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 you publish reprints at intervals of two months rather than abandon them altogether."

"Hello, Eyrie," writes Will T. Heideman, of New Ulm, Minnesota. "Say, folks, you know all about how a hypnotist can cast a spell over you and all that stuff. Well, that's just how I find . After I had read my first copy of it, over a year ago, the spell first fell on me. I couldn’t keep from getting the magazine every month; and unlike other magazines I read every single one of the stories in each copy."

Here comes a knock, flavored with a prefatory boost: "Your stories always have been incomparable in the wonders of imagination," writes Mrs. N. Large, of Eugene, Oregon, "but Soul-Catcher, in the March issue, was, to me, an incredibly childish tale. There was no object to the story—in fact no excuse for its being written. If the writer had gone on and told why the doctor captured those souls he might have made a story. If the surgeon had captured the souls in order to people a universe of his own, in order to send them back into animals to study the outcome or had hoped to teach these souls in some manner and send them into the other world to learn there and return to him, imparting their information—in other words, using them as a connecting link between the outer world and ourselves, we would have been treated to a mighty interesting story."

Ross L. Bralley, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, asks: "Why can't we have an authors' contest in which the most popular author would be awarded a prize, popularity to be determined by vote of the readers? I'll say here that in my opinion your two best authors are Seabury Quinn and Edmond Hamilton. The latter can write some of the most outlandish scientific stories and make you think you are reading the truth."

Readers, your favorite story in the March issue, as shown by your votes, is The City of Glass, by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr., which was closely pressed for first honors by Edmond Hamilton's Evolution Island. What is your favorite story in this issue?

MY FAVORITE STORIES IN THE MAY WEIRD TALES ARE :

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I do not like the following stories:

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Why?