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It is too early as yet to publish the readers' verdict on the stories in our November issue, for the present number of Weird Tales goes to press before the preceding issue is on the news stands. We are eager to know which stories you, the readers, like best, to guide us in our future selection. This magazine belongs to you, and we are going to take a poll each month of your likes and dislikes.
Of the twenty-three stories in this issue, which one do you enjoy the most? Send in your choice to The Eyrie, Weird Tales. And if there are any stories that you don't like, we want to know which ones, and why you don't like them. Frank criticism is weleomed, because Weird Tales is a magazine for its readers. In The Eyrie next month we will print the results of the readers' poll of stories in the November issue; and the stories that win first place in your. favor in the present issue will be tabulated in The Eyrie in February. We will also discuss the readers' verdict on C. M. Eddy, Jr.'s, "The Loved Dead" and C. Franklin Millers' "The Hermit of Ghost Mountain," about which we asked your opinion last month.
Weird Tales has undoubtedly printed a greater number of strikingly original stories than any other magazine in the same space of time. It has given to the world stories of such absolute literary merit as "The Rats in the Walls," by H. P. Lovecraft; "The Great Adventure," by Bryan Irvine; and "The Desert Lich," by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. In its columns have appeared such imaginative pseudo-scientifie stories as "Ooze," by Anthony M. Rud; "The Moon Terror," by A. G. Birch; and "The Abysmal Horror," by B. Wallis; and such unusual and varied works of fiction as "Lucifer," John D. Swain's artistic tale of devil-worship in London; "The Phantom Farmhouse," Seabury Quinn's fascinating werewolf tale; "Beyond the Door," Paul Suter's shadowy tale of death and eery horror; and many others of striking originality and strength—stories that vie with Poe and Jules Verne, and take the reader into a land of fantasy and imagination whither no other magazine dares follow.
That there is a real field for such a magazine as Weird Tales is evident from the letters that continue to pour in asking that the magazine return to the news stands. Letters are still coming in, praising the large 50-cent Anniversary Issue (dated May-June-July), although it is four months since that issue was published. There are a few copies of the Anniversary Issue still on hand, and these will be sent to any address for fifty cents each while the supply lasts.
