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for it is redolent of Oriental perfumes, and breathes the intoxicating fragrance of the East. There are two subjects on which this expert swordsman and former soldier of fortune can discourse by the hour with winged words that make time fly past so quickly that half a night is consumed before one realizes that it has begun, and these are the Orient and its rugs. You have admired his Oriental stories in the pages of this magazine, but this is the first rug story he has written.
"I wonder if someone won't write about a snake migration of some sort," suggests Mrs. W. Lange, of Astoria, Oregon, in a letter to The Eyrie. "There actually was one at Klamath Falls, Oregon, in 1909. I've heard it was terrifying, but as I was only three at the time I don't remember it."
"The Dark Chrysalis is my idea of a truly weird tale, mingling fact with fiction, being well written, and convincing," writes Hollin Coleman-Smith, of Los Angeles. "Each chapter or part rises to a gripping climax of its own. Somebody mentioned in a letter to The Eyrie," he adds, "that he or she did not care for stories pertaining to the destruction of our sphere. On the contrary, narratives embracing such huge happenings are fully enjoyed fully the majority of your readers."
"Just a few lines to tell you flow much I have enjoyed the August issue of Weird Tales," writes William E. Venable, of Anniston, Alabama. "All the stories were riproaring good, but The Bride of Osiris outstands all the rest, with The Man With a Thousand Legs a close second. Please give us more stories of the type that Edmond Hamilton writes, as his-stories are in a class by themselves. Mark me down as a reader who wants Weird Tales twice a month."
G. Muder, of Pittsburgh, writes to The Eyrie: "Satan's Fiddle in the August Weird Tales far excels any story that I have read for some time. It excels at every point—a very unusual story. If it were issued in pamphlet form it would create a sensation in musical circles. It would be a loss to musical literature if this story is not given the widest publicity."
There have been many letters of enthusiastic commendation of Mr. Malcolm-Smith's unusual story of the cosmic chord, mid we regret we have not space to print them all.
"You publish such magnificent stories in Weird Tales that it is hard to make a choice," writes Eugene L. Middleton, of Los Angeles. "Jules de Grandin and his adventures are almost always inexpressibly good, particularly The Curse of Everard Maundy in the July issue. I have recently started to mark all the stories in Weird Tales, in the table of contents, as I read them, with short criticisms in shorthand in the margin, and a series of X's to show how good they were in my estimation. For instance, one X means the story was good enough to attract my attention; two that it was very good;
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