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EDMOND HAMILTON|DMOND HAMILTON, who discovers "The Shadow Folk" for us in this issue, writes:

I have been greatly interested in the letters in recent issues of The Eyrie from some of the older contributors like Manly Wade Wellman, Seabury Quinn, August Derleth, E. Hoffmann Price, Frank Belknap Long and others. In point of time my own first story slightly followed theirs, appearing in the magazine just eighteen years ago.

I never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Derleth, nor the late Robert E. Howard nor the incomparable Lovecraft, but have had the luck to make personal acquaintance with most of WEIRD TALES' other writers from A. Merritt on along to Ray Bradbury. And I can testify that there really is the unusual affection and loyalty for the magazine of which Mr. Derleth speaks.

Perhaps it is because so many of us, as was the case with me, had our first published stories appear in WEIRD TALES. Since then, I've been fortunate enough to publish several hundred yarns in many different magazines here and in England, including some in Spanish and Swedish versions which I'm wholly unable to read. But I doubt if all of them together ever gave me the thrill I received when the August, 1926, issue of WEIRD TALES appeared with my "Monster-God of Mamurth."

While I've written quite a lot in the detective, adventure and other fields, I'd rather write fantastic fiction than anything else. I think that's true of nearly all fantasy writers, and explains their devotion to this, the oldest magazine in the field.

I speak as a reader as well as a writer, for