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.