Archive for March, 2008

The 85 Weirdest, Day 6: Charles Fort

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!
While others have claimed more fame, CHARLES FORT (1874-1932) could be the single most important person in […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 5: Steve Ditko

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!
If this were an “85 Awesomest Storytellers” list, it would certainly showcase Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 4: Mervyn Peake

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!
A painter turned theatrical designer turned novelist, MERVYN PEAKE’s (1911-1968) early success in the London art world […]

“Walking with the Beast”

original nonfiction by Amanda Gannon  •  “The signs were there from my first hour. It was a full moon when they cut me from my mother. I was grinning and covered with fine, wolfish hairs.”

The 85 Weirdest, Day 3: Laurie Anderson

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!
The angelic techno-poet of the 21st century, blown backward into the 20th by a wind called tomorrow. […]

Melissa Marr on dark faerie tales and tattoo art

Bestselling dark-fantasy novelist Melissa Marr chats with WT contributing editor Elizabeth Genco about muses, the allure of the otherworldly, and the vine of lilies creeping up her body.

The 85 Weirdest, Day 2: Terry Gilliam

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days!
TERRY GILLIAM‘s (1940- ) marvelous and surreal animations for Monty Python featured cut-up Victorian photos and bulbous […]

The Great God Pan, onstage in Chicago

Dark-fantasy lovers in the Windy City, this weekend is your last chance to see the hot new stage adaptation of Arthur Machen’s novel The Great God Pan, courtesy of Wildclaw Theatre. When it was first published a hundred years ago, critics despised this tale of a horrific experiment performed upon an innocent young woman, calling […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 1: Franz Kafka

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days! Let’s kick things off with one of the most indisputably weird storytellers of all time…
Somewhere, a […]

Here they are: The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years!

Readers wrote us in record numbers last autumn when WeirdTalesMagazine.com asked you who, in your book, are the weirdest of the weird: the most influentially strange authors and artists and talespinners of all kinds to work their magic on the world in the 85 years since 1923, when Weird Tales was born. We asked that […]