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"Eventually I heard thetheression, dragging edinmusic of both moons and man

"In a flash of cataclysm, of cosmic pandemoniue through the web, strained apart,snapping their pulsant filaht oozed fro as they fell, andsplashed on the sli treesreared upon their writhing roots, flailing their lensed li into swiftlydisintegrating mounds

"The rain of light blood thinned and ceased: the ed earthward, lusterless As they touched the tely--_cos all life's inherent dread of the horror of pain and death, whicharose fro upon andcrushing me The blue chaos iped away by utter blackness; theshriek weakened, ceased

"I opened ain, but cautiously My brother Ray was standing overmy nameAND IT WAS I WHO HAD SCREAMED!"

as i remember----

As I reust Derleth wrote, a time back: "My personal favoriteof the Lovecraft stories is THE RATS IN THE WALL, followed by DUNWICHHORROR, COLOUR OUT OF SPACE, THE OUTSIDER, WHISPERER IN DARKNESS" HPLliked MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN as well as anything he did, COLOUR nextDonald Wandrei is busy in St Paul writing plays and shorts "My averageday brings me anywhere from ten to fifty letters that must be answered"

As I refellows, fans and authors, crowded into a car for a posed picture RossRocklynne, freshly freckled by a Nek sun, at the steering wheel,Jack Agnew at his side with Mark (I'and immediately in back of Rocklynne a felloith too much hair, a tanthat would mented bythe humorously verbose Erle Korshak, the professorly nice Bob Madle andone V Kidwell I recall also a night at Mort Weisinger's ho, Binder, Schwartz, Darrowand again Bradbury A picture was taken that night and the only oneswith decent smiles were Ackerazine Hornig looked strangely thoughtful with his hand tohis chin, Mort had a cigarette drooping from his lip and Darroartz and Binder all were lost in profound contemplation of thelittle birdie which Mort's brother held I reht, when it was raining convulsively and Binder,Bradbury, Hornig, Rocklynne and Darrow all cla water, yodeling popular tunes at theay top of their corny contraltos Binder has a pleasing bath-tubbaritone, while Hornig can iely silent, but that man Bradbury and Rocklynne set up such ahowl that the Park authorities ca thatthe Loch Ness ain This was all settled whenso and everyone drowned peacefully

Going way back in the cobwebs I see at anEastern post-office addressed to Mars It was returned e

As I re wrote, on January 9th: "On Tuesday,February 20th, 1940, I'll be in Los Angeles I rite for FuturiaFantasia, but my rates are 12 cents a word, before acceptance I haven'tseen GONE WITH THE WIND yet, but if I stop off to see it on the road,expect me two days later than heretofore planned If I walk it, expectme at the city li, only about 18for the annual sun showers and orange blizzards" And later, fro: "I liked the latest issue of Futuria Fantasia very e of conventional descriptions over which I laughedmyself sick and silly The note about Bradbury and theI've ever read in afan-"

I seelancingthru a thick manuscript under submission to John W Campbell I seen toremember that the author was Robert A Heinlein, member of our LaSflAnd the other day that story popped up in Astounding as a Nova, "IF THISGOES ON--" And it seems to me that here and now Bob should take a bowfor a swell story And thanks to Caerscover and R

ogers interiors OMEGA----

_COMING in MAY_

"DARKNESS AND DAWN"

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