We’ve met a few poseurs in our day; ergo, we assert: the comic book writer-rockstar-mage thing only works if you’ve got the skills to pay the bills. Enter GRANT MORRISON (1960– ), who consistently transforms the surreal and non-linear into a crackling good story. Who else has the moxy to turn good old-fashioned superheroes like […]

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 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, […]

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!
When SALVADOR DALI (1904–1989) expressed his support for Spanish dictator Francesco Franco, the other surrealist artists expelled […]

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!
Those of us of a certain age and demeanor who recognized Björk Guðmundsdóttir’s weird genius in her […]

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!
When ART BELL (1945– ) first broadcast paranormal talk on his syndicated radio show Coast to Coast, […]

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!
PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) was the surviving twin, and spent his entire life looking for something — […]

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!
Apparently, we were all in danger of never finding out what avant-garde comedy looked like. Quoth ANDY […]