have just lately stumbled on Weird Tales in my travels. The story I liked best in the August number was The Three Marked Pennies. It was well written and to the point. Personally, I prefer shorter stories of the supernatural type to the longer ones. I also enjoyed your readers' page and your poetry, and I shall certainly look for the magazine on the stands next month."
An Embarrassing Experience
Ian C. Knox, of London, England, writes to the Eyrie: "About the agitation about scientific and space stories: print them. As for the covers, do them as you please—personally, I don't mind either way; but some time ago I was rather embarrassed over one of them. It was the one with the naked girl running with a pack of wolves. Unfortunately, I had a friend with me when I bought it who had never read WT, and his comments on my (supposed) taste in literature were not complimentary. I told him he was wrong, but he obviously did not believe me. Two months later I became a subscriber and so get the magazine through the post. . . . Well, more power to your elbow and may your shadow never grow less."
Weird Story Reprint
Jack McCoy, of St. Louis, writes to the Eyrie: "I like your Weird Story Reprint department about as well as any part of the magazine. But I can not help noticing the immense superiority of the stories from old issues of Weird Tales. As a rule, these have it all over the alleged classics that you occasionally use from other sources. Take Fioraccio for example. This would be an interesting weird story in any other place except WT. But in comparison with your other stories Fioraccio becomes a very commonplace story; for your present authors can write rings around that story. Compared with The Black God's Kiss by C. L. Moore, or The Sleeper by H. Bedford-Jones, it is nothing at all to write home about. I mention Bedford-Jones' story particularly, because its whole method of presentation is so vastly superior to that of Fioraccio in the same issue. Fioraccio leaves nothing to suggestion, but The Sleeper owes its whole effect to suggestion, and the reader's own imagination is stimulated to building up a horror far greater than could possibly be attained if the author had described in detail
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