velously. The same description applies to The Distortion out of Space by Francis Flagg. The Conan stories by Howard are all good."
Pithy Comments
Robert Bloch, of Milwaukee, writes: "Present WT a knockout, in my opinion, particularly Clark Ashton Smith's fine tale and Julius Long's short. Reprint not so hot—stick to Lovecraft. Cover fine. Conan vile, C. L. Moore splendid."
About Howard's Serial
D. de Woronin, of Southern Rhodesia, Africa, writes: "'Tis with unholy glee that I read your announcement about the new serial; to wit, The People of the Black Circle, by Robert E. Howard. I always thought that the Conan stories were all too short, so you can imagine what a treat in store that is. Perhaps, some day, my other bosom pal, Northwest Smith, will appear in a book-length novel too."
Quinn, Howard vs. Moore, Smith
Ernest H. Ormsbee, of Albany, New York, writes: "When C. L. Moore created Shambleau, he not only created a new and enticing character, he created something new in the galleries of the supernatural. This new creation captured the imagination. Northwest Smith was a real flesh-and-blood human being, subject to all the temptations of weak mankind. Shambleau, even if it was taken from the Gorgon of mythology, was new and fresh; not a rehash. This was Moore's only outstanding story. The rest have been a phantasmagoria of lights and shadows and whirling things put across for the purpose of drugging the senses—senseless things, intangible, infrangible, inchoate, substanceless things of darkness. . . . When you dub his latest story 'the weirdest story ever told' I have to go to the mat with you on the definition of 'weird'. Shambleau was weird; the other creations are more ghastly than ghostly, so unreal they can not be grasped by the mind of reality. Dreams of an opium-eater. Clark Ashton Smith has always been this way. He has never pictured a really weird situation nor drawn a really weird character. His fashionings are always something out of the—so-called—primordial basic things, without shape or form, with no beginnings and no endings, phantasma, illu-
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