that a fascinating weird novelette by Greye La Spina, A Suitor From the Shades, will be printed complete in one of our forthcoming issues.
Writes Carl Wharton, of Wyncote, Pa.: "Mr. Long's verse in the August issue is rather fine. I wonder if he is Celtic. Somehow its subtle beauty suggests the mystic and romantic imagery of some of the Irish contemporaries."
Lilia Price Savino, of Portsmouth, Va., writes: "In suggesting reprints, I request Poe's The Black Cat. I have heard so much about it, and my brother told me not to read it as it scared him into a spasm when he was a youngster."
Mrs. Harry A. Wenz writes from Cincinnati: "I wish you would print more of such stories as Four Wooden Stakes, The Statement of Randolph Carter, etc., and the more necrophilic tales, the better."
Errol McCallum writes from Toronto: "My selection of stories are those which deal with inventions of the future, voyages to other planets, etc. Stories such as When the Green Star Waned and The Moon Terror were splendid. Will you not arrange to have one of these included every month?"
A letter from Casper, Wyoming, by Mrs. Y. F. B., says: "I, too, like Miss E. F., like the stories about quicksand pits, swamps and their denizens, snakes, spiders, queer plants, poisons, apes, and doctors' experiments. Let us have more of them in Weird Tales."
Vivien McAllister, of Portland, Oregon, writes: "I read everything I can lay my hands upon but nothing sets my nerves a-tingling and my imagination rioting so much as a copy of Weird Tales. I can not lay them down, once I have started, until every story has been read. I revel in the gruesome adventures and uncanny happenings of these brain children. Each story in the September issue is a masterpiece, but I believe I shall cast my vote as follows: 1. The Furnished Room, because of the beautiful sentiment in it and its dash of the supernatural; 2. The Sultan's Jest, for its fiendish cruelty; 3. The Flying Halfback, for its spicy impossibility."
Writes A. V. Pershing, of Odon, Indiana: "In my opinion your magazine is one of the most mind-broadening, intellect-awakening, and instructive magazines on the market. I especially like the weird tales that involve pure science or imaginative science."
There was hardly a story in the September issue that did not receive several votes as favorite story. However, the leaders in popular favor are The Sultan's Jest, by E. Hoffmann Price, and The Terrific Experiment, by Hurley von Ruck. If you have any favorites in the present issue, write and let us know. Address your letter to The Eyrie, Weird Tales, 408 Holliday Building, Indianapolis, Indiana.
We have received a story called Pity Me! from one of our younger readers, a story that is altogether so delightful and interesting that we feel we must let you see it. The young lady who wrote it has not yet attained the literary polish and maturity of style that come only after years of writing, but she has imagination and enthusiasm, and achieves a gruesome effect that reminds us of the old English ballad of The Gay Lady Who Went to Church, with its doleful lines:
"On looking up, on looking down,
She saw a dead man on the ground;
And from his nose unto his chin,
The worms crawled out, the worms crawled in."
