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"To edit a magazine dealing so largely in stories of psychic phenomena... For years I have read and studied everything obtainable on matters occult and regretted the lack of a good fiction magazine filled with such tales. Enclosed please find 25¢ for a copy of the back number containing The Dead Man's Tale. Isn't that the story you consider the masterpiece of weird stories?" — Pearl Bratton, 2615 Y Street, Sacramento, California.

"Dear Sir: Let me compliment you on your magazine, Weird Tales. Since the very first issue, I have not missed a story. I take it to bed about midnight and read the most bloodthirsty one I can find just to get a 'kick.' The Closed Cabinet is, in my opinion, the most powerful horror story you have published. It was superbly written, and with the atmosphere, setting and all, made a typical weird tale. The Ghost Guard by Irvine was a crackerjack of a yarn. The serial you are running now attracts me a great deal. I am sure that any reader who has an appetite for extravaganza will find just what he wants in that serial... Wishing you all success for Detective Tales and Weird Tales." — Dick P. Tooker, Library Apartments, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

"Dear Sir: Both my husband and I read every story and enjoyed every one. We particularly liked Fear and The Grave, and the others which were not too far beyond the bounds of probability. The Dead Man's Tale was very thrilling... You certainly told the truth when you said that people like to read this sort of fiction, and we are glad that you have not hesitated to become a pioneer, as it were, in presenting to the public a magazine that is fearless enough to feature such unusual stories... Here's to success for Weird Tales!" — Mrs. E. L. Depew, 1235 Hyde St., San Francisco.

"Dear Editor: The yarns by Rud, Craigle and Wright were certainly good thrilling stories. The Soar, by Carl Ramus, The Bodymaster, by Harold Ward, and The Forty Jars, by Ray McGillivray were exceptionally good. The Dead Man's Tale, by Willard E. Hawkins, The Ape Man, by James B. M. Clark, Jr., and The Experiment of Dr. Calf Calgroni, by Faus and Wooding were well-constructed horror yarns." — John James Arthur, Jr., Oak Grove Farm, Coleman, Texas.

"Gentlemen: I am enclosing twenty-five cents for which please send me a copy of the first issue of Weird Tales. That is the only issue I have missed. Believe me, I'm not going to miss any more! Your magazine is great. Please print some scientific stories. The Moon Terror was great. Get more like that... Please rush me the copy as fast as you can. If necessary, mark it 'Via Air Mail.'" — William Moesel, 80 Broadway, New York City.

"Dear Sir: I lived seven years in a really haunted house. No fake about it. Some queer happenings. Some pretty hard to believe, but we lived there and knew them. I even had my arms about the creature one night. You can laugh! It was rather a shuddery remembrance afterward." — V. Van Blascom Parke, Arlington Heights, Mass.

"Gentlemen: I have enjoyed reading the first issue of your magazine, and I am quite delighted to find it so uniquely uniform in tone, and so uniformly unique in its escape from certain useless conventions by which most periodicals of the all-fiction type are governed." — C. D. Bradley, 5830 East Seventeenth Street, Oakland, California.

"Dear Mr. Baird: I wish to say here that I am highly in favor of Weird Tales. I appreciate its merits, and wish to co-operate in whatever way possible to establish its success. There is absolutely no other magazine like it on the market, and it fills a great need. The public owes you a vote of thanks for placing before them such an excellent and needed magazine. Weird Tales indeed has a very bright future." — R. Linwood Lancaster, P. O. Box 687, Raleigh, North Carolina.

"My Dear Mr. Baird: I preferred The Moon Terror to all the other stories, but they were all good with few exceptions. Some of the stories do not live up to the name, 'weird.' Is it possible to procure the first two issues, March and April? If so, what is the cost? If you haven't them, perhaps some reader would like to sell them." — H. Cusick, 2392 Valentine Avenue, New York City.

"Dear Sir: I have just read the first copy of Weird Tales that I ever saw. While walking down Market Street a few days ago I passed a bookstore deeply engrossed in a subject quite foreign to the grotesque. The title of your magazine gripped my attention to such an extent that I stopped automatically after having gone a half dozen yards. Standing there momentarily, Weird Tales drove the other topic away and framed itself vividly in my mind's eye, and I retraced my steps and bought the copy. You have certainly put forth a fetching title, and, it seems to me, already laid the foundation for a financial success, comparable in a short time to that of The Saturday Evening Post." — V. H. Bethell, 718 Howard Street, San Francisco.

We could go on and fill several more pages with enthusiastic letters from our happy readers, for we've scores of such letters here; but we shall have to forego that pleasure and use an inch or so more of wood pulp paper to remind you that frosty evenings approach, with the long winter evenings coming close behind, and that means you will have more time for reading Weird Tales. Anticipating this, we are preparing a bountiful feast of fiction for our Autumn and Winter numbers. We expect to make these numbers better than any we have thus far published.

THE EDITOR.