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 imaginative tale of warfare between the worlds and the conquest of our planet by evil beings from the dark side of the moon; the second is a tale of medieval devil-worship and encounters with familiars in the tunnels of Verdun after the World War; the third is a werewolf story, a tale of creeping horror, in which a Mohawk Indian fights to the death with a werewolf on a dolmen in Wales.

It was the popularity of Mr. Quinn's werewolf story that led us to feature The Werewolf of Ponkert, by H. Warner Munn, in last month's issue. The popularity of When the Green Star Waned has caused us to schedule another of Mr. Dyalhis' tales of interstellar spaces for an early issue. Another tale of devil-worship, The Gargoyle, begins next month. It is by Greye La Spina. We want to give you, the readers, such stories as you can get nowhere else, stories that break away from the humdrum workaday world; and we cannot know whether we are succeeding unless you tell us.

Write to The Eyrie,, 408 Holliday Building, Indianapolis, Indiana, and let us know what is your favorite story in this issue. Do you want more horror stories? Or do you want more stress on pseudo-scientific tales, on voyages to other planets, on giant inventions of future ages? Do you like tales of voodoo and witchcraft? Of devil-worship? Of werewolves and vampires? How about a few old-fashioned ghost stories? Let us know what you want, and we will lay out our table of contents accordingly. has firmly established itself, and we feel, therefore, that we are filling a very important place in the magazine world; but we want to give you better and better stories with each issue. We cannot be satisfied unless we grow steadily in quality and literary merit of our stories; and this we can do only with your helpful comment.

The readers' favorite story in the June issue was the concluding installment of Greye La Spina's werewolf serial: Invaders From the Dark; and this tale was closely pressed for first honors by Paul S. Powers' tale of gigantic spiders: Monsters of the Pit.

L. W. Heald, of Osceola, Nebraska, writes: "My friends who have read all agree with me that Invaders From the Dark is the best story that has yet been published between the covers of the finest fictional magazine on the market. For a while here our magazine dealer got but two copies of  and it was always touch and go with us to see who got it first. Now he gets many more, and he has no trouble in selling them, believe me. I enjoy many of your stories, but never before have I so anxiously looked forward to the magazine's coming as I have since this story has been running. I certainly liked the way in which the author concluded it, and the story as a whole held many thrills. It was absorbing and interesting to the last word."

Lieutenant W. J. Stamper, of the Marine Corps, read the May issue on his way to capture the Hawaiian Islands, theoretically held by some foreign enemy, in the recent maneuvers. "I have been very busy," he writes, "but found time to purchase the May issue of which I tucked away in my grip before leaving Frisco. I believe I picked the ideal conditions for reading weird stories. Lying in my bunk, late at night, with the moon peeking through the portholes and no sound save the throbbing of the engines, I devoured every story. That darned creepy thing concocted by Lovecraft, The Music of Erich Zann, knocked me flat. My vote goes unqualifiedly for The Music."

Writes George R. Santos, of New York: "I have just finished the concluding chapters of Greye La Spina's unique Invaders From the Dark, and