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UST a word or two about serials in. This magazine does not overload its pages with serials, because our readers like to be able to finish a story without waiting for future issues to appear on the news stands. However, some of our most thrilling stories have been serials, and we feel that it would be unfair to our readers to deny them the pleasure of reading a fine weird story merely because it is too long to print complete in a single issue.

Ray Cummings has written an amazing sequel to Explorers Into Infinity, a startling weird-scientific story called The Giant World. It would not be possible to print it complete in one issue without crowding out several very fine stories by other authors. But our readers, we feel, should be given the best weird stories obtainable, and we do not want to deprive them of the inestimable privilege of accompanying Martt and Frannie to that giant world with its eery monstrosities, its blood-freezing horrors, and its weird beings that dwindle out of largeness unfathomable. So we shall print it as a three-part serial. This magazine has refused to make any hard and fast rule which would bar out stories merely because they are too long to be printed complete in a single issue. However, we print only one serial at a time, in order to have as large an assortment of thrilling short-stories and complete novelettes in each issue as possible. The current serial, The Time-Raider, began in the October issue; we are holding off the first installment of The Giant World until next month's issue, when The Time-Raider will end; for by running only one serial at a time we are able to give you a large number of complete weird stories in each issue, instead of filling up our pages with continued stories.

From time to time in the editor's mail there have come requests that we publish fact articles about the werewolves and vampires and other legendary weird beings that appear in our stories. As Weird Tales is a fiction magazine, we have been averse to printing articles of any sort, preferring to use the space for thrilling weird stories. But we have found a way to place