Weird Tales

“Little Old Ladies”, written by Lavie Tidhar. The video was created by Gregory Bossert.

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We know…you’ve been wanting more of our nifty “One-Minute Weird Tales.” We finally have a new one: “Best Dressed” by R. Scott McCoy. The video was created by Gregory Bossert.

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At long last, we’re thrilled to launch the first full season of our new web series, “One-Minute Weird Tales.” Story number one is “The Curse and the Revenge,” by Stuart Jaffe, with music by Eric San Juan.

We’ll be releasing these fantastic micro-fictions weekly from now through Halloween. Embed them to your heart’s content — and be sure to follow us via RSS, LiveJournal, or Facebook to catch them all!

(Writers, please note: We have open submissions for these stories.)

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– ) didn’t just create a spooky, ethereal, otherworldly puzzle-solving experience reminiscent of a collaboration between Clark Ashton Smith and M.C. Escher. They also revolutionized videogame architecture, making first-person narrative the default gamer perspective. Another 85 years from now, literary historians will note that moment as the major paradigm shift on the road to truly interactive storytelling — weird or otherwise.