Catherine L. Moore, already acknowledged as one of the most promising weird tales authors, gleaned a rejection slip from Amazing Stories for the first story she ever penned. And she doesn't blame the editor for spurning the manuscript!... Seabury Quinn's latest Jules de Grandin story is "Hands of the Dead," a story of hypnotism.... A. Merritt's serial, "Creep, Shadow," currently running in the Argosy, differs considerably from the forthcoming book version, he confides.... Some time ago, a reader wrote a letter to the Evrie praising Francis Flagg's "The Picture" to the skies.... Nothing wrong in that, except that the story did not see print until the month following the arrival of the letter, the story having been postponed for an issue!... Farnsworth Wright owns a miniature rogue's gallery of Weird Tales contributors and they are on display at his office.... Milt Kaletsky's weird yarn, "The Mantis," met with an N. G. at the office of WT. He sent the same story to Terror Tales on Sunday, the magazine received it on Monday and he got it back on Tuesday!
Wright blames the failure of Oriental Stories on ex-president Hoover. After listening to one of Hoover's speeches in which he stated that prosperity was just around the corner, Wright thought that it would be an opportune time to launch a new magazine.... You, we, and Farnsworth Wright know what happened.... Harry Stephen Keeler claims cats bring him good luck, and so he has four cats in his home, the latest one being named "Mencken the IV".... August W. Derleth has forged ahead and has crashed Scribner's and Story.... Eando Binder is really Earl and Otto Binder working together in collaboration.... Their other brother, Jack, does s-f illustrating work.... The fancy lettering of Weird Tales on the cover of the magazine was designed by J. Allen St. John.... "The Destroying Horde," Donald Wandrei's next in Weird tells of a giant one celled organism spawned in a chemist's laboratory and an orgy of hideous deaths.
Winford Publications will positively launch a new all-weird magazine within a few months, designed expressly for the purpose of competing with Weird Tales.... Charles H. Bert, of Philadelphia, is the only fan, to our knowledge, who owns copies of the now defunct weird tales magazine, Tales of Magic and Mystery.... Edmond Hamilton has recently written "Cosmo's End," "Master of the Genes," and "World Without Sex".... Otis Adelbert Kline's Weird Tales story, "The Bird People," which he admits was based on the 1926 Amazing Stories cover contest, was originally titled "The Log of the Laurtanian".... His Kline's popular "Thirsty Blades" was originally written by him as a 20,000 word novelette. Wright said that he would use the yarn if Kline boiled it down to a shorter length. So Kline turned the yarn over to Price, who did the necessary revising, and the result was published as a collab.... Just the reverse is the short story Price wrote as a sequel to Lovecraft's "The Silver Key," which he turned over to Lovecraft who worked it into the novelette.
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key."... Otis Adelbert Kline was in New York the other week, looking up editors and writers.... He had dinner with his friend, Seabury Quinn, and for the first time in twelve years, was treated to some Napoleon brandy.... It may be a coincidence, but the circulation of THE FANTASY FAN has increased thirty-five per cent since the inception of this column!
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