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 may I tell you that story will hold a space in my memory until the day of my death. The story is tremendously vivid and lifelike, and the death of Sophie Delorme has almost made me cry. Greye La Spina is a wonderful author."

George T. Spillman, of Kent, Ohio, put Weird Tales to practical use recently. He is fifteen years old and a senior in high school. "Last week I gave a talk on reincarnation before my classes which astounded the entire high school," he writes. "Ha! most of my information for that talk was gleaned from your story, Under the N-Ray, by Will Smith and R. J. Robbins. That's the kind of story I like; let's have more of them. Your page of contents is a veritable Hall of Fame. I have read nearly every magazine on the market, but none is half as high in my esteem as, not only because I am a lover of the bizarre, but also for the masterly style the authors employ in the stories you choose. It is not only the most interesting pastime I can imagine, but it is also an education to read your magazine. Many of the authors whose names you are displaying will go down the pages of literary history on a par with Poe. Your ghost stories and your werewolves are so convincing that I almost think I believe in both."

Sidney W. Wright, of Fairmont, West Virginia, writes to The Eyrie: "I like your magazine, and one great revelation, to me, is that there are so many splendid writers appearing in your pages, and yet they are, in a sense, 'unknowns'. It is surprizing how much talent goes unheralded."

Walter Goldstein, of New Orleans, writes: "I am an inveterate reader of and up to now have never missed a copy, and have saved all my old copies. I think Whispering Tunnels was the best story I have read in years. Still, The Brain in the Jar ran it a pretty close second.  comes up to all my requirements, and if I do say so myself, I am a pretty particular reader."

Junius B. Smith, author of An Arc of Direction in the June issue, writes: "I wish to congratulate you on the perfect typesetting of this story. It so frequently happens in all-fiction magazines that errors creep in which mutilate the story, that it is a pleasure to find a story set so well that not even a minor defect greets the eye as it is read. I think the magazine is improving in appearance all the time. The cover on the June number easily catches the eye of one interested in things that are weird."

Frank Belknap Long, Jr., writes from New York: "The June cover grows on me! Ye gods!—I cannot imagine a more gigantic, reddish, loathsome or delicious—but I sputter and go out! Andrew Brosnatch is to be congratulated."

An enthusiastic letter to The Eyrie from Edwin R. Matthews, of Seattle, reads: "I want to tell you how utterly thrilled I was by your Anniversary Number. That man Kline has a wonderful imagination to be able to conceive of such a creature as The Malignant Entity, which flowed out of a tub and devoured policemen and then flowed back again. And The Sunken Land, by George Bayly, surely is the cat's pajamas for creeping horror—that great forest of octopuslike trees alive with malignant hate is one of the weirdest conceptions I have ever encountered in a fairly wide reading of weird literature. But for out-and-out masterly handling of a rattling good story theme, that very short story by Edith Lichty Stewart, The Sixth Tree, has anything I ever read faded to a fare-thee-well. That story is literature, and literature of a mighty high type. For sheer merit the stories in your Anniversary Issue are worth many times over the half-dollar I sent for the issue."