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dinary invention and powerful imagination. He very nearly persuades even a matter-of-fact sort of person to take his yarns for facts. By the way, I would like to ask him if there has not really existed an old work of writing named the Necronomicon, which is mentioned in The Dunwich Horror. On the whole, the W. T. is growing more and more indispensable to me at least. It is a refreshment compared to the mass of literary farce that we are treated to in the other magazines."

"I am an ardent reader of Weird Tales," writes Charles A. Rinschler, of Cincinnati, "and wish to state that I enjoy your stories very much, especially scientific fiction of interplanetary space and highly imaginative stories of the little known regions of our own planet. The first installment of The Last of the Mayas is a great imaginative story that has a ring of truth to it, and here's hoping you will publish more like it."

Edwin Meyers, of Oakland, California, writes to the Eyrie: "I recently read The Moon Terror. It was a great story. Why not continue putting out books reprinted from your magazine? My favorite author is, of course, Seabury Quinn. My friend and I commute to San Francisco to work and spend many hours of our daily rides on the ferry discussing Jules de Grandin. That little 'Frog' is the greatest character any author ever created. I remember one story in particular, about Jules de Grandin, that appeared about two years ago. It was called The White Lady of the Orphanage. For sheer horror and amazement it could not be beaten."

L. H. Hardingham, of San Francisco, suggests: "Why don't you inaugurate a department, and call it The Philosopher's Stone, The Alchemist, The Alchemist's Corner, or some name like that, that would appease the insatiable desire of your readers for magic in some measure? It would deal with the whole field of magic, Saracenic, Greek, mediæval alchemy and so on. A correspondence could be carried on with the readers, who would fire in all sorts of questions relating to the weird beliefs of other centuries, and a comprehensive investigation could be made into the whole field of alchemy and mysticism in the course of a year or two. Quotations from Roger Bacon, Browne, Paracelsus, and hosts of others will furnish a realistic background, and their works can be interpreted in the light of modern science. I think it could be made one of the most fascinating features of the magazine."

Writes Philip Almond, of Vancouver, British Columbia: "I want to commend Seabury Quinn's The House of Golden Masks as an acceptable and exciting story. Those of this kind, girl-torture narratives, always appeal to the imagination (and that is the object of ) and do not tax the reader's credulity, but thrill him. Quinn's older story, The Man Who Cast No Shadow, and Captain Eliot's The Copper Bowl were similar, and A-1 too. Let us have more (I noticed a lady urging this) and the ordeals can not be too