Subscribers can help us and themselves at the same time if they will accept back numbers of TFF in payment for the future issues that they cannot receive. This will lighten the burden upon the editor who has already lost a couple of hundred dollars in the venture, and will provide readers with the issues they missed or duplicates of those they have. In the latter case, they will find that back issues of TFF are steadily increasing in value. The first issue, September 1933, which is out of stock long ago, now markets for a value between 50 cents and $1. per copy. Prices of back numbers are as follows: Oct., Dec., 1933, Jan., Feb., Mar., June, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., 1934, Jan., Feb., 1935--10 cents each; Nov., 1933, Apr., May, 1934--20 cents each; Sept., 1933, July, 1934--out of stock. We would appreciate it if you will take your refund in back issues, which, as we said, will soon prove of considerable value. Subscribers who would not like to do this will receive a refund in cash, charging them ten cents for each number received in their subscriptions. All returns will be made before May first. So, good-bye, friend reader--it's been nice to have met you! * * * * * SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE by H. P. Lovecraft (copyright 1927 by W. Paul Cook) Part Seventeen Many of Hawthorne's shorter tales exhibit weirdness, either of atmosphere or of incident, to a remarkable degree. "Edward Randolph's Portrait," in "Legends of the Province House," has its diabolic moments. "The Minister's Black Veil" (founded on an actual incident) and "The Ambitious Guest" imply much more than they state, whilst "Ethan Brand"--a fragment of a longer work never completed--rises to genuine heights of cosmic fear with its vignette of the wild hill country and the blazing, desolate lime-kilns, and its delineation of the Byronic "unpardonable sinner," whose troubled life ends with a peal of fearful laughter in the night as he seeks rest amidst the flames of the furnace. Some of Hawthorne's notes tell of weird tales he would have written had he lived longer--an especially vivid plot being that concerning a baffling stranger who appeared now and then in public assemblies, and who was at last followed and found to come and go from a very ancient grave.