Weird Tales

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 (1930- ). Into the Woods put every classic Grimm faerie tale into a food processor and spit them all out bloodied and abused. Sweeney Todd brought the English language’s most fiendish serial killer to colorful, dancing, singing life. And Assassins is a musical circus review of would-be presidential hitmen. Take that, Ziegfeld and Webber!