story, but I nominate Witch-House by Seabury Quinn for first place. It was the type of story I would like to see more of. No wonder so many readers wanted Lovecraft's Pickman's Model reprinted! It is a horribly delicious story. Seems to creep with horror. The terror that Pickman's art inspired is conceivably put over. Virgil Finlay's illustrations are perfect for Weird Tales."
Werewolves Out-moded?
Miss Eve Barnett, of Binghamton, New York, writes: "I am a very new reader of your magazine, this (December) being only my second book. I found the majority of your stories fantastic, breath-taking and exciting. Also I found to my disappointment that others of your stories are too foolish and too common. For instance, I am sorry to see stories of werewolves in this magazine. Movies and dime-thrillers have outplayed them. . . . In the December issue, Out of the Sun was too short, but fantastic. In the November issue, Pickman's Model was swell, but left too much to the imagination."
Praise and Dispraise
Bruce Bryan, of Washington, D. C., writes: "Just a few lines on the current (December) WT. I much enjoyed Lovecraft's yarn, which I pick for first place. And the illustration was swell except for the hero's 'coiffure'. That's the most skeletal-looking picture of a skeleton I ever saw—and I ought to know because I've dug up and reassembled hundreds of 'em. Out of the Sun was good, and I rate it second. But one fallacy struck me—the author speaks of other shapeless lumps generated from the sun-rays that did not live or develop. Seems to me that over a period as long as the diary describes there would be a number of other forms of life that would incubate. . . . The Cyclops of Xoatl was written around a fine idea—but it was written all around it! The hero is too unconvincing and unsympathetic and his exclamations and epithets somehow seemed too picturesque. And in addition, the old Mexican Hernandez turned out to be quite a character. In one paragraph he spoke in broken English or fractured Spanish. But a paragraph or two later he'd be spouting English with the diction of a litterateur. Derleth-and-Schorer's work is usually exceptionally well written and presented in
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