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THE EYRIE

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and "Dark Rosaleen" was fair (!); beyond that there wasn't much.

However there were two features which gave me some hope: "The Eyrie" and the Wellman. I've always regretted that you dropped "The Eyrie." Your reasons didn't seem worth much either. January, 1950, gives hopes of a possible return.

W. H. Baxter.

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The Editor
WEIRD TALES
9 Rockefeller Plaza
New York 20, N. Y.

Let me tell you frankly—I disagree with you. I've got enough letters published in other magazines so that I don't care too much whether this one is published—partially or wholly—in the "Eyrie," but I do disagree with you in regard to your admitted policy of omitting tabulated story preferences. For if it is the editor whom the author must please, and the readers be hanged; ultimately—it is the readers whom the editor must please.

I missed the last WT, it seems, but merely because I have to journey a couple of miles to get it. However, I was surprised at the March WT. Extremely surprised. I enjoyed all of the stories I read, which is all but one. Not one, astonishingly, bored me.

W. Paul Ganley,⁠

North Tonawanda, N. Y.

(Naturally we don't favor hanging our readers; also we keep an eye on circulation figures.—Editor, WEIRD TALES.)

The Editor
WEIRD TALES
9 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N. Y.
U. S. A.

In the latest issue of your excellent magazine (January 1950) to reach me, I was surprised and delighted to notice several letters in the "Eyrie." Does this mean, that you are restoring this excellent feature of your magazine, and will, in future, print readers' letters? I sincerely hope so. I don't think many of your readers would object if you were to publish one short story less each issue, in order to make space for readers' opinion.

I regard WT as the greatest publication of its kind in the world. Since the change of editorship, the greatest story you have published has been Robert Block's "The Cheaters" (Nov. 1947). Please keep on giving us plenty of Coye illustrations in WT, also some by Boris Dolgov, and Matt Fox's covers are swell too.

Roger Dard,⁠
232 James Street,⁠

Perth, Western Australia.

(We do not hold with omitting a story to make room for a reader's opinion of it. Perhaps this comment will also take care of one reader who hoped for "Irish myth."—Editor, WEIRD TALES.)

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