Why Not?
Dear Editor:
I recently saw the picture, "Murders in the Rue Morgue." It was described as being more weird than "Dracula" and "Frankenstein.' Naturally I expected to see a good picture, but I was disappointed. The picture was not weird and the plot was silly. The thing was, in my estimation, a complete flop. I do not understand how it ever happened to be released.
If the producers want to put out some real weird pictures, why don't they pick on some modern weird story? Take "The Duel of the Sorcerers," for instance. If filmed it would make a peach of a thriller. Provided, of course, it was not changed.
Wesso's cover for the March Strange Tales is good, as are his drawings.
Let's have more of Dr. Muncing.
I hope that Strange Tales will soon be published every month, but I think that you ought to add more pages first.
The more blood-chilling stories are, the better I like them.—Jack Darrow, 4225 N. Spaulding Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Yessir
Dear Editor:
Words fail to express my rapture on receiving the March issue of Astounding Stories. It was a truly wonderful issue. "The Affair of the Brains," by Anthony Gilmore, was splendid, and the second installment of "Wandl, The Invader" was superb. Your, or should I say "our," magazine is rapidly improving (if that is possible), and I hope to read many more issues like the present.
The March issue of Strange Tales by far surpassed all of the former issues. It was perfectly grand!
"The Duel of the Sorcerers," by Paul Ernst, could not have been excelled. "By the Hands of the Dead," by Francis Flagg, was magnificent. "The Feline Phantom," by Gilbert Draper, "The Case of the Sinister Shape," by Gordon MacCreagh, "Tiger," by Bassett Morgan, "Back Before the Moon," by S. Omar Barker and "The Veil of Tanit," by Eugene de Rezske—all were ecellxent.
Keep up the fine work!—Fred J. Walsen, 5609 E. 17th Ave., Denver, Colo.
And Long Life to You!
Dear Editor:
I thank you for some especially good stories in the March number of Strange Tales. Francis Flagg is a favorite Science Fiction writer, and "By the Hands of the Dead" is well written and thought provoking. "The Trap," by Henry S. Whitehead, is one I have particularly enjoyed. You see, my favorites are those that combine the fascinating possibilities of scientific discovery with good fiction. But, also, I am very happy with such delightful little tales of love and faith as "Back Before the Moon," by S. Omar Barker, and "Tiger," by Bassett Morgan. Surely you have almost "pleased everyone" in this number of the magazine, for probably there are people who like even those other stories which seem to me only fantastic and tiresome, and they have as much right to be entertained as I.
Long life to your fine, clean book!—Lucy Reynolds, 553 Natoma St., San Francisco, Cal.
A Whole Novelette Is Coming!
Dear Editor:
Just a line to let you know that of all the stories in your March issue, "The Case of the Sinister Shape" appealed to me most.
Gordon MacCreagh seems to have a thorough knowledge of his subject, and the way it is handled makes very interesting reading. It is nice to have each step explained—each exorcism explained in full, as MacCreagh does. I read his other Dr. Muncing story some months ago in your magazine, and on seeing his name in this issue I turned to it first. Please give us more of Dr. Muncing.—Melville Keating, 64 W. 9th St., New York, N. Y.
"Clicks"
Dear Editor:
Strange Tales certainly clicks with me. Rousseau, Cummings, Flagg, Williams, Ernst, Whitehead, Smith—boy, there's a list of writers that would wow anybody.
"The Duel of the Sorcerers" in this issue makes your hair curl, and no fooling. I'll take my hat off—or rather the creeping of my scalp will shake it off—to Paul Ernst, and also Francis Flagg for "By the Hands of the Dead." Those fellows sure have imagination with a capital I. "The Case of the Sinister Shape," by MacCreagh, and "The Trap," by Whitehead, are another pair of yarns that make you afraid to sleep in the dark—E. L. Miller, 630 E. 14th St., New York, N. Y.
Try Vaseline
Dear Editor:
I have been reading Strange Tales since its inception. It is a darn fine magazine. Cummings' story in the first issue was splendid for about half the story, and then it trailed off. Somehow the end left me feeling that the explanation for all that went before was hardly up to the expectations aroused. Still I got a kick from reading it. Rousseau was splendid.
I have just gotten the current issue of Strange Tales and the hair on my
