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from the first four or five years, yet I don't think they should be much more recent Why not reprint serials? May I suggest that very excellent serial, Drome, by John Martin Leahy? I notice that this story was also requested by a gentleman in Boston some months ago. Another old feature that one misses was the double-page table of contents, with the quaint little picture at the top. Those little touches all went a long way toward making WT a truly unique magazine. Let's have 'em back. I was pleased to see that the lovable little de Grandin is to return to your pages. I did not care much for Thomas Carter. Seabury Quinn is just another writer when he leaves Harrisonville, but de Grandin puts him at the top of your list. Of course I realize that he must have to strain his imagination to find new plots for the diminutive Frenchman; yet although I have read about sixty of his yarns, I am far from bored with him. Tell him to forget Carter or risk losing the great popularity he enjoys among WT readers."

S. Y. Bryant, of South Bend, Indiana, writes: "For the second time in as many years I break my proper silence to put in my three cents' worth. The reason for this outburst is that old, old bone of contention—your covers. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw the old familiar name spread across the face of that outrageous April cover. My first thought was that something had perhaps happened to our Mrs. Brundage; but no, there was the signature at the foot of the page. What on earth and the outlying planets is wrong? Has the pressure of eternal complaints from the few readers who objected to nudes finally overcome the editor's better judgment? Just because the 'anti-nudists' wrote more letters doesn't mean that they are in the majority. You know that it is human nature to condemn rather than to boost. Hence this letter. So long as things go to please us we keep still, but when we are displeased we send out the fiery cross and call the clan to arms. It is my humble opinion, as a faithful reader of long standing, that the April cover will elicit more complaints than all the undraped ladies that M. Brundage has painted. [It did.—The Editor.] Now for a word of praise, now that I have that off my chest.

What horrible compulsion led the aviators of the Whirlwind Flight to fire on their comrades? What ghastly doom befell the gallant squadron of American war aces, to change them into living dead men?

These questions will be answered in this most unusual story of aviation by the author of "The Spider's Web," in as strange a tale of sky battle as has ever been told. Living corpses—treason—patriotism—betrayal—action—sublime courage—these are the compelling themes that make this novelette the weirdest and most fascinating story of sky-fighting ever penned. It will be printed complete

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