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stories be limited to 2000 words or less, so that more examples of competitive writing could be published. Perhaps you may discover a new Moore this way."

Jack Ward, of Abingdon, Virginia, writes: "About reprints. By all means use the stories from back issues. I got off of another magazine when it started running Poe and Verne for reprints. Enough was plenty. I enjoyed Lieutenant Burks' Bells of Oceana more than any other. It sure did give me a kick to reread it; for the first time I read it I was on an army transport, returning from the States to Honolulu, from furlough. I read the mag and passed it on to a very credulous recruit, who was on deck guard with me that night. Then, when I went off post, I told this boy that the story was true, and that it was the same ship and about the same place in the Pacific. I think I scared that boy (I was only nineteen myself) out of a year's growth. He sure did look it. By your last two covers it seems that the anti-nudes have won, and I don't like it. Let's get M. Brundage back with either the same model or another. . . . A story I would like to see as a reprint is The Hounds of Tindalos, from your March 1929 issue. I'll never forget it. The night I read it I rode a full-grown nightmare all over my room in a hotel in Frisco, and woke up the whole floor. My buddy and I came near going out on our ears that night, or morning. I don't know whether it was the yam or what I had to eat, but it was a good riot while it lasted."

Charles H. Deems, of Hill Top, Arkansas, writes: "I pause in the midst of my copy of WT to write this letter and, incidentally, to compliment Robert Bloch on his two stories, The Feast in the Abbey and The Secret in the Tomb. These stories were both well written, the former with a touch of terror that was pleasing, the latter a touch of eldritch horror. Both had a certain type of beauty. In coming years these stories, I believe, will be used as reprints, which is a compliment to any story. Talk about fairy-tales in weird fiction! Boy, The Bronze Casket was one! This tale takes first place with me. The ending of the story was superb; I never read anything like it before, Bloch's tale is just one place in back of it.

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