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an unhackneyed plot, strongly handled and well written, with the author's personality stamped on every paragraph. Readers vary in their reactions to a story, but we experienced a sense of cold chill and a touch of panic while reading that part of the story where the weird driver comes into view with his dead-cart and the ominous cry rings out through the night: "Bring out your dead!"

Truly there is a variety of weird fiction here to suit all tastes. We shall endeavor to make every issue a feast of good things for you, the readers.

"For three years," writes Mrs. Maude Irvine Owens, of Monessen, Pennsylvania, "I have been an interested reader of, and I wish to contribute my praises to your Eyrie. I don't think the readers who resent this or that type of story are considerate of the others. I hope you continue your policy of printing the various kinds of weird tales. I myself do not care for the stories of other worlds, but realizing that others might like them and being satisfied to find the majority to my liking, I don't complain. By all means continue your reprints of old established stories, for that department is a charming feature of your periodical."

"Your July issue," writes W. K. Mashburn, Jr., of New Orleans, "registers the most outstanding and needed change in ' career: the improvement in the headings. Keep Rankin."

Nictzin Dyalhis, author of The Dark Lore, writes to The Eyrie: "I have noted with interest the pro and con of 'reprints'. After reading The Dragon Fang, who'd be con? I wouldn't have missed that for a half interest in a duck farm."

"I say let's have more weird-scientific stories," writes W. A. H., of Vicksburg, Michigan. "They rest the mind by giving us something out of the ordinary to think about. I like to forget myself and wonder if these things could possibly take place."

Mrs. Charles Brandenburg writes from Hot Springs, Arkansas: "The first thing I did on my arrival at Hot Springs was to look for . I never buy any other and haven't for two years. Why? Because your stories are so totally different from any other on the market. My son also enjoys the stories immensely. He doesn't like to read, but gets 'under the skin.' Whatever you do, keep up the Jules de Grandin series."

"Of all the stories I have read in, Explorers Into Infinity takes the first place," writes Carl Fries, of Philadelphia. "It is a story thrillingly told, but the end leaves you in the dark. Why not have Martt and