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!
Lemony Snicket may be all the rage now, but it was ROALD DAHL (1916–1990) who proved once […]

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!
CLIVE BARKER (1952– ) burst onto the horror scene in a way nobody else ever could: with […]

…in the daily presentation of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We now return you to your regularly scheduled weirdness.

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 atmospheric film Wings of Desire saw two angels wander the streets of Berlin, contemplating love, suicide, […]

It’s been said of Poe that no sooner had he invented the detective story than he abandoned it. The same thing might well be said for David J. Schow and “splatterpunk,” the literary subgenre he helped invent during the “horror boom” of the 1980s. Splatterpunk attempts to elicit a visceral reaction from the reader […]

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!
KARA WALKER (1969– ) summons ghosts. They are the opposite of most ghosts you’re accustomed to. […]

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!
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (1912–1997) was just another scion of the ruling class who shot his wife […]

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 TV series based on CHARLES ADDAMS’s (1912–1988) life and odd creations brought weirdness to prime time, […]

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, Lovecraft and Doc Smith showed off their superperceptible four-dimensional beings first. An obvious enough concept, really, […]

original fiction by Karen Heuler  •  “He never actually saw the fish take off — he always caught them flying, instead — but he had to assume they did a kind of leap first, so he put up a higher fence.”