ways a treat to intelligent readers. Among your own writers that I most admire are Lovecraft and Quinn (tied for first place), with Burks, Hamilton and Morgan a close second. I bought my first copy of Weird Tales about four years ago, while waiting for a suburban car as I was going to deliver a lecture in a neighboring town, and I have never missed a number since, for many of your contributions surpass Poe at his best."
Paul Kerlsson Johnstone, of St. Louis, writes to The Eyrie: "Why not have more stories like The Lost Race (in your January issue), dealing with the people of Britain before the Norman Conquest? Certainly many things must have happened while Pict, Scot, Roman, Briton, Saxon, Jute, Angle and Dane struggled for mastery, that would make fiction look tame. I have an idea that many of the tales of that time (about 500 B. C. to 1000 A. D.) which are dismissed as mere myths are cold truth. Certainly archeology has found these old legends to be startlingly accurate in many ways."
Writes Sherlock R. Hope, of Jacksonville, Florida: "Edmond Hamilton, in his own realm of writing, is head and shoulders above all others. I consider his The Metal Giants a masterpiece of his type of fiction. I look forward to future issues of Weird Tales, which, I sincerely hope, will bring more such stories from this author's pen."
We offered to give the original typescript of Seabury Quinn's cover-design story in the February issue, autographed by the author, for the most helpful and constructive letter sent to The Eyrie discussing the stories in that issue. The typescript was won by Fred W. Fischer, Jr., of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Readers, your favorite story in the February issue, as shown by your votes, was The Atomic Conquerors, by Edmond Hamilton, and your second choice was The Man Who Cast No Shadow, by Seabury Quinn. What is your favorite story in the present issue?
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