The 85 Weirdest, Day 75: Tom Waits
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!
TOM WAITS (1949– ) has built his oeuvre singing odd stories of life on the road, chronicling hobo [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 74: Anne Rice
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!
ANNE RICE (1941– ) made vampires sexy again in the public imagination. In doing so, she pushed the [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 73: Stephen Sondheim
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!
The stage musical tends to be a cozy, familiar, comforting form. Not in the hands of STEPHEN SONDHEIM [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 72: Rod Serling
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!
For those baby boomers whose storytelling habits were formed in the big TV boom of the ’50s and [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 71: Andy Warhol
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!
We haven’t found any evidence that ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) ever met fellow 85er Philip K. Dick, but they [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 70: Dr. Seuss
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!
Our “same planet, different worlds” award for weirdness must go to THEODOR “DR. SEUSS” GEISEL (1904-1991). His tales [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 69: Thomas Pynchon
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!
If not for space and time, everything would happen all at once. Maybe that’s what happened to the [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 68: Octavia E. Butler
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!
African-Americans who enjoy genre fiction are often labeled “weird” by their peers. But it’s extraordinary authors like OCTAVIA [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 66: Penn & Teller
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!
Stage magic has traditionally relied upon the audience submitting to the magician’s illusive version of reality. PENN & [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 65: Alan Moore
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!
Oh, ALAN MOORE (1953- ), how do we love thee? Let us count the ways. 1. V for [...]
