discrimination, and all in all you may say to the other publishers in the words of Shelley's Ozymandias: 'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' There is one discordant note, however: the drawings to illustrate the text are bad."
William Bradford, of Cleveland, Ohio, writes to The Eyrie: "The first story I ever read in Weird Tales was Out of the Long Ago, by Seabury Quinn. Since then I have bought every issue. Jules de Grandin is one of your most interesting and entertaining characters. Sometimes the plots are a little far-fetched, but the story is always told in such style, with occasional humor and scientific theories mixed into the mystery, which carry the interest to the last word. In fact, I have not yet found a story in Weird Tales that did not have its good points, and this fact reflects much credit upon your judgment in weeding out the uninteresting stories. I appreciate Weird Tales because I can begin a story, confident that it has something in it, and that I won't lose interest and throw it away before finishing it."
Mrs. F. C. Harris, of Lakewood, Ohio, writes: "The quality of your magazine is improving steadily. The Metal Giants, The Star Shell and The Grinning Mummy are my choice for the three best stories in the December issue."
Writes Alice M. Huffman, of Indianapolis: "I am a constant reader of Weird Tales and enjoy the stories immensely as I consider them a relief from the monotony of the humdrum stories featured by most other magazines. I really can't say which type of stories I like best in your magazine, but I think the scientific stories are great. I certainly enjoy all the stories of Jules de Grandin and the tales of strange beasts."
Harry Levin, of Cleveland, Ohio, writes to The Eyrie: "While waiting for the car this morning I bought the latest Weird Tales. It contains a story which I think is the best that has been published for the last two years. It is a knockout. The Metal Giants by Edmond Hamilton is the story I mean. Give us more stories by Hamilton."
"Your last two numbers are just about the best I have ever read," writes R. K. Barnes, of Vassar, Michigan. "The Metal Giants was immense. I am especially fond of scientific and astronomical stories, but as a whole I enjoy Weird Tales all the way through. Without doubt I find it the most interesting magazine on the news stands today. But why publish 'Weird Story Reprints' when your own modern writers have the older ones outclassed?"
Writes Jack Snow, of Dayton, Ohio: "There is no mistaking the finest story in the December Weird Tales. It is The Metal Giants, by Edmond Hamilton. The author has a gift accorded to few writers—that of relating an imaginative scientific tale with sincerity and not with the usual hackneyed artificiality to be found in character and action of such stories."
Carl Ballard, of Danville, Virginia, writes to The Eyrie: "The stories I like are pseudo-scientific stories, devil-worship, black magic, tales of reincarnation and stories of the gods of old, Osiris, Isis, Pan, Jupiter, etc. I do not care much for ghost stories. When is Munn going to give us that sequel to The Werewolf of Ponkert in which he promised us the Black Master would come back?"
J. R. Walsh, of East Orange, New Jersey, asks: "Have any of your authors ever been in that hot-bed of witchcraft, Abyssinia? Do they know of the wailing spirit called Bouda? Metamorphosis happens to be a capital crime in Abyssinia, and also in Italian Somaliland. One sees strange things
