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continues the Lovecraft tradition of 'Elder God' tales. Good boy, August. Keep it up. Ball's The Swine ofÆeaea was good—better than his other tales. I never was a super-fan of the Conan-type fantasy. Kuttner's The Transgressor was delightful May I request the reprinting of Robert W. Chambers' appropriate short fantasies which appeared in The King in Yellow and The Maker of Moons? Also the excerpt from another of his tales—The Dark Star, I think, is the title—dealing with the gods Derleth mentioned in Hastur. In the reprint section I suggest little-known hard-to-locate tales (not reprinted in anthologies.)"

Basil H. Appleyard writes from London: "I have only recently been introduced to your magazine and would like to express my appreciation of the really splendid matter which it contains. Over here in England it is rather difficult to obtain regular supplies and I am eagerly awaiting my new agent's next consignment. Ther is no doubt about it, I shall have to become a regular subscriber Finlay's illustration are unspeakably real and weird, and the work he puts into them must be colossal. I have only one grouse against the magazine—it should be three times as large, and also it is a hellish thing to be reading by candlelight whilst watching over someone who is doing his best to croak, which was my job a short while ago."

Clark Ashton Smith write from his home in California: "The March issue of WT is certainly and excellent one. The Metal Chamber, The Swine of Æaea, The Return of Hastur, and The Quest of Iranon are all notably good. And I mustn't forget the reprint of Bassett Morgan's brain-surgery horror, The Devils of Po Sung, which still remains one of the best stories ever written on that theme."

E. B. Hardy writes from Lewiston, Maine: "Quite an interesting cover this month. I hardly got a chance to read the stories, with