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 to accept the advice of L. Phillips, Jr., of Berkeley, California, to cut out tales of the grave and the dead. I'm sure it doesn't hurt the dead any to write fiction concerning the grave." He adds that "H. P. Lovecraft and Alice I. Fuller are reaching out for the laurels of Poe."

Mrs. Jean Hursh, of San Francisco, writes: "I have just finished reading and rereading the latest copy of in an endeavor to decide which story pleased me the most. They are each one so interesting that it is a difficult question to decide. I think it is the very best copy that has yet been published, and I can scarcely say which I like better—Whispering Tunnels by Stephen Bagby or A Broken Lamp-Chimney by Arthur J. Burks, but after considerable thinking I believe A Broken Lamp-Chimney is the best of all."

Just what story do YOU consider the best in this issue? Send in the name of your favorite to The Eyrie,, 317 Baldwin Building, Indianapolis, Indiana. This is your magazine, and we want to know which stories you prefer, so that we can keep the magazine in accord with your wishes. And if there are stories in this issue that you do not like, tell us about them. We want to know what you think of us, for better or for worse.

W. R. Gass, of Knoxville, Tennessee, writes: "In all sincerity I wish to say that is all that its name implies; please keep it the same. In short, it is the only magazine I have ever read that once I begin, it is hard for me to quit until I have read all the stories. The more weird, the merrier for me."

C. O. Hesselberth, of Toluca, Illinois, writes: "Your unique magazine fills a gap in modern literature better than any other attempt has ever done, and I must add that some of the excellent tales, such as those by H. P. Lovecraft, must, I feel, go down as classics with the immortal Poe."

Ralph Roberts, of Los Angeles, fears the magazine may fall away from its standard, and writes: "Do not change the principle of your wonderful magazine for the few who cannot stand good eery fiction. Keep the magazine weird."

Frederic Raynbird, a farmer at Bulwark, Alberta, writes: "Have just discovered at the local store, and now I'll never be without it. It surely is a right royal diversion from the ordinary."

Harold S. Farnese, of Los Angeles, writes: "I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your magazine. It may not suit everybody's taste, but it is a great relief from mushy love-stories, Western thrillers, and the money magazines in which millionaires confide in an unsophisticated public how they managed to pile up their millions. Louise Garwood's Fayrian, in the February issue, is a marvel of stylistic dexterity and reads like a poem."

But here we have come to the end of The Eyrie, without letting you see a tithe of the letters we have received. Just a word in closing: in next month's issue some of the biggest guns will roar for the delectation of the readers of Weird Tales. In addition to Burks, Owen and Quinn, you will have stories by the four big L's—La Spina, Leahy, Long and Lovecraft. Leahy has not appeared in these columns since the concluding installment of his serial novel, Draconda, in the Anniversary Issue. He has a short story this time—a pseudo-scientific tale called The Voices From the Cliff.