The 85 Weirdest, Day 64: Tanith Lee
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!
Comic young-adult author, robust adventure fantasy novelist, gothic poetess: TANITH LEE (1947– ) has more writing personas than [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 63: Gunther von Hagens
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!
GUNTHER VON HAGENS (1945– ) invented the science behind the original Body Worlds exhibit, which opens up preserved [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 62: M.C. Escher
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!
Let’s face it: math isn’t just confounding and painful for many of us word nerds — it’s downright [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 61: Ray Bradbury
PLUS: Win free weird theatre tickets!
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 The Illustrated Man and Something Wicked This Way Comes, RAY BRADBURY (1920-) confirmed forever the ineffable link [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 60: Rand & Robyn Miller
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!
When they designed, wrote, and produced the computer game Myst, the brothers RAND & ROBYN MILLER (1959–, 1966– [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 59: C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner
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 original Weird Tales power couple, CATHERINE L. MOORE (1911–1987) & HENRY KUTTNER (1915–1958) met and married [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 58: Stanley Kubrick
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! Today we resume after a two-week break with the legendary STANLEY KUBRICK (1928-1999).
Dairy-based Beethoven-fueled ultraviolent rape-a-thon? Acid [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 57: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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!
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’s (1927– ) brand of writing, dubbed magic realism, serves as a lyrical reminder that in [...]
The 85 Weirdest, Day 56: Alice Cooper
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 85 Weirdest, Day 55: Dave McKean
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– ). [...]





