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YOU, the readers, seem to have liked the December cover of Weird Tales, by M. Brundage, better than any other cover we have had on this magazine; for a veritable chorus of praise rises from the letters of appreciation that the postman has placed on the editor's desk. Some of you, however, think that the cover should have illustrated one of the stories instead of being merely symbolic of the contents.
Good old Jack Darrow, of Chicago, writes to the Eyrie: "As to naked women on your covers, I don't care whether the ladies are nude or wrapped up in big fur coats so long as the covers are weird. If the story describes the heroine as being nude, let the artist make her nude, but for weirdness' sake pick out the weirdest scene you can find."
Writes Lionel Dilbeck, of Wichita, Kansas: "The Lady in Gray by Donald Wandrei is the best story in months. Also the cover is much better this time, even if it is almost a duplicate of the inside illustration for The Lair of the Star-Spawn in the August 1932 issue."
"I love the picture on the cover for December," writes Gertrude M. Carr, of Bremerton, Washington, "but I hunted in vain for the story it represented. Please, please keep the covers by Brundage, though if too much nudity is offensive to some, let the covers be like this one, beautiful and dressed, too."
Maxine Schwartz, of Seattle, writes to the Eyrie: "I have been reading Weird Tales for the last year and must say I have enjoyed the stories to the utmost. I have just completed reading your December issue and I want to commend it very highly. I enjoyed every page. I do not, as a rule, care for serials, but The Vampire Master by Hugh Davidson has me in its clutches and I simply can't let go."
Michael Liene, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, writes in part: "I have just laid aside the December issue, with a sense of pleasure and enjoyment that I have not experienced with any other publication printing stories along the policy of Weird Tales. I am quite satisfied that, at last, the ideal periodical (though not yet perfect) is on the news stands. Your magazine, to me, is always as pleasant a surprize as buying a bottle of milk and finding it all cream. . . . As for the cover designs: the November and December covers are exquisite. But why doesn't Mr. Brundage, the artist, take an incident out of one of the stories to illustrate? It gives the purchaser of the magazine an idea of the thrills that await him within. Any magazine that has beautiful cover designs and does not have any feature inside the magazine to go with the cover, is trying to sell the magazine by cheating the public."
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