Wells and Arthur Machen were both asked to contribute to an abortive magazine published in the '90s, and in one of the few issues appeared Wells' "The Cone"--Machen's didn't get in because the magazine expired. Wells' "The Time Machine," and Machen's effective horror story, "The Three Imposters" were both quite in the limelight at the time. The short lived magazines were somewhat of a forerunner of the modern weird magazines. Machen was the subject of many amusing attacks, more fully reported in his autobiographical "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far," even being accused of being deliberately unpleasant by some prudish ladies' magazine for his "Great God Pan." The three H. G. Wells stories featured in Weird Tales during 1925 and 1926 were reprints, though not mentioned as such when published. They were written about a quarter of a century before. * * * * * ADVERTISEMENTS Rates: one cent per word Minimum Charge, 25 cents BOOKS, Magazines, bought, sold. Lists 3 cts. Swanson-ff, Washburn, N. D. * * * * * CLARK ASHTON SMITH present THE DOUBLE SHADOW AND OTHER FANTASIES--a booklet containing a half dozen imaginative and atmospheric tales--stories of exotic beauty, glamor, terror, strangeness, irony and satire. Price: 25 cents each (coin or stamps). Also a small remainder of EBONY AND CRYSTAL--a book of prose poems published at $2.00, reduced to $1.00 per copy. Everything sent postpaid. Clark Ashton Smith, Auburn, California. * * * * * Back Numbers of _The Fantasy Fan_: September, 20 cents (only a few left); October, November, December, January, February, March, April, 10 cents each. * * * * * I will pay as much as $1.00 for certain back issues of Weird Tales. If you have any very old issues (1923-4 5 6 7) that you would like to part with, please communicate with the editor, giving a list of the issues you have with their conditions. * * * * * FANTASY features in its June Issue An Interview with Jules de Grandin's creator, Seabury Quinn "Cigarette Characterizations" An unusual novelty by Edward E. Smith Ralph Milne Farley Otis Adelbert Kline David H. Keller H. P. Lovecraft Harl Vincent Stanton A. Coblentz Clark Ashton Smith and many other features