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126 The story will be brought to a satisfactory close next month, and the burning question as to whether the occupants of the Sphere reached Earth again will be settled.

Harold Newman, of Portland, Oregon, writes to The Eyrie: "Last January, as I was waiting for a street-car, the wind, blowing harder than usual, forced me to take refuge in a confectionery store. But 'tis an ill wind that blows nobody good, for I saw a copy of in a rack, and out of curiosity picked it up and opened it. Well, I missed three cars before I came out of my 'trance.' Whispering Tunnels was the story I was reading. I bought that magazine and haven't missed a copy since. The stories I have liked best are Servants of Satan, The Horror on the Links, Wings of Power, The Gargoyle, and The Werewolf of Ponkert. The kind I like best are the semi-scientific and the tales of other planets."

Writes Alvin V. Pershing, of Mt. Ayr, Indiana: "The Eternal Conflict, by Nictzin Dyalhis, is absolutely the best story of this kind I have ever read. The Gargoyle by Greye La Spina and The Stolen Body by H. G. Wells in the November issue are rare gems. They are brimful of a sweet and delightful horror, realistic impossibilities, and blissful fiendishness. They thrilied with astral mysticism and uncanny adventure to the last word. When I read Mr. Wells' story I felt all the gruesome and supernatural things that were mentioned when Mr. Bessel was a prisoner in the veiled world into which he dared venture."

"Why not have a popularity contest of writers who have written four or more stories in ?" suggests P. C. McKnight, of Louisville, Kentucky, who adds: "I vote right now for Lovecraft, who is much the best, in my opinion."

Muriel E. Eddy, of Providence, Rhode Island, writes: "Lukundoo, by Edward Lucas White, in your November issue, receives my vote, as it is by far the most noteworthy, really thrilling and chilling tale you have yet published. It calls to my mind a story I read years ago (by a titled Englishman), entitled The Hand of Fate, wherein the unfortunate hero was fatally marked by an Egyptian magician, before his birth, by a snake. The snake began its growth from the birth of the hero, slowly, bit by bit, out of his side, causing his death. In that story no one dared destroy the hideous monster growing from the man's side, as to have done so (some thought) would have caused him to bleed to death."

Writes Richard McDonald, of St. Louis: "I have noticed lately that a number of readers have been telling you to leave out the natural explanations to ghost stories. I, however, am in favor of these explanations, as I think they are the spice of the story. My favorite in the November issue was The Headless Spokesman."

Lester Lucas, of Parkville, Maryland, asks that Nictzin Dyalhis write a sequel to The Eternal Conflict in which the Earthling has further adventures in the celestial realms. "I think your pseudo-scientific stories are wonderfully interesting," he writes; "let us have more of them."

"Your November issue is good," writes Mrs. Margaret Del Percio, of South Amboy, New Jersey, "but I would prefer more short and terrible tales such as The Headless Spokesman or The Fiend of the Seine."

Writes George Murphy, of Philadelphia: "I like the stories of the 'possible but not probable' kind, like When the Green Star Waned and The Wan-