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paper as compared with the older, nor the new style type, but these are at least minor things. I think I am always a bit behind as a critic, but I try to make a point of reading all the 'fantasy' mags. When I look at some of the new s.f. magazines I wonder if they will all survive? Anyway competition is certainly good from the reader's point of view, and was there ever a time when we had such wide variety of good fantasy? I see nothing however which could menace WT as a magazine for all-round fantasy, weird and science fiction. . . . I am one of those readers who do not sigh for the return of Brundage; for me keep Finlay on the covers; look at his work whilst the magazine is on the newsstand, and see how his work sticks out a mile. The expressions on the faces of the issue for January were what the writer intended to convey, and it took an artist to capture it. A fine cover and a fine artist inside or out. More by Finlay and keep the covers weird as this one was; we can do without the impressions the nudes give on the covers. Only in this issue a reader remarks on how she passed up the magazine because the nudes gave her the wrong idea about the stories inside. . . . A great line-up of writers in this issue also, but I'm afraid my choice for first will be a most unpopular one; anyway here goes: These Doth the Lord Hate, by Gans T. Field, a real weird tale."

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