ghosts or ghouls or the devil himself. The story was rather annoyingly indefinite.
"One of the best stories ever published in Weird Tales was The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton (October, 1923). It was a fascinating tale of astral personalities leaving their bodies, and was very logical and reasonable. There is one thing which seems to be a necessary part of almost all of the 'astral' stories published in Weird Tales, and that is that one or more of the astral personalities has such a mean and stinking disposition. This criticism does not apply to The Amazing Adventure of Joe Scranton, but to Adventures of an Astral (March, 1925), and to several others. I wonder if it would not be possible for an astral to swap bodies for awhile and still act decently.
"For reprint, I vote for The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood. For sheer subtleness and beauty, I think it is one of the greatest stories ever written."
Writes Colin Ross from his theater dressing room: "No other magazine can ever gain the hold on me that your publication has. My profession (the theater) gives me many dull moments of leisure which to my notion can be filled in no better nor more satisfactory way than reading Weird Tales. Dull, confined hotel rooms become spaces of mystery and adventure when that magazine is near. The August issue is excellent. There is nothing to condemn but much to applaud. Only please keep Weird Tales weird! I notice a great scarcity of the good old-fashioned ghost stories. Give us some of those."
T. A. Fardon, of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, writes: "I expect that some of these tales will start the hair growing on my one bald spot. As tomahawks—to raise the scalp—they can not be beaten; and as chill producers to offset fever the M. D. has nothing better."
"The August Weird Tales was surely a good number," writes Miss Elizabeth O'Brien, of Chicago. "I just loved The Lantern-Maker. I vote for stories of werewolves and vampires, pseudo-scientific tales and loads of stories of Haiti.
Catherine Howard, of South Bend, Indiana, writes to The Eyrie: "Even though I have been reading Weird Tales for more than two years, I get more and more enthused over each and every new number. This seems to be the magazine among the Notre Dame students. Every time I get on the Notre Dame car around the first of the month I see fellows eagerly absorbed in reading Weird Tales—all sorts of fellows, little green freshies up to the sedate seniors, and it seems to be a great favorite of the world-famed 'Four Horsemen.' Believe me, I am rooting for Weird Tales everywhere I go."
Gordon R. Pugh, of Toronto, writes: "The August issue did not reach Toronto till the day before yesterday, and you can believe me I was just about pining away for the bode. I cast my vote for The Purple Cincture—it is the best frightful story I ever read. Hope you give us some more stories about the other planets."
Writes Glenn Craig, of Baxter Springs, Kansas: "I had always somehow despised reading until by chance I purchased your Anniversary Number of Weird Tales last year. Since that time I have been a constant reader, and have enjoyed in this magazine some of the best stories I have ever read or heard. They are always so clean cut and so well developed that they are gripping to the last word."
What is your favorite story in the present issue? Send in your vote to The Eyrie, Weird Tales, 408 Holliday Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.
