offer something distinctive and worthwhile and UNIQUE in magazines.
Here's another letter from Texas:
"Dear sir: I just bought a copy of WEIRD TALES, and I have read most of the stories and consider them very good. I believe that a magazine of this type will be very popular. In fact, I am sure it will be, and I trust nothing will happen to change your policy in regard to the type of material you are now using and expect to use in the future —J. H. O., Houston, Texas."
William S. Waudby of Washington, D. C., wrote to us, "You have struck the right key with WEIRD TALES, and congratulations are in order for Vol. 1, No. 1," while E. E. L. of Chicago wrote to us. in part, as follows:
"Gentlemen: . . . You will probably be deluged with a lot of stuff, for everybody who writes is sometimes compelled to commit to paper some seductive phantasm of his brain for the sheer pleasure of doing it. . . . Poe took more than 5,000 words to develop his supreme story of horror, and those who have an ambition to imitate the Master will often require a larger canvas. Your story lengths—1,000 to 20,000 words—will give everybody a chance to show what he can do. May I not express the hope that your magazine will prove a success, and that you will publish therein stories that otherwise would molder in filing-cases, and which will be lifted from your pages to become a permanent part of our literature? . . . . If the contributions can maintain a sufficiently high level you can count on me as one of your permanent subscribers, for I dearly love to read stories of this character."
With regard to WEIRD TALES for May: We meant to say a good deal about it in this month's Eyrie, but we've consumed so much space with our correspondence that we've precious little room left. All we can tell you now is that if you are seeking the "usual type" of fiction you will not find it in the May issue of WEIRD TALES. But if you are looking for "something different"—something that you've never expected to see in any magazine—then the place to find it is in the May WEIRD TALES. Need we say more?—THE EDITOR.
