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Weird Tales at Seventy & Seventy-Five
Weird Tales turned seventy in the spring of 1993. Fortunately there was still a magazine in print. Darrell Schweitzer was the editor of whole issue number 306. The cover artist was Nicholas Jainschigg....
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Weird Tales in Its Sixties & Seventies
I have been writing about anniversaries of Weird Tales and observances of those anniversaries within the pages of the magazine, as well as in other publications. Here is a list of my articles about...
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More Strength, More Joy
I wanted to be done with this topic, but there is always more of everything, at the door and waiting to come in.Today (Sept. 10, 2024), I read an article about Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), that...
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Weird Tales at Eighty
Weird Tales turned eighty years old in March 2003 and there was a magazine in print to observe that anniversary. Darrell Schweitzer and George H. Scithers were the editors. The cover artist was Les...
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Weird Tales at Eighty-Five
By 2003, Weird Tales seems to have become aware of its own history. In every five-year period since then there has been an observance of an anniversary, except in 2018 when the magazine wasn't in...
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Weird Tales at Ninety & Ninety-Five
Ann VanderMeer became editor of Weird Tales with its issue of November/December 2007. She remained at that post until the Winter issue of 2012, collecting awards along the way. She announced her...
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Weird Tales in The Pulpster
Weird Tales published issue number 366, a sword-and-sorcery issue, in early 2023, but there was no mention in its pages of an anniversary. I found that odd. Did the publisher and editor not know that...
View ArticleWeird Tales at 100
More than one hundred years ago, in May/June/July 1924, Weird Tales magazine had what it called its anniversary number, and if you had laid down your money--four whole bits--you could have had 192...
View ArticleWeird Tales #367-Contents
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDb) doesn't include Weird Tales #367 (2023) in its issue grid of the magazine. It does, however, have an entry on that issue and lists it as a digital...
View ArticleWeird Tales #367-Analysis, Part One
Usually you do your analysis after you have covered your topic. This time I'm going to do the analysis first.Weird Tales #367, the Cosmic Horror Issue, published in 2023, contains 96 pages in its...
View ArticleWeird Tales #367-Analysis, Part Two
There are fifteen written works in Weird Tales #367, nine short stories, three essays, and three poems. (The table of contents lists "The Forest Gate" by Samantha Underhill as fiction but it is in...
View ArticleWeird Tales #367-The Eyrie
The first installment of "The Eyrie" appeared in the first issue of Weird Tales, published in March 1923. It began as a way for the editor--then Edwin Baird--to communicate with readers and for them to...
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The City in the Sea & Edgar Allan Poe
Weird Tales #367 (2023) is a themed issue. The theme is cosmic horror, with the sub-theme being the 100th anniversary of Weird Tales. These two themes kind of go together. H.P. Lovecraft was not in the...
View ArticleThe City in the Sea by Christopher Golden & Mike Mignola-Part One
Born in Berkeley, California, in 1960, Mike Mignola is a comic book artist and writer. He has also worked as an illustrator, designer, and artist in the movie business. His co-author on "The City in...
View ArticleThe City in the Sea by Christopher Golden & Mike Mignola-Part Two
The authors of "The City in the Sea: A Hellboy Story" were obviously inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and his works, but they have also drawn from other sources. You will encounter here some very familiar...
View ArticleThe City in the Sea by Christopher Golden & Mike Mignola-Part Three
The self-references and meta-references continue:We get a little of Hellboy's backstory in "The City in the Sea: A Hellboy Story." One sentence stands out to me:And there had been countless hours...
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175 Years Ago
It's October, the month that ends on Halloween Night and in which Edgar Allan Poe died. He died in a suitably mysterious, curious, and tragic way. That unhappy event occurred 175 years ago, at five...
View ArticleWhen the Stars Are Right by Nicholas Diak
The second feature in Weird Tales #367, the Cosmic Horror Issue (2023), is an essay called "When the Stars Are Right: The Weird Tales Origins of Cosmic Horror" by Nicholas Diak. Mr. Diak has an...
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"A Ghost Story for Christmas" by Paul Cornell
"A Ghost Story for Christmas" is the second story in Weird Tales #367, the Cosmic Horror Issue (2023). The author is Paul Cornell, who has written for comic books and television. He is also a writer of...
View Article"The Forest Gate" by Samantha Underhill
"The Forest Gate" by Samantha Underhill is the first poem in Weird Tales #367, the Cosmic Horror Issue. This work is included under the heading of fiction in the table of contents, but it's clearly a...
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