jects. In my opinion one of the best stories printed between your covers was the beautiful More Lives Than One, by Seabury Quinn, published in a recent issue. Another tale I enjoyed greatly was The Quest of Iranon, by H. P. Lovecraft. This tale told a poignant truth, the hopelessness of a search for the ultimate beauty and the ethereal plane. The end of the seeker was sorrowful but inevitable. The Return of Hastur was an excellent tale of the Elder Gods. Let us have more stories of these types and now and then toss in a tale of vampirism or lycanthropy for dessert. Weird Tales is unique in its field and presents a literary diet not easily found. I have been a steady reader for the last seven years, but any more hackneyed trash like that disclosed in The Stratosphere Menace and Giant-Plasm and others of their ilk and I'll throw up my hands. Stay out of science-fiction—the field is glutted. I enjoy lusty tales like those written by Robert E. Howard, now deceased, although at times I am bored with the undefeatability of the Herculean heroes."
Quite Some Fellow
Caroline Ferber writes from Chicago: "Now to get to the May issue—with a compliment to Everil Worrell for a fine piece of entertainment in The Hollow Moon. Let me say right now that Almuric is about the best and most unusual of any Howard story I've read. We still lament the loss of so fine a writer—so brilliant a brain. Esau Cairn of Almuric is quite some fellow—the illustrations really bring him wonderfully to life. As for the tale itself—absorbing—too absorbing—very good all around—and I'm glad there are two more installments. The verse of Howell Calhoun, The Plumed Serpent, is good. Witch's Hair has a Medusa tang—excellent reading. Ah-h—the reprint, The Dead Soul, embodied an ideal fearful idea—new to me—amazing and chilling."
Best Magazine in Pulp Paper
John Chapman writes from Minneapolis: "My congratulations to Everil Worrell for her outstanding word-picture, The Hollow Moon. It ranks unquestionably as the best story in the May issue. Quinn's Washington Nocturne was good. We should have more of this type and a little less of Jules de Grandin. They're still talking about Roads, and I don't blame them. Paul Ernst is always dependable, but couldn't the hero be someone besides a reporter—just for a change? Witch's Hair and the reprint were both excellent. Kuttner's story was fair—The Transgressor was much better. The Phantom Island was the best of the short stories. DeLay's cover was good. He couldn't have picked a better scene to illustrate. Thanks for the 160 pages—it helps a lot. You still have the best magazine printed on pulp paper."
Into Vigorous Maturity
Sam Moskowitz writes from Newark, New Jersey: "The May issue is the last step in improvement as Weird Tales swings into vigorous maturity. That new type was all that was needed to restore to 'the Unique Magazine' that indefinable atmosphere which 'makes' Weird Tales. Words cannot begin to express my appreciation of Robert E. Howard's supreme masterpiece, Almuric. The story has everything. The Hollow Moon was really weird. It is one of the weirdest pseudo-science stories ever composed. I was especially pleased to see Lester del Rey represented in your pages. He has 'it' and more. The digging up of posthumous works of such authors as H. P. Lovecraft and Arlton Eadie, such as you have done in your latest number, is doubtless one of the reasons why Seymour Kapetansky enthuses 'I love Weird Tales,' in your May reader's department. We all share Mr. Kapetansky's views. Keep that excellent new type, whatever you do." [The "new type" was designed by Claude Garamond, a French printer of the Sixteenth Century, whose graceful type designs were so admired by his contemporaries that he gave up printing and devoted the rest of his life to designing and cutting type faces for other printers.—The Editor.]
The Great Howard
John V. Baltadonis writes from Philadelphia: "There isn't the slightest doubt in my
