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 their artillery upon the sex-exploiting magazines that are crowding the best magazines out of place on our news stands? Anyway, a mind that can go undiseased through that so-called literature should be able to survive the pleasantly exhilarating 'kick' of a good horror tale. There can be no question as to the literary status of In it have appeared stories worthy of Kipling himself, to say nothing of Poe."

"I believed [sic] is the best magazine published," writes Paul J. Schwartz, of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, in a letter to The Eyrie, "and any change in it would tend to spoil everything."

Writes Robert Leeds, of Clifton, New Jersey: "I think that is very interesting and thrilling. With me its action is like that of the pudding of which the boy said, 'It tastes like more.' Often I find myself wishing that the magazine was published daily, or at least weekly."

The Reverend L. A. Crittenton, of Cairo, Illinois, suggests: "Why not have a vote on the best story that has appeared in Weird Tales since its first appearance? I personally have enjoyed all, but remember, as outstanding, The Abysmal Horror and Invaders From Outside. I most certainly cast my vote that the magazine maintain its present character and that the tales be not modified to suit more timid dispositions."

Mrs. F. C. Harris, of Fairfield, Iowa, writes to The Eyrie: "I have always been an interested reader of . I like the type of stories which you print. In my opinion they are very much more wholesome than the sex stories of today, which are prevalent in nearly every other magazine. I am very partial to the astronomical and pseudo-scientific tales, though I enjoy most of the horror tales, too."

Willis A. Milspaw, of Philadelphia, writes: "Last Wednesday at 5 P. M., on my way home, hungry, I bought at the subway station, and began the first story: When the Green Star Waned. Changed cars. Presently everyone began to leave the car. I looked out and found we were at the end of the line, several squares beyond my stop. When a story is good enough to take me past dinner, it is good."

"I am thankful to see a magazine that is not about love and such stuff, for a change," writes Mrs. M. Gregory, of Chicago. "There is nothing whatever disgusting or 'nauseating' about Weird Tales. It is all right as it is."

Writes Ed. Schultz, of Buffalo, New York: "The April is better than ever. Keep up the real horror stuff. Cut out serials if you can. Let's have more planetary stories. The best in the April issue were: When the Green Star Waned and The Wind That Tramps the World."

And here is a knock, adroitly combined with a boost, from Mrs. Lilia May Savino, of Portsmouth, Virginia: "I want to state that you have got a serial now in the fascinating story, Invaders From the Dark. We are all worked up over it. I have a rose for The Wind That Tramps the World and Back From Dust. But I want to beg of you, dear editor, please, please, never give us any more such vulgar, unsavory stories as The Haunting Eyes. Give us weird tales a-plenty—transmigrations of souls, ghost, fish and snake stories, but in the name of all that is decent give us clean stories. Thus far our magazine has been a clean publication."

Miss Rae Mendell, of Philadelphia, writes: "Although I am not a subscriber to, yet I never miss a single copy, and can hardly wait for each new issue."

Writes James N. Graham, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania: "I would enjoy very much another story on the fourth dimension—a very interesting topic. Scientific stories are always more than welcome; also horror and vampire