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 or not Banaotovitch is still alive. That's the kind of a thrill I like."

Hamilton's Serial

B. M. Reynolds, of North Adams, Massachusetts, writes: "You were certainly fortunate in securing that splendid yarn The Lake of Life by Edmond Hamilton, an exceptional piece of fantasy of the A. Merritt type, worthy of taking its place beside those two fine fantastic novels: Williamson's Golden Blood and Kelley's The Last Pharaoh. I believe that these stories will always be remembered by us, the readers.... Second best story in September was The Ho-Ho-Kam Horror. Stories of this type are particularly effective when written in diary form, and Mr. Bryan did a good job with this one. Good build-up and abrupt ending. Not a bit far-fetched, either, as Superstition Mountain, the heaven of the rattlesnakes, is a very real and tangible locality, as any Pueblo or Navajo Indian will attest, and the place is most certainly 'taboo,' at least for the white man. Psychopompos by the late genius H. P. Lovecraft was certainly unique, serving to make us realize still more the great talent that was lost by his untimely death.... Oh yes, I nearly forgot to compliment Henry Kuttner on H. P. L., his grand tribute to Lovecraft, the finest piece of poetry since Howard wrote A Song Out of Midian about ten years ago!"

End of the Abyss

J. A. Murphy, of Augusta, Georgia, writes: "My, my, now just look what you have gone and done! Last month upon reading The Abyss Under the World I just knew that you had found another one that could be placed with the best of them. I went by the news stand every day or two waiting for the September issue to come in, and when I did get it, I had to read the finis of The Abyss Under the World before I even came home. And what do I find upon reading it but that you let J. Paul Suter go and put an ending like that on it! Why does anyone have to be like that? Now if they had really been transplanted into another world, and had followed the priest in his jump into the abyss, I think everyone would have been happier, because there would have been more thrills to come."