The 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!
Countless imitators; only one Far Side. It was to single-panel humor cartoons what Weird Tales was to pulp […]

The 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!
Like a brain surgeon who falls in love with the tumor, DAVID CRONENBERG (1943– ) sets out to […]

The 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 first space alien rock star, DAVID BOWIE (1947– ) has at various times portrayed a dehydrated space […]

The 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!
We’ve met a few poseurs in our day; ergo, we assert: the comic book writer-rockstar-mage thing only works […]

The 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!
Next time you see one of Gregory Maguire’s reworked faerie-tale novels on the shelves, take a moment to […]

The fiction-review site The Fix raves over our anniversary issue: “Weird Tales #349 is an almost perfect issue. I’d say ‘you can’t get much better than this,’ but Weird Tales has been steadily raising the bar. It’s excellent and getting even better.” And hey, they really liked #348 too!

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!
Skulls and curlicues collide in rickety Victorian mansions while pale outsider heroes encounter terrible yet cuddly beasties. […]

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!
As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds through the second half of the 1960s, […]

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!
CLARK ASHTON SMITH (1893-1961) was the only one of his contemporaries that H.P. Lovecraft regarded with awe, […]