Archive for April, 2008

Vaughn’s dragon roars

Carrie Vaughn’s popular WT story “For Fear of Dragons” is now available as an audio download from PodCastle.org!

The 85 Weirdest, Day 22: Neil Gaiman

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!
Among the great invented mythologies of the 20th century — the Cthulhu mythos, Middle-Earth, the Star Wars […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 21: Bill Plympton

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!
You have to love the artist who foists his particular brand of weirdness on an unsuspecting world […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 20: Margaret Brundage

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!
At the very peak of Weird Tales‘s classic run in the 1930s, the magazine’s visceral appeal was […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 19: Osamu Tezuka

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!
Walt Disney, Hanna & Barbera, and Alex Toth aren’t on this list — but if they had […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 18: Lon Chaney Sr.

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!
LON CHANEY SR. (1883–1930) wasn’t merely a great actor; he was the first person in Hollywood to […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 17: Joyce Carol Oates

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!
JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938– ) publishes at will. In The New Yorker one month, in a mystery […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 16: Nick Bantock

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!
Ominous. Foreboding. Reading NICK BANTOCK’s (1949– ) indescribable postcard-scrapbook-collage-novel Griffin and Sabine is like listening to the […]

The 85 Weirdest, Day 15: Rev. Ivan Stang

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 prophet of the invertedly iconoclastic and surprisingly enduring Church of the SubGenius — a postmodern movement […]

Weird Tales and Hellboy’s creator at New York Comic Con

We’re coming to New York! Come join us for a Weird Tales panel discussion celebrating our 85th anniversary and the 85 Weirdest Storytellers next Friday, April 18, at the big New York Comic Con in Manhattan. Panelists scheduled to talk include con guest of honor and WT-inspired Hellboy creator Mike Mignola; WT illustrator and Dr. […]