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an old towel, half a bottle of brandy and some sandwiches.

"When you're dressed, get yourself to a doctor, and don't use any transport. You might be all right, but there’s no telling."

"You mean I'm to walk?" I gasped.

"Sorry, mister. Yes."

"No chance of staying the night?"

"Ugh. Not likely. You see, these things happened in 1665—the year of the Great Plague."

Don't go, my friend. . . . Don't look at me like that . . . for God's sake. . . .

Among the papers of the late Howard Phillips Lovecraft were the notes and outline for a final story entitled, "The Survivor," which Lovecraft did not live to write, but which was very much in the Lovecraft tradition. These notes were put together by August Derleth who sent us the manuscript of the leading story in this issue—which he described as a "collaboration, post-mortem."

We are sure that it will be welcomed by old Lovecraft fans, and also by the younger readers who have been writing us to know all about Lovecraft and the genre in which he wrote and which so influenced many of his followers.

The Editor, Weird Tales
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Let's have them and soon. I myself will buy two copies of any such magazine you will pub-