Doctor Satan shifts the scene of his weird crimes to the movie colony in Hollywood. There he perpetrates a ghastly horror, so terrible, so undreamed-of, that the film actors and executives are gripped in the icy clutch of stark panic terror. On this scene suddenly appears Ascott Keane, the world's most capable criminologist; and the struggle between these two titanic figures makes a thrill-story that will hold your breathless interest.
Meet them now: the mysterious and sinister figure who calls himself Doctor Satan, the world's weirdest criminal; and Ascott Keane, the world's strangest crime-fighter. This compelling and breath-taking story will be published complete
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proudest pulp on the ladder of magazine fame. The greatest surprize was to learn of the coming of Montgomery to Weird Tales. Literarily, Anne of Green Gables was a success—if only her weird fiction is as good. The two translated German narratives added literary spice to the magazine of weird fiction. . . . Give us more from Robert Bloch, and his colleagues of horror, C. L. Moore and Frank B. Long, Jr."
The Avenger from Atlantis
G. H. January, of Memphis, writes: "That grand July issue that I've just finished has inspired me to write another letter. If the remainder of the pages had been blank, that marvelous story, The Avenger from Atlantis, would have filled the need capably. I have never read a story by Mr. Hamilton that I enjoyed half as much as I did his latest. You may be certain that it will go down on my 'preferred' list with such other masterpieces as The Woman of the Wood, The Phantom Farmhouse, and the King Kull fantasies. Incidentally, don't let Conan (enjoyable as he is) replace the colorful heroes of the Shadow Kingdom. The Death Cry I found a very well-written and entertaining detective story but sadly lacking in eery qualities. Again I sound the age-old chant—Keep Weird Tales weird. As to the nudes on the cover, I have found many of them that added to the idea of the magazine and were really splendid, while others with their excessive voluptuousness made the magazine appear a cheaper type. Let's keep our nudes but keep them in reason. Here's hoping for another issue like the July."
Science Fiction
Clifford Shine, of Denver, writes: "I want to enter into the discussions in the Eyrie. I am for nudes and against The Death Cry. And I wish to say that I think weird-scientific stories should remain in WT. The argument against them is that there are several magazines devoted to them already; however, I don't think they do as good a job as WT. Perhaps the readers remember Corsairs of the Cosmos in WT. If you do, I think you will agree that no story ever printed in the science-fiction magazines was anything like it. Neither did I ever see in those magazines a story like Rulers of the Future or The Man Who Was Two Men. These stories take up science fiction where
