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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 […]

WEIRD TALES fans will be intrigued by two unique events taking place in the greater New York City area the weekend of Feb. 8-9. First — and we are absolutely not making this up — there’s the Wicked Winter Renaissance Pirate Ninja Lovecraftian Faire in Edison, N.J., which will turn the traditional Renaissance festival on […]

Cloverfield finally hits theaters tonight. For weeks, and despite unofficial denials, rumor has swirled that the mysterious, top-secret monster(s) that devastate New York City in the new movie by Lost creator J.J. Abrams may come from H.P. Lovecraft’s WEIRD TALES pantheon of giant alien demon gods. Could we finally be on the verge of glimpsing […]

We’re closing out 2007 with a bang! Unholy pirates cavort alongside fallen angels, plainspoken toads, and sorcerous healers as seven incredible new authors make their WEIRD TALES debuts! Meet the author of a Necronomicon-based Tarot; begin a tour of Lovecraft’s unearthly geography; and explore the twisted world of the Quiet Bird-Man in an excerpt from […]

Fiction editor Ann VanderMeer has commandeered her spousal collaborator’s “Ecstatic Days” blog this month to present a series of intriguing guest-blogger columns from authors who’ll be appearing in the next several issues of WEIRD TALES. Today: Writer/actor Michael Boatman on how Hollywood is ruining an entire generation of horror movies.

Extended due to popular demand! Been debating whether to subscribe to WEIRD TALES? We’ll make it easy for you. From now through Jan. 4, first-time subscribers can take a trial run: home delivery of the next three issues, including our 85th anniversary extravaganza, for just $10! Or give it as a present to a first-time-subscribing […]

Pittsburgh-area fans are hereby invited to a WEIRD TALES reading at Eljay’s Books on the South Side, Friday, Dec. 14 at 7 pm. Join editorial director Stephen H. Segal, local performers Christiane D. and Robert Isenberg, and perhaps a weird guest or two, who’ll be sharing several stories from the latest and next issues of […]