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Medusa on the Cover of Weird Tales
Before there was weird fiction, there were myths. You might call them the weird fiction of the ancient world, and in that, you might say that all of literature began with what we now call fantasy or...
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Centaurs on the Cover of Weird Tales
While I'm on mythological subjects, I will show the two centaur covers of Weird Tales. In contrast to Medusa, these seem like pretty nice creatures.Weird Tales, July 1934. Cover story: "Trail of the...
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Haunted Houses and Graveyards on the Cover of Weird Tales
Today is Halloween and time for cover art showing haunted houses and graveyards. I count twelve of them, mostly from the postwar era and more than half of them from two artists, Lee Brown Coye and Matt...
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Satyrs on the Cover of Weird Tales
Well, after the recent discussion here of centaurs, satyrs, fauns, Pan, and Faunus, I decided to look for satyrs on the cover of Weird Tales. I found only one:Weird Tales, November 1950. Cover story:...
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Dragons on the Cover of Weird Tales
While we're on the subject of mythological creatures, I figured I would show the covers of Weird Tales with dragons. I count four of them and I like all four. As a bonus, there is a unicorn in the...
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Winged Creatures on the Cover of Weird Tales
I have written before about monsters, aliens, bats, devils, and demons. We have already seen most of these covers. The exceptions are the second and third shown here. The second is of two winged...
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Conan on the Cover of Weird Tales
On November 11, 2016, Mike Tuz wrote a comment on my article "Winged Creatures on the Cover of Weird Tales." I started to write a reply but it got to be too long and involved for the comments section...
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Tonight I watched Tremors (1990) again for the first time in a long time. I really liked it the first time around, but seeing it now is like seeing it in a new light. The cast is good. I especially...
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Gorillas on the Cover of Weird Tales
There were gorillas in my recent posting, "Conan on the Cover of Weird Tales," and there are gorillas here, on two covers of Weird Tales. I expected more before beginning my search, but then Weird...
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Spiders on the Cover of Weird Tales
I can't say that this is a complete list of spiders on the cover of Weird Tales, but these are the most prominent, I think. There are three of them. About thirty years separate one from the next. The...
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Robots and Men in Iron on the Cover of Weird Tales
I have found five covers showing robots and men in iron on the cover of Weird Tales. Two show robots, the other three show men in iron. Note that the first robot cover, from 1926, refers to "metal...
View ArticleVampires and Corpuscles
I finished reading Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (2010) last night (Nov. 19, 2016). If I were to start writing book reviews here there would be no end to it, but I would like to...
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Weird Forces on the Cover of Weird Tales
Some Weird Tales covers are hard to classify. That's why I have come up with this category. You could break them down further if you wanted to: electromagnetic phenomena (four covers); blobs or flumes...
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Strange People on the Cover of Weird Tales
The title of this entry is misleading, for I'm not going to show a lot of covers with a lot of different kinds of strange people on them. Instead I'm going to show just one cover, which illustrates a...
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Coye's Uncategorizable Covers
Lee Brown Coye was a singular artist possessed of a singular vision. His cover designs for Weird Tales sometimes approached the conventional, but they were more often strange and hard to categorize. I...
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Hannes Bok's Uncategorizable Cover, Then Politics on the Cover of Weird Tales
Hannes Bok is known for his strange and fantastic people, monsters, aliens, and other creatures. In March 1940, this design by Bok appeared on the front of Weird Tales:The image above could go in other...
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Pirates on the Cover of Weird Tales
There were two pirate covers for Weird Tales, one near the beginning of its run, the other near its end. The first doesn't have any obviously weird elements. It's one of few covers for the magazine...
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Middle American Indians on the Cover of Weird Tales
Orientalists such as E. Hoffman Price and Otis Adelbert Kline were prominent in their contributions to Weird Tales. Less well known are the anthropologists and ethnologists who contributed to the...
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Weird Tales in Indiana
Today, December 11, 2016, is the two-hundredth birthday of the State of Indiana. I would like to say Happy Birthday to my home state and to point out that Weird Tales was born here, in Indianapolis in...
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American Indians and the American West on the Cover of Weird Tales
American Indians and the American West appeared on four covers of Weird Tales. There is also one cover showing a scene from Old Mexico. Each of the four Western covers has a supernatural or weird...
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