ement of the supernatural. I would suggest that you keep the nudes off of your covers and send them to some spicy periodical, where they would seem more at home. After all, the thrill of viewing a nude isn't exactly a weird one. The best stories in your June number were The Woman in Gray by W. G. Everett and Together by Ida M. Kier. They are two of the most original and well-done weird stories that I have read in months—and I've read plenty. In the July number, Paul Ernst's Waiter Number 34 was swell. I'm eagerly awaiting his Doctor Satan series."
Quick, Major, the Gong!
Jack Darrow, of Chicago, writes: "Brundage did a nice cover this time. The only fault I could find is that the tangle of figures is a little too messy. Jack Binder did some nice art work for July. I enjoyed The Avenger from Atlantis by Edmond Hamilton very much. . . . Did you notice that Aalla Zaata's story, A Grave Is Five Feet Deep, is called A Grave Must Be Deep on the contents page?" [Thanks, Jack, for calling this egregious blunder to our attention. We are overwhelmed with chagrin, and shall certainly ask Major Bowes to give us the gong. We must have had Theodore Roscoe's story, A Grave Must Be Deep, in our subconscious mind when we prepared the table of contents. Aalla Zaata's original title for the tale was Nothing but the Truth. This was changed to Black Earth of India, but the title A Grave Is Five Feet Deep was the name under which it was finally printed.—The Editor.]
Best Brundage Cover
Lewis F. Torrance, of Winfield, Kansas, writes: "The July issue, having been in my hands some four hours, is perused. It is an improvement over any this year. WT prints only the best, has always done so, and probably always will. The month-to-month alternation of artists is not too advisable. Such conduct put the July issue behind the June artistically. The cover, however, was Brundage's best to date, being mysterious, and at the same time containing the much-quarreled-over female, sparsely draped, with the vile gleam in her eyes. . . . You will probably receive much 'weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth' because she is not clad in less satin. Be that as it may, WT should be the
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