Weird Tales

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.)

Author J.M. McDermott, whose WT print debut is coming up in our Poe Bicentennial issue in 2009, kicks off our brand new series of “One-Minute Weird Tales.” Embed away!

Originally aired on BBC Radio in 2006, “Weird Tales: The Strange Life of H.P. Lovecraft” features contributions from Neil Gaiman, S.T. Joshi, Kelly Link, Peter Straub, China Mieville and others. The show explores the legendary WT author’s work and biography, exploring his fundamental invention that changed the course of 20th-century literature: cosmic horror, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien.

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!

Think JIM HENSON (1936-1990) and you think Muppets — yet there’s so much more to the man’s genius. His experimental filmmaking ranged from Time Piece to The Cube. Though his interest in puppetry started as a way to get on television, he stayed with it because of the stories it allowed him to tell, and the weirdness from his film work shone maniacally through. Even with the Muppets. Like those dancing tubes with eyeballs in “Java.” (Wait for it.) And hey, what exactly is Gonzo, anyway?

The March/April 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!

Those of us of a certain age and demeanor who recognized Björk Guðmundsdóttir’s weird genius in her early days look back over her 20-year songwriting career with a certain smugness. That swan dress at the Oscars? We saw it coming! Silver-tongued, smart, and refreshingly in touch with her inner primitive, Björk uses the surreal to explore arguably the weirdest landscape of all: what it means to be human. But watch out for those giant rampaging teddy bears.

The March/April 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!

LON CHANEY SR. (1883–1930) wasn’t merely a great actor; he was the first person in Hollywood to truly understand the emotional force that could be wrought by enhancing a human performance — his own — with weird visual tricks. The “Man of a Thousand Faces” almost singlehandedly invented effects make-up; as the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera, he made monsters sympathetic. Ray Bradbury said it best: “He . . . acted out our psyches. He somehow got into the shadows inside our bodies; he was able to nail down some of our secret fears and put them on-screen.”