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 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 […]

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!

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. […]

Dark-fantasy lovers in the Windy City, this weekend is your last chance to see the hot new stage adaptation of Arthur Machen’s novel The Great God Pan, courtesy of Wildclaw Theatre. When it was first published a hundred years ago, critics despised this tale of a horrific experiment performed upon an innocent young woman, calling […]

Welcome to March 2008 — 85 years to the month since WEIRD TALES magazine first entered this world. We’ve got plenty of celebratory excitement coming up this month, including our anniversary party at Norwescon and our extra-weird next issue, in which we’ll pay tribute to The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years. But […]

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We were excited to spot WEIRD TALES contributing writer Natalia Lincoln at the Dances of Vice Festival in New York a few weekends ago, providing keyboard accompaniment for the […]

You’ve seen haunted-house stories before — but you’ve never seen anything like Matthew Pridham’s remarkable novella “Renovations,” where nobody is more terrified than the house itself! That’s just the tip of the iceberg this issue: we’ve got interviews with novelists James Morrow (The Last Witchfinder) and Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely); stories about autistic magic, seductive […]

WEIRD TALES fiction editor Ann VanderMeer’s new anthology, The New Weird, featuring stories by Clive Barker, China Miéville, M. John Harrison, Sarah Monette, Michael Moorcock, Hal Duncan, and many more, is now on sale! Even better, Ann and her weird collaborator Jeff VanderMeer are running a contest this week over at Jeff’s Ecstatic Days blog: […]

Girls in beauty pageants are sometimes maligned for not having enough brains. But this year, the Phoenix Comicon is holding its inaugural Miss Zombie Beauty pageant, where the contestants are the types who like brains so much, they want to eat yours! WEIRD TALES is proud to sponsor this luscious parade of decomposing pulchritude. The […]