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rah, banzai, and viva, while making a deep salaam!"

Bart Reagan writes from Pittsburgh: "The August issue is o. k. . . . Quinn's incomparable Jules de Grandin leads in The House of the Three Corpses. But that is no surprise. Second honors go to Miller for his Spawn. It rings true in theme and craftsmanship. Wellman easily takes third honors with his The Valley Was Still. He handles this theme very well. Price's yarn tickled me. Good humor in every paragraph. A tale like this now and then improves WT. . . . But Poe reprints are out. How about HPL reprints for new readers (and old ones too)? Reprints could be serialized. The cover of this issue is fine."

Robert Bloch writes from Milwaukee: "Speaking of different stuff, Spawn was just that. And—Apprentice Magician. A damned, devilish, demoniac, dark, dour, dank, dismal, dim, diabolical tale filled with fine human touches. One of the smoothest ever rendered by pearl-white-Price, Dervish of Djinns. Mote from Price, Wandrei, Long and other old-timers—keeps the young squirts on their toes."

Dorothy Ellis writes from San Francisco: "I have never been a subscriber to Weird Tales. But for years I have snatched a copy from the nearest newsstand and borne it triumphantly home to wallow—and I mean just that—in the sheer fascination of horror. Nor have I ever been disappointed. The reprint some months ago of The Curse of Yig affected me with almost tearful nostalgia (I was living in a rattlesnake country when I first read it in your magazine.) And the names of the contributors haunt me as I fumble with my own inadequate mss. But the main point of this is merely cheery, if shivery, congratulations. Individual stories may not have been to my particular taste, but I have never been let down by any issue. And in my basement reposes a box with many, many old copies of Weird Tales which I would no more touch than I would shake hands with a copperhead. . . . Drink with me as I raise a cup of the Lord knows

THE MOON TERROR
by A. G. Birch

Is a stupendous weird-scientific novel of Oriental intrigue to gain control of the world.

ALSO—OTHER STORIES

In addition to the full-length novel, this book also contains three shorter stories by well-known authors of thrilling weird-scientific fiction:

OOZE
by Anthony M. Rud

Tells of a biologist who removed the growth limitations from an amoeba, and me amazing catastrophe that ensue

PENELOPE
by Vincent Starrett

Is a fascinating tale of the star Penelope, and the fantastic thing that happened when the star was in perihelion.

AN ADVENTURE IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION
by Farnsworth Wright

Is an uproarious skit on the four-dimensional theories of the mathematicians, and inter-planetary stories in general.

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