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sThere have been a number of Weird Tales anthologies but interestingly, no best of Weird Tales. If you were to put together a Best of Weird Tales, what stories would you include? Here is my list: The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft Beyond the Black River Robert E. Howard The Tale […]
I’m old enough to remember a world pre-Star Trek: The Next Generation— though not by much– and so I’m old enough to remember the excitement of seeing how something that I loved so dearly would look with all the shiny, modern flair of the 1980s. Maybe it’s the rose colored glasses of nostalgia, or maybe […]
Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon was the greatest novel to appear in Weird Tales. Jack Williamson’s Golden Blood was the second greatest novel to appear in Weird Tales. Jack William had a total of six stories and two serials in Weird Tales from 1932 through 1938. He also had almost as many […]
Normally, I use this space to talk about short fiction from the pulps to tell folks what kind of awesome stories were being told in magazines from the days of yore. Today, I’m taking a quick break to tell folks what kind of awesome stories are being told in Issue #2 of Cirsova Heroic Fantasy […]
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 9- The Single Author Collections
Sunday , 5, June 2016 Fiction, Short Fiction, Uncategorized 7 CommentsIn addition to the multi-author paperback anthologies reprinting Weird Tales fiction, there are some single author collections that can expand your reading experience. E. F. Benson is one of the great English ghost story writers. Benson had seven stories in Weird Tales from 1929 to 1933. You can find them in the Wordsworth Night Terrors […]
The 1990s had a sense of déjà vu when it came to Weird Tales reprints. Sword and sorcery and Cthulhu Mythos anthologies returned. Sword and sorcery underwent near extinction in mass market paperback form in 1985. Karl Edward Wagner had the idea of reprinting early pulp era sword and sorcery in a series of paperback […]
Short Reviews – The Giants Return by Robert Abernathy
Friday , 27, May 2016 Uncategorized 2 CommentsThe Giants Return by Robert Abernathy appeared in the Fall 1949 issue of Planet Stories. Quest III has been on a 900 year voyage from an Earth whose burgeoning population threatens the future of Mankind. As one of three ships sent forth to scout out likely locations to establish colonies to transplant large segments of […]
Banned from the Hugo Packet: Safe Space as Rape Room – Full PDF Here
Thursday , 26, May 2016 Uncategorized 12 CommentsWorldcon Members who are looking forward to the forthcoming Hugo Voter Packet – which traditionally contains as many of the works nominated for a Hugo Award as possible so that all voters can review the nominees in a unified set of documents – will notice a special warning from MidAmeriCon II in this year’s edition […]
The late 1980s brought a new sort of Weird Tales anthology, the bargain hardback. Peter Haining’s Weird Tales stood as a lone monument for 20 + year period. Marvin Kaye’s anthology in 1988 was part of a new era along with anthologies edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, and Martin H. Greenberg. Robert Weinberg had […]
The Weird Western “sub-genre” is an odd classification, because one of the hallmarks of Western novels, stories, comics and movies is their naturally occurring internal morality, often defined (often obliquely) as a Code – most famously, the “Code of the West.” This code is not rooted in the natural world, but is intrinsically supernatural. For […]
SUPERVERSIVE: The Quantum Thief trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi
Tuesday , 17, May 2016 Uncategorized 4 CommentsI’ve probably established that I’m a fan of giant robot stories by now, but that’s not actually where my fondest love lies, sci-fi-wise. Mecha and power armor are great features that I absolutely love, but they’re not a necessity. A story weak on sense of wonder (or some other draw) won’t pull me in just […]
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 6
Sunday , 15, May 2016 Short Fiction, Uncategorized 3 CommentsStories that originally appeared in Weird Tales continued to pop up in anthologies in the late 1970s. Michel Parry was a prominent anthologist in the late 1970s. From the Archives of Evil (1976, Warner Books) and From the Archives of Evil II (1976) are paperback reprints of Christopher Lee’s “X” Certificate No. 1 and Archives […]