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E ARE going to turn The Eyrie this month entirely over to you, the readers. We feel that our stories are satisfying you, as each month shows a steady increase in circulation over the preceding months; but it is only through your continued interest in the magazine that we can keep it in accord with your wishes. So if you like any stories particularly well, let us know which ones. What is your favorite story in this issue? If there are any stories that you do not like, be sure to let us know; for belongs to its readers, and we want to give you the kind of stories that you like. And we are unable to tell what stories you like unless you let us know. Send in your suggestions as to what kind of stories you think Weird Tales should publish. Address your letter to The Eyrie,, 408 Holliday Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Robert E. Howard, of Cross Plains, Texas, writes concerning Mr. Quinn's stories of Jules de Grandin: "These are sheer masterpieces. The little Frenchman is one of those characters who live in fiction. I look forward with pleasurable anticipations to further meetings with him."

C. S. Baker, of Washington, D. C., writes: " is the only magazine that I buy regularly, and every story is a thriller."

August Derleth, Jr., of Sauk City, Wisconsin, writes: "Is it possible to get more stories by H. P. Lovecraft and to have one of David Baxter's nature tales in every issue? I find Frank Owen's tales delightfully fantastic, while Greye La Spina's stories are gems of sinister menace. I wish to repeat E. L. Middleton's plea for 'a few old-fashioned ghost stories' and the reprint of Algernon Blackwood's The Willows."

Paul Hern, of Manhattan, Kansas, writes: "I greatly enjoyed the bat story by David Baxter, Nomads of the Night. Get more of these."

Mrs. Lila Le Clair, of Templeton, Massachusetts, writes: "I never could get really interested in the popular magazines until I was in a store and happened to see on the stand. So I decided to try it, thinking I'd probably read a few pages and cast it aside. But believe me, every page was a thriller, and such chills of delighted horror as I had never had before chased up and down my spine. Give us more blood-curdling and ghost stories, and keep the magazine as it is, for it surely is a cracker jack."

"More pseudo-scientific stories and more H. G. Wells stories," writes Cecil Fuller, of Tulare, California. "I hope you will use The Time Machine as one of your reprints, as it is the best weird story Wells has written."

Miss Alton Davis, of Memphis, Tennessee, writes: "Seabury Quinn's 272