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!
With buckets of fake blood, electric chairs, boa constrictors, coffins and (of course!) guillotines, ALICE COOPER (1948– ) […]

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!
Few artists have so widened the possibilities for how to create graphical narratives than DAVE MCKEAN (1963– ). […]

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!
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893–1978) is one of the most oddly overlooked giants of weird fantasy; her epic literary […]

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 […]

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!
Look, everyone knows all about STEPHEN KING’s crazy insane stories. So let’s just move on and… consider the […]

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!
Half the narrative weirdness of KOOL KEITH THORNTON (1964– ) comes from his sophisticated, horror- and science-fiction-themed hip-hop […]

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!
In Our Town, THORNTON WILDER (1897–1975) lulled audiences into a false sense of apple-pie warm-and-fuzzies before veering off […]

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!
Weird Tales’s premier interior story illustrator in the ’30s, VIRGIL FINLAY (1914–1971) influenced a generation of fantasy artists, […]

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!
Think JIM HENSON (1936-1990) and you think Muppets — yet there’s so much more to the man’s genius. […]

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!r
When SHIRLEY JACKSON’s (1916-1965) story “The Lottery” was published, The New Yorker was assailed with hate mail — […]