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Rh reasons of the inconceivable fourth dimension and by self-consistent hypotheses and logic deals logically with impossibility. It is this self-consistency, lacked by many horror-mongers, that makes Lovecraft more unusual than Poe; for Poe kept one foot on earth, whereas Lovecraft swings boldly into the unreal, pinions fully spread. We listen to the music of Erich Zann, we follow Randolph Garter to his sepulchral doom, we live in tombs, we attend strange festivals where the waiting guests read the Necronomicon unreality made real."

Writes Aaron Cowan, of Monongahela, Pennsylvania: "Please print more stories of weird scientific inventions. Red Ether is indeed a mysterious tale. For the reprints I suggest The Ring of Thoth, by A. Conan Doyle."

Fred W. Fischer, Jr., of Knoxville, Tennessee, writes to The Eyrie: "Please give us more stories about trips to other planets, strange voyages of any type, tales of animals raised to gigantic size, and scientific tales, but less of 'humorous' tales, such as The Wicked Flea."

Other readers have objected to humorous stories like The Wicked Flea on the grounds that; even though the story was very interesting, it was not a "weird tale." Writes Daniel Shaw Matson, of Douglas, Arizona: "I can find no fault with any of the stories you publish unless it be those like The Wicked Flea. Humorous tales can not be weird. I especially like the pseudo-scientific stories in Why don't you print The Bottle Imp by Stevenson in your Weird Story Reprints?"

Writes Joseph Rawles, of Boonville, California: " [sic], I think, is the best magazine in print. Unlike any other magazine, it is untiresome; every story holds you to the end."

Kenneth A. Mobley, of Wheeling, West Virginia, writes to The Eyrie: "In my opinion is the best and most interesting magazine on the market. If I had any children I would not hesitate an instant in letting them read it. It is clean and has no hint of sex as most popular magazines have. There is only one way in which I think you can improve it, and that is by printing more stories of the Jules Verne type, about other planets and trips to the center of the Earth, etc."

Writes Ross L. Bralley, of Oklahoma City: "The February issue was better than any issue I have read so far. The Waning of a World was excellent and the end very good. I was impressed all the way through by the reality of the story; it seemed as if it were a matter of fact. However, if Mars is inhabited I doubt if humans like Earth-beings exist there. By all means give us more stories of this kind. And I hope you will continue to give us more creepy, thrilling, gooseflcsh stories in which a logical explanation is more or less veiled, as in ghost stories."

Lewis F. Ball, of Havre de Grace, Maryland, writes to The Eyrie: "Just a word of applause and appreciation for the February number. The Isle of Missing Ships was superb; Red Ether is very promising; but my favorite was The Kidnaper's Story. I surely am glad to see more of Lovecraft's stories appearing—they are gems and he is my favorite author by all odds."

Emmett A. Rebholz, of St. Louis, writes to The Eyrie: "Here's three big cheers and a tiger for . It can't be beat for honest-to-goodness, creepy, blood-curdling, ghostly stories. The February issue is a wow, through and through. The Isle of Missing Ships by Seabury Quinn is a thriller all the way through, and is just the kind of story that I like. On the Dead Man's Chest is another knockout as far as it has gone. There