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 […]

2008 will mark the 85th anniversary of WEIRD TALES’s founding. We’ve got a bunch of plans in the works to celebrate — and WE NEED YOUR HELP with one big project in particular. In the March/April issue of the magazine, we’ll be featuring a list of the 85 WEIRDEST STORYTELLERS OF THE PAST 85 YEARS, […]

Our T-shirt producer, Zazzle.com, is offering $5 off all shirts until the stroke of midnight! Which mean’s that now’s the perfect time to get weird and let people know you’re proud of it!

While Robert E. Howard’s most famous literary creation is the warrior-king Conan, who debuted in WEIRD TALES back in 1932, the pulp-fiction master had more than one great anti-hero in his arsenal. An earlier WEIRD TALES series starred Solomon Kane, a Puritan warrior who traveled the globe battling the evils of the 16th century with […]

We’ve just upgraded WeirdTalesMagazine.com to run on a spiffy new WordPress engine — and we’ve taken advantage of the opportunity to try and improve the entire reading experience! You can now find all our contents — fiction, interviews, etc. — tidily organized in the “Online Contents” menu at the upper left, and we’ve also added […]

We had a great time at the World Fantasy Convention, celebrating the release of the new issue of WEIRD TALES (#346) as well as our new trade paperback collection, Weird Tales: The 21st Century, Volume 1. The brilliantly creative crew at ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists, hosted our party in […]