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The Authors
Two of the authors whose stories are featured in this May Weird Tales have sent in some interesting sidelights on their stories and themselves.
P. Schuyler Miller and Frank Owen are the writers. If you haven't already read John Cawder's Wife and The Man Who Amazed Fish in this issue, we think you've got a treat, two treats, in store for you.
Mr. Miller says he is a reader of Weird Tales from quite sometime back. He explains his interesting way of working up the story idea. But really now, Mr. Miller, is it as easy as you make it sound below?
It comes as a distinct shock to me to realize that I very probably rank now as an old reader of Weird Tales. As a farm boy I had been brought up on a diet of Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard, but it was not until we moved to the city to permit me to enter high school that I saw my first copy of Weird Tales in a newsstand window. I remember vividly the huge spider on the cover, and watched that window faithfully for what must have been more than a year before I got up courage to buy my first copy. I've never stopped and never will, if I can help it.
That first issue had in it Edmond Hamilton's first story, "Monster God of Mamurth" and a serial by Greye La Spina, and not long after, if my memory is still good, came Merritt's "Woman of the Wood." I only wish that I could go to my bookshelf and check on that memory, but an early tragedy in my
