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fascinating novelette you have a weird-scientific story of unusual power and thrilling incidents, a story that will hold your breathless interest as it carries you along in the sweep of its world-shaking events.

the story of a mild-looking, bespectacled scientist, who, from his eyrie in the mountains of Colorado, fought four great nations single-handed in a supreme effort to make all the countries of the world destroy their armaments, and thus end war for ever. This strange novelette will be printed complete

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surpass all other types of contemporary magazine authors in literary skill. B.—The taste of genuine weird tale readers should be wide. Hence different types of weird stories, by different writers, have their own appeal; viz., Mr. Quinn, by comparison, is not truly weird, yet the tremendous personality of Jules de Grandin is so human and likable that one misses an old companion when he is not among the pages of WT. 1 suggest that Mr. Quinn's stories be titled as An Adventure of de Grandin as related to, and set down by, Seabury Quinn. C.—Those covers my remark is: Who cares? Tear them all off if you do not like them; is my magazine, covers or no covers, printed or painted. Other than appreciation of Brundage's or any other illustrator's art, I got over being influenced by pictures when I finished reading Mother Goose I shall continue to read WT as I have in the past, because of the gripping, eldritch tales of elder times by Lovecraft and Smith; for tire imaginative thrills of the future adventurers of Hamilton and Moore; for the lovable personality of de Grandin by Quinn; for the thrilling old barbarian Conan of Howard; for Mr. Eadie, Mr. Long, Mr. Cave, Mr. Wandrei, Mrs. La Spina, and all those old and new writers of the genuine weird story as found only in your magazine,

Readers, you can help keep up to your liking by telling as what are your favorite stories in each issue. Let us know why you like them; and if there are stories that yon dislike, we want to know about them too. Write a fetter to the Eyrie, or fill out the vote coupon on page 526 and send it to us. The most popular story in the August issue, as shown by your votes and letters, was The Devil in Iron by Robert E. Howard. This was pressed for first place by C. L. Moore's story, Dust of Gods.