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!

Eraserhead‘s deformed baby. Blue Velvet‘s severed ear. Twin Peaks’s nested mysteries. The Elephant Man‘s freakshow redemption. DAVID LYNCH (1946– ) has redefined modern cinema by exploring the concepts of good and evil in his own, uniquely unsettling style. He challenges his viewers’ perceptions of reality with the stories he tells; he’s an iconoclast who refuses to compromise his strange and unique visions.