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HE sales of continue to climb, and an increasing number of readers is attracted each month to this magazine of bizarre and unusual stories. We are eager to see the sales climb still higher, for we take prides in the magazine, and the more extensive the circulation is, the better the magazine will become. Wet want the help of you, the readers, in making the magazine better and better. You can give this help by continued and constructive criticism. Just what would you suggest, readers, to make the magazine still better? Write to The Eyrie and let us know in what way you would like your magazine improved, and your letters will receive very careful study. We think we have in a top-notch magazine, and the flood of letters from you, the readers, as well as the rapid growth of the magazine, strengthens this belief; but we realize there are numberless ways in which the magazine can be made still better, and we welcome suggestions from you; for this is your magazine.

The discussion keeps up as to whether we should continue to print one weird tale of the past each month in our "Weird Story Reprint" section, and this month, for the first time, those who are opposed to the reprints have made a good showing, though they are still greatly in the minority.

"Your reprints are old and stale, dry and very uninteresting," writes Ralph C. Hartman, of Portsmouth, Virginia, "and you are ruining your magazine with serials. Cut out the reprints and serials."

Writes F. O. Rogers, of Washington, D. C.: "Allow me to congratulate you upon your choice of reprint in the story Lazarus. It is the best story published in for the past two years."

George Montague, of Trenton, New Jersey, writes to The Eyrie: "Your reprints I do not care so much about, but your other stories are 'way above par. I have just finished reading the first installment of Explorers Into Infinity. It is a wonderfully gripping tale, well told. For years your magazine has been my chief reading matter. Of course my brother claims he 'discovered' it, but I know I did."

As to the reprints, J. K. Sears, of Galveston, Texas, writes: "Truly there is no accounting for individual letters. All this talk about cutting out Poe's stories and the reprint department 'for the sake of a long-suffering public' is unworthy of intelligent human beings. is a wonderful fount of pleasure to all of us who enjoy weird fiction; don't spoil the reputation you have gained. Keep it weird, by all means."

Lorena Loekhard, of Los Angeles, writes to The Eyrie: "For over two