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Rh And the third letter, which arrived in the same mail that brought the first two, came from the author himself:

We almost dislike to print this last one—it's too much like pinning a medal on our coat—but we can plead, in extenuation, that the excellence of Mr. Suter's story was not due to our editing, or printer's directions, or anything of the sort, but solely to his splendid craftsmanship. He wrote a good story and we published it, and no amount of editing could have made it any better.

If you failed to read "Beyond the Door" we earnestly recommend that you do so now. In either case, don't miss his next story. It is called "The Guard of Honor," and is fully as "creepy" as the first—and you will find it in the next issue of WEIRD TALES.

Suter is a coming writer. No doubt of that. And since he tells us, "I would rather write horror stories than anything else," we hope to publish the best of his work.

E'VE ransacked a bale of Letters to the Editor in an effort to find some not sweet with praise! and we've found only two, and here they are:

Ouch!

Luckily, though, not all our readers disrelished "The Whispering Thing." For instance:

With regard to the poetic effusion that follows, we're not sure whether "Witch Hazel" is spoofing us or having a spasm of ecstasy. At any rate, we'll take a chance and print the thing just as she wrote it:

E'VE scores of flattering letters here, but we're not going to print them all [prolonged and loud applause], because, for one thing, we haven't space, and, for another, we have a sneaking suspicion that our delight in reading them is not always shared by others. So we'll run only five or six more, and call it a day.

"Dear sir: I asked my newsdealer for something different in the magazine line today, and he handed me a copy of the April WEIRD TALES. I've read many so-called mystery stories, but none can compare with those I found in your magazine. It is something altogether new and most fascinating. I especially enjoyed 'The Snake Fiend' and 'The