Weird Tales

Weird zines coming and going

Weird Tales — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:41:19 +0000

We at Weird Tales salute our colleagues at the indie zines Talebones and Lone Star Stories, both of which closed their doors this week after years of great work publishing fantastic fiction. And we note the debut of a new iPhone magazine, Steampunk Tales, featuring WT contributors Jay Lake and Phil Brucato, friend-of-the-magazine Catherynne Valente, and more!

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 236

Weird Tales — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:05:04 +0000

No. 236: “2012,” $40.

Weird Tales proudly presents “Steven Archer’s Blasphemous Horrors,”one artist’s quest to create a new Lovecraft Mythos-inspired painting every single day. And every day, you have the opportunity to buy the original artwork! The pieces are a combination of oil paint, paper, graphite, acrylic paint, scotch tape, and ink; they’re mounted on the inside of hardcover book covers and vary in size from 5×8 to 7×10 inches. Most are priced at $30 to $50; just email the artist at egolikeness at weirdtales dot net to arrange purchase by PayPal. And you can follow along with the gorgeous creepiness by subscribing to the RSS feed or friending us on LiveJournal!

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 235

Weird Tales — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:48:09 +0000

No. 235: “Swamp Lights,” $40.

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 234

Weird Tales — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:01:33 +0000

No. 234: “Oral Exam,” $40.

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 233

Weird Tales — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:43:01 +0000

No. 233: “Snatcher,” $40.

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 232

Weird Tales — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:00:41 +0000

No. 232: “The Good War,” $40.

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 231

Weird Tales — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:38:31 +0000

No. 231: “The God,” $40.

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 230

Weird Tales — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:11:04 +0000

No. 230: “The Clown,” $40.

Blasphemous Horrors: No. 229

Weird Tales — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:48:10 +0000

No. 229: “Sister Burner,” $40.

Happy 80th, George Scithers

Weird Tales — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:08:04 +0000

All of us at Weird Tales wish a very happy 80th birthday to our editor emeritus, George H. Scithers!

You’d think our favorite engineer-turned-editor — not to mention our wise mentor and good friend — would at least consider relaxing a little. After all, in the ’60s he won Hugos for his fanzine Amra and introduced the tradition of the modern Worldcon Masquerade; in the ’70s he won a couple more Hugos as the founding editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine; in the ’80s he took the helm at Amazing Stories; and in the ’90s he shared a World Fantasy Award with Darrell Schweitzer for relaunching Weird Tales. But George has kept the red pen close at hand through the 21st century thus far; his second Cat Tales feline fantasy anthology is forthcoming soon from Wildside Press.

George has been a bit under the weather lately, and his local sf convention (Capclave, in the D.C. suburbs) is likely to be the only con he gets out to this year — so we suspect any birthday greetings you’d like to send him at gscithers(AT)wildsidepress(DOT)com would be particularly appreciated!