"Inkblot Succubus" by Nicole Sixx
"Inkblot Succubus" by Nicole Sixx is a one-page poem with a red-and-black illustration of an inkblot in the background. The black inkblot looks like a cross-section of a brain. Ms. Sixx's lines of...
View Article"Laid to Rest" by Tim Lebbon
"Laid to Rest" by Tim Lebbon is the only outright science fiction story in the Cosmic Horror Issue of Weird Tales. It takes up nearly eight pages of text, plus a full-page, illustrated main title page...
View Article"Call of the Void -- L'appel du Vide" by Carol Gyzander
Carol Gyzander is a poet, author, and editor. Her story "Call of the Void -- L'appel du Vide" is the last in the Cosmic Horror Issue of Weird Tales. I think she's an American, even if her story has a...
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas fromTellers of Weird Tales!From The Century Magazine, December 1916, back cover art by Canadian-American artist Norman Mills Price (1877-1951). There may be product placement in this...
View ArticleThe Last Picture Shown
Many years ago, author Jeff VanderMeer wrote an essay called "Moving Past Lovecraft" in which he objected to what he called the adulation, imitation, fetishizing, and commodification of H. P....
View ArticleAn Eyrie for the Cosmic Horror Issue
"The Eyrie" began as a way for the editor of Weird Tales to communicate with his readers, for the readers to communicate with him, and for them to communicate with each other. The first installment was...
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Art in the Cosmic Horror Issue
Most of the art used in the Cosmic Horror Issue of Weird Tales is unsigned. I presume it to be the work of the design director, Jeff Wong. I believe this is the same Jeff Wong who has worked in...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!From The Parisienne Monthly Magazine, January 1916.Terence E. Hanley December 31, 2024-January 1, 2025
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Weird Tales in 1925
Happy New Year to Readers of Weird Tales!I finished up last year by writing about the one-hundredth anniversary issue of Weird Tales, published in 2023. I will have more on that issue and some ideas...
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Armstrong Livingston (1885-1948)
Robert Armstrong Livingston, Jr.Author, BusinessmanBorn August 16, 1885, New York, New York,Died February 7, 1948, Manhattan, New York, New YorkRobert Armstrong "Ray" Livingston, Jr., known as a writer...
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Jessie Bond (1894-1991)
Jessie C. Bond MunroeAka Bonnie Bee, Bonnie Bond, Bonnie MunroeFashion Artist, Illustrator, Poet, PainterBorn January 4, 1894, Decatur, IllinoisDied January 20, 1991, Palm Beach County, FloridaShe was...
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Francis Hard (1888-1940)
Pseudonym of Farnsworth WrightAuthor, Editor, Poet, Journalist, Translator, SoldierBorn July 29, 1888, Santa Barbara, CaliforniaDied June 12, 1940, Manhattan, New York, New YorkFrancis Hard was...
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Two Poems About Two Crows
Francis Hard, aka Farnsworth Wright, had a poem called "Two Crows" in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. Just six years earlier, Wright had been a soldier stationed in France. In composing his...
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Lady Anne Bonny (Dates Unknown)
Lady Anne Bonny was the pen name of an unknown author. She had just one story in Weird Tales, a three-part serial called "Wings of Power," published in the issues of January, February, and March of...
View ArticleBessie Douglas of Portland, Maine
The January 1925 issue of Weird Tales includes eight letters to the editor, these published in "The Eyrie." We should realize that a "letter" in Weird Tales wasn't necessarily a whole letter. Few...
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Pyramids on the Cover of Weird Tales
I wrote recently of pyramids, and this month I'm writing about the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. Today I can write about both, for on the cover of that issue is a pyramid, a step pyramid and the...
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Von Foltz & Frazetta
Speaking of the ancient world, I would like to show two pictures, one of which looks a little like the other. The first is "Pericles' Funeral Oration" by German artist Philipp Von Foltz (1805-1877)....
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Heart of Darkness-Part One
In thinking and writing about the Cosmic Horror Issue of Weird Tales (2023), my thoughts went pretty soon to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Published first as a three-part serial in Blackwood's...
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Heart of Darkness-Part Two
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899) can be read simply as an adventure story, even if there is more to it than that. Like much of the best literature, it can be read at more than one level. Good...
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Heart of Darkness-Part Three
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a tale within a tale. It reads like a weird tale, with feelings of foreboding and menace and atmospheres of darkness and the unknown. It has deeper meaning, but it...
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