Archive for November, 2007

Solomon Kane: a Weird Tales legend

While Robert E. Howard’s most famous literary creation is the warrior-king Conan, who debuted in WEIRD TALES back in 1932, the pulp-fiction master had more than one great anti-hero in his arsenal. An earlier WEIRD TALES series starred Solomon Kane, a Puritan warrior who traveled the globe battling the evils of the 16th century with […]

“The Nightmare Avatar’s Nightmare”

Listen to poet Christina Sng perform a reading of “The Nightmare Avatar’s Nightmare,” a collaboration with writer Mike Allen that recently appeared in WEIRD TALES’s sister publication, H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror.

Web site update

We’ve just upgraded WeirdTalesMagazine.com to run on a spiffy new WordPress engine — and we’ve taken advantage of the opportunity to try and improve the entire reading experience! You can now find all our contents — fiction, interviews, etc. — tidily organized in the “Online Contents” menu at the upper left, and we’ve also added […]

“Cask of Amontillado” party at World Fantasy

We had a great time at the World Fantasy Convention, celebrating the release of the new issue of WEIRD TALES (#346) as well as our new trade paperback collection, Weird Tales: The 21st Century, Volume 1. The brilliantly creative crew at ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists, hosted our party in […]

“The Release”

original fiction by Kurt Newton  •  “Fitz scurried out of the way until Delia came to rest once again, then he hurriedly polished the length of her long smooth carapace. He knew what she liked most, where she liked it, and for how long.”

New Weird Tales paperback!

Hitting bookstores nationwide just in time for holiday shopping, it’s our new trade paperback collection: Weird Tales: The 21st Century, Volume 1. Featuring ten favorite stories from the past year’s worth of WEIRD TALES, by great authors like Richard Parks, Carrie Vaughn, and Holly Phillips — plus two brand new originals from Paul E. Martens […]