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 stands. I seldom have time to read, but when I do I want the stories to take me far away from earthly environments. That's just what does for me and many others."

Writes Marion Clementz, of St. Petersburg, Florida: "Dear Eyrie:— Dern good issue this February one; hope the rest are like it 'cause here's one guy who's gonna read . My choice of this here February issue is The Man Who Cast No Shadow, The Atomic Conquerors and The Unearthly. Drome shore held me tense till I came to the end of part two, and The Star Shell also was good while it lasted. Excuse my slang."

Harold D. Scherer, of Winona, Minnesota, writes to The Eyrie: "A year ago last August I happened to notice a copy of in a magazine shop, and since that time I have not missed a single copy, neither have I missed reading a single story in your wonderful magazine. Interplanetary stories excite my imagination more than any other kind, and I also am very fond of stories of reincarnation."

"Drome grows more wonderful with each succeeding chapter," writes Margaret Harper, of Claymont, Delaware. "It seems plausible enough that a strange land could exist under a great range of mountains. The Sign of the Seven Skulls was certainly weird enough to suit any lover of weird tales, and The Brimstone Cat was certainly out of the ordinary and very entertaining."

"Seabury Quinn's stories," writes Karl Houghton, of Lakewood, Ohio, "are without a doubt above all others, and I wish to say that he has the immortal Poe shoved off the map. The Atomic Conquerors is fine; I only wish we could have more of those tales of dire things that move the whole world to terror, like The Metal Giants and The Abysmal Horror. But The Church Stove at Raebrudafisk is the one I enjoyed most in the February issue. It is stories where minor happenings lead up to fearful results that get my vote for the best stories."

A. W. Oswald, of Syracuse, New York, writes to The Eyrie: "I think that Drome, now in its second installment, is one of the best serial stories yet published, being different from the usual type which have had to do entirely with scientific subjects and materialistic creatures. I hope it doesn't end by having the creatures found under the mountain, remnants of a lost race, but still humans, although I suppose in the end the so-called Angel will fall in love with the scientist, as is usually the case. The Sign of the Seven Skulls was really the best weird story in your last issue; let's have more stories of the Hartz Mountains and the Black Forest."

Mrs. E. M. Burton, of Birmingham, Alabama, chooses three stories as her favorites in the February issue, for the following reasons: "The Man Who Cast No Shadow because it is well written, is clear enough for anyone to understand, and I like that type of story anyway. The Atomic Conquerors because I have never read another story of that exact type, and because, although it is utterly impossible, it is so well written that you almost believe that it is possible. The Sign of the Seven Skulls because it makes the gooseflesh go up and down one's spine and still you read on. Believe me that does not happen always, for a good many so-called 'horror stories' leave a 'bad taste in the mouth.

"By all means continue to publish reprints," urges George I. Foster, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Cleveland, Ohio, "for such writers as Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving are al-