise concerning the Apaches and Tiahuanaco. Would you kindly communicate the following to him, with which he may or may not be familiar.

When I passed through Tiahuanaco, which is on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca, sometime in the fall of 1943, I bought from an Indian boy a baked clay statue which he had made to represent the original stone statues which may still be seen there from the windows of the train while en route to Guaqui. The boy used as sales talk the legend which he says lies behind those monuments which stand there towering above the lofty plateau (about 12,500 feet altitude) as mysteriously as those of Easter Island. Legend has it (according to the Bolivian boy) that in pre-Incan times the Tiahuanaqueños were a great people, endowed with certain gifts of the gods, but that they became wicked and so angered their deities that many were turned into stone. The stone statues are supposed to perpetuate a sort of warning to all men not to be wicked.

Take that for what it's worth. I still have my little statue which shows a series of pyramids in its design. Unfortunately the artist was no doubt uninformed concerning the symbolical importance of the exact number of pyramids on the original and I cannot trust the copy, nor have I the opportunity now to return to Tiahuanaco and make a closer inspection of the statues in the light of Mr. Hansen's article.

However, with reference to the two horns, one may read in several works concerning Incan ceremonial dress, particularly in the Comentarios 168