Weird Tales volume 42 number 04

by McIlwraith, Dorothy

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  mation, unabated, reached its completion.

  Mr. and Mrs. Orne sat still, as 1 lifted the lid of the hot kettle. I had to trust them to heed my injunction not to stir.

  Then the lights went out. The electricity in this part of the country sometimes does cut out when there are thunderstorms. But this was too opportune to be chance.

  From Eliza's figure sprouted mushroom blobs of static light like St. Elmo's Fires, shining yet not igniting, forming at the hem of her skirt, her waist, the nape of her neck, swamp fire of the fiend's finding. With the room thus weirdly illumined, the poltergeist held both hands alcft with palms taut and fingers rad iating, outstretched to tlit- area above my head. Shrilly Eliza's strained vocal cords emitted the fiend's curses and evocations.

  All around me stones fell, yet I was unhurt. I drew from the kettle the acrylic plastic figure. The action of the boiling water had fulfilled our anticipations by invoking the peculiar properties of the candlestick's substances, reshaping it into the form of a crucifix.

  As I walked forward with the talisman upraised, the demoniac creature emitted a hell-rending cry as if a bottomless pit gaped beneath him. His hands lowered spasmodically to clutch idiotically about his face. His features withered and writhed, revealed as the electricity came on again when, presumably, the fiend's will power dissolved its damning block. In a moment the struggle was over. Eliza, released, collapsed into her chair, and but for my free hand ■would have fallen to the floor. June 15, 1949—Chadwick explains the matter by calling the poltergeist a virulent mass and the crucifix an all-healing antibiotic which is an interesting way of putting it. Since the crucifix was dormant in the plastic (the acrylic being peculiar in that once fixed—in the form of a crucifix—it could be provisionally altered to the rough •shape of a candlestick, until its "memory" ■was stirred by the boiling water, when it reverted to its fixed shape it could form a perfect opposite to the poltergeist.

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  THE EYRIE

  {Continued from page 4)

  and "Dark Rosaleen" was fair (I); beyond that there wasn't much.

  However there were two features which gave me some hope: "The Eyrie" and the Wellman. I've always regretted that you dropped "The Eyrie." Your reasons didn't seem worth much either. January, 1950, gives hopes of a possible return.

  W. H. Baxter.

  The Editor WEIRD TALES 9 Rockefeller Plaza New York 20, N. Y.

  Let me tell you frankly —J disagree with you. I've got enough letters published in other magazines so that I don't care too much whether this one is published — partially or wholly — in the "Eyrie," but I do disagree with you in regard to your admit-

  ted policy of omitting tabulated story preferences. For if rt is the editor whom, toe author must please, and the readers be hanged; ultimately — it is the readers whom the editor must please.

  I missed the last WT, it seems, but merely because I have to journey a couple of miles to get it. However, I was surprised at the March WT. Extremely surprised. I enjoyed all of the stories I read, which is all but one. Not one, astonishingly, bored me. W. Paul Gatdey, North Tonawanda, N. Y.

  (Naturally we don't favor hanging our readers; also we keep an eye on circulation figures.—Editor, WEIRD TALES.)

  The Editor WEIRD TALES 9 Rockefeller Plaza New York, N. Y. U. S. A.

  In the latest issue of your excellent magazine (January 1950) to reach me, I was surprised and delighted to ?iotice several letters in the "Eyrie." Does this mean, that you are restoring this excellent feature of your magazine, and will, in future, print readers' letters? I sincerely hope so. I don't think many of your readers would object if yon were to publish one short story less each issue, in order to make space for readers' opinion.

  I regard WT as the greatest publication of its kind in the world. Since the change of editorship, the greatest story you have published has been Robert Block's "The Cheaters" (Nov. 1947). Please keep on giving us plenty of Coye illustrations in WT, also some by Boris Dolgov, and Matt Fox's covers are swell too.

  Roger Dard, 232 fames Street, Perth, Western Australia,

  (We do not hold with omitting a story to make room for a reader's opinion of it. Perhaps this comment will al
so take care of one reader who hoped for "Irish myth." —Editor, WEIRD TALES.)

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  THE EYRIE

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  The Editor U 'BIRD TALES 9 Rockefeller Plaza Kew York 20, N. Y.

  Thanks for bawling me out about my mathematical non-weird scoreboard. Happy i am to see a revival of "The Eyrie." Especially in the case of your editorial c-md notes from the authors.

  Now for the gripe department; Day Keene's story in March was a good story, but a good story that did not belong in n v ElRD TALES. Yes, I knou^-vari&fs the spice and all that. How about more stories from the old-timers?

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