Poe Is His Favorite
Thomas Gelbert writes from Buffalo: "The Sea-Witch gets my vote for first place in the December issue. I heartily approve of the series of full-page pictures illustrating passages in famous literature. Poe is my favorite author, and to have Virgil illustrate his Raven and Israfel is something to look forward to. I would like to see more reprints by the old masters, such as Gautier, Rousseau, Maupassant, Irving, Turgeniev, and others. It is a waste of valuable space to print stories in Weird Tales that nave already appeared therein before."
Ray T. Leslie writes from Toronto: "I am a constant reader of WT and have a love for the bizarre and unusual in fiction. To me WT is a great source of diversion from boring realities. When I am reading such engrossing tales as H. P. L.'s The Shunned House and G. G. Pendarves' Thing of Darkness I live in the horror surrounding these stories. This month's top story as I read your magazine was certainly Child of Atlantis, a weird tale if ever one was written. This story begins where most happy-ending stories finish: on the honeymoon."
The September Issue
Harry S. Weatherby, of Millington. Maryland, writes: "September's edition of Weird Tales was one of me best I've ever read, and I have been reading your magazine intermittently for twelve years. I particularly like the good old-fashioned ghost yarn, and I think your shorter stories are better than the longer space-fillers. My hat is off to Manly Wade Wellman for his short tale, School for the Unspeakable. I was reading it late at night and it certainly made my flesh crawl. I want to read more stories by this author. Second best was your new serial story, The Lake of Life by Edmond Hamilton. I have always praised Mr. Hamilton's efforts: he surely knows how to transplant you into other worlds. The rime Psychopotnpos by H. P. Lovecraft was thrilling. It is with a feeling of deep regret that I think of Mr. Lovecraft's passing. His will be a great loss to the literary world."
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