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Rh ical science. The Cold Gray God of C. L. Moore is honestly weird. There is no answer in either abstract or scientific religion or abstract or scientific science for the question he portrays. As usual, Seabury Quinn gives us a superlative detective story in The Dead-Alive Mummy. This tale encompasses two medical views as well as, in a scientific manner, explaining something that has no explanation and is therefore completely in the field of the weird. John Flanders in The Mystery of the Last Guest has given us another version of the gray rider and the perennial Hamlet. Our spirits do not die, but we cannot very well define the reason for their lingering and so they are true weird tale material In a Graveyard by Eando Binder is the story of an unexisting character and is therefore weird. You can't put a finger on a vampire. It is a gripping little story in the bargain. The Amulet of Hell by Robert Leonard Russell has everything necessary for a weird tale, although it is an old story done in a new way. Coming at last to the reprint, The Lost Club by Arthur Machen. I will leave this one open. It may be weird. This writer in his stories stresses the difference, or the shade of difference, between weird and eery. Considering him by the stories of his with which I am familiar, I would not rate him as a really weird-story writer in the same way I would rate Lovecraft or Quinn. His stories are eery stories. You classed The Lost Club as an eery story in your introduction. It is awkward drawing a line between weird and eery. In this case I will do it this way: a medically trained criminologist might have accounted for The Lost Club in a perfectly natural manner, but didn't. Had the tale been truly weird it would have been 'beyond the pale' and no imagination could have worked out a natural solution to it."

Kenneth Garner, of Sioux City, Iowa, writes to the Eyrie: "Have been reading your magazine for a period of nearly eight years. Until the present time, I fail to recall a single issue wherein the stories of the Doctor Satan type were featured. There are certain magazines on the stands today that feature the Doctor Satan type of literature. One must concede, however, that as far as reading matter is concerned, the Doctor Satan type is by far superior to the other type. The point is,

a hot flame from hell was Yvala's embrace. A gloriously beautiful woman, Lilith, Circe and Helen combined into one, she burnt the very souls from the men she encountered.

strange story by the author of "Shambleau" and "Black Thirst' is utterly different from anything you have ever read. It is almost incredibly weird, and through it strides the strange figure of Northwest Smith, fighting adventurer and man of action. You have a literary treat in store for you in this unusual tale, which will be published complete

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