The mag is good, if more ornate
Than was the one for August ult
Direct simplicity, you see,
Makes for a stronger, weirder tale;
Your authors seek verbosity
But that style is (beg pardon!) stale.
Yet sometimes in your mag we find
A tale to which we doff our hats;
An instance that I have in mind
Is Kuttner's yarn, The Graveyard Rats.
Enough of this, however (for
Poetic style I can’t keep up);
I'll close with this: For evermore
Shall Weird Tales take the Mason cup!"
More Ghouls!
Lorne W. Power, of Windsor, Ontario, writes: "Trusting that I am not too new a reader of WT to have my opinions printed in the Eyrie (I started with this year's June issue), I would like to comment on the November number. Midas, by Bassett Morgan, takes the honors for the best story in the issue. Bloch's story was good, but he has done better, The Grinning Ghoul for instance. As for the rest, the shorts were the best. Why not have more stories of ghouls? Almost every other story in your magazine is a vampire yarn, which is all very fine, but the ghoul (my favorite fiction character) is very scarce. I wish you'd reprint The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft, which I once read in an anthology."
A Swell Cover by Brundage
John V. Baitadonis, of Philadelphia, writes: "Congratulations on the November issue! In the first place, there was a swell cover by Brundage; secondly, a Jules de Grandin and a Robert Ervin Howard story in the issue. There's a swell line-up this issue, as, besides the two mentioned above, there are also Paul Ernst, Robert Bloch, and Thorp McClusky. How long will this 'no serial' policy last? Personally, I favor it and hope it will be permanent. . . . The best story in the issue was Seabury Quinn's tale, Witch-House. Robert E. Howard's story, Black Hound of Death, closely followed. I'm glad to see that Quinn will have another story about Jules de Grandin soon. I also am glad to note that Howard will appear in the December issue. Need I say that Finlays illustrations are superb?"
In Appreciation of Howard
Clifford Ball, of Astoria, New York,
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