"'The Epiphany of Death' by Clark Ashton Smith is easily the best thing published in TFF this issue. Glad you are getting Smith's shorter tales for publication and I hope that they are enjoyed as much by others who read them as by myself. Smith has an in inimitable style--subtle, with many fine figures of speech. 'Dreams of Yith' by Duane W. Rimel was one of the finest poems you have so far published. After about three or four readings, I began to see the real imagery of it. The heading was surprisingly good and just the thing. I hope you can use them right along, as they give a fine effect.--F. Lee Baldwin, Asotin, Washington. * * * * * "Enjoyed your last TFF and am anxiously awaiting the next. I especially like the little newsy items about all the different authors, and what they're doing."--Natalie H. Wooley, Rosedale, Kansas. * * * * * Write us a letter, reader, and let us know what you think of this issue of TFF. What do you like in it, what would you rather not have, and what suggestions have you to offer? We appreciate your letters and have found many helpful hints in them in the past. See you again next month. * * * * * SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE by H. P. Lovecraft Part Twelve (Copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook) In this same period Sir Walter Scott frequently concerned himself with the weird, weaving it into many of his novels and poems, and sometimes producing such independent bits of narration as "The Tapestried Chamber" or "Wandering Willie's Tale" in "Redgauntlet," in the latter of which the force of the spectral and the diabolic is enhanced by a grotesque homeliness of speech and atmosphere. In 1830 Scott published his "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft," which still forms one of our best compendia of European witch-lore. Washington Irving is another famous figure not unconnected with the weird; for though most of his ghosts are too whimsical and humorous to form genuinely spectral literature, a distinct inclination in this direction is to be noted in many of his productions. "The German Student" in "Tales of a Traveller" (1824) is a slyly concise and effective presentation of the old legend of the dead bride, whilst woven into the cosmic tissue of "The Money Diggers" in the same volume is more than one hint of piratical apparitions in the realms which Captain Kidd once roamed. Thomas Moore also joined the ranks of the macabre artists in the poem "Alciphron," which he later elaborated into the prose novel of "The Epicurean" (1827). Though merely relating the adventurers of a young Athenian duped by the artifice of cunning Egyptian priests, Moore manages to infuse much genuine horror into his account of subterranean frights and wonders beneath the primordial temples of Memphis. De Quincey more