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!
When SALVADOR DALI (1904–1989) expressed his support for Spanish dictator Francesco Franco, the other surrealist artists expelled […]

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!
Those of us of a certain age and demeanor who recognized Björk Guðmundsdóttir’s weird genius in her […]

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!
When ART BELL (1945– ) first broadcast paranormal talk on his syndicated radio show Coast to Coast, […]

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!
PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) was the surviving twin, and spent his entire life looking for something — […]

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!
Apparently, we were all in danger of never finding out what avant-garde comedy looked like. Quoth ANDY […]

Feeling thirsty in both mind and body? WT contributor Jeff VanderMeer just completed a two-part feature on books and beer at Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog, asking a number of prominent authors — including cutting-edge fantasists Elizabeth Hand, Zoran Zivkovic, and Ekaterina Sedia, not to mention hot new ghost-story novelist Lauren Groff — what beer or beers […]

The Weird Tales team was delighted this weekend to present author Neil Gaiman and animator Bill Plympton — both guests at the New York Comic Con — with plaques commemorating their place in our list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” Neil graciously accepted his award from editorial director Stephen Segal […]

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!
For a guy who never traveled far from his home in Cross Plains, Texas, ROBERT E. HOWARD […]

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!
Sure, he’s the comics king of ’60s counterculture, but it’s ROBERT CRUMB’s (1943– )’s trippy jaunts through […]

Thanks to all those who turned out for the Weird Tales panel at the New York Comic Con — we had a great time and hope you did too. Photos from the weekend — including more than one of our “85 Weirdest Storytellers” honorees — to follow!