not certain whether or not I should bother."

Under Baird's editorship, Weird Tales lost a considerable amount of money--estimated at $51,000. After the April 1924 issue, Henneberger fired him and offered his job to Lovecraft. When Lovecraft declined, the publisher made Farnsworth Wright, until then Baird's assistant, the editor of Weird Tales, a position he held until 1940.

Baird remained as editor of another of Henneberger's titles, Detective Tales. In this post, he rejected Lovecraft's

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