Weird Tales Magazine

Weird Tales #353 presents a selection of fine stories by modern writers, including Paul Tremplay and Robert Davies, plus features by Kenneth Hite (Lost in Lovecraft), Jason Heller (The Greatest Poison), Amanda Gannon (The Bazaar), and more! Plus an interview with horror legends Thomas Ligotti and artist Richard Corbin.

Weird Tales #359 is a special celebration of all things Poe, with a special features dedicated to Poe's influence on modern writers, fiction and poetry inspired by Poe, plus an interview with Joe Schreiber, the usual features, and much general weirdness. Another great issue!

Weird Tales #360 is a special Elder Gods issue, featuring creepy new stories by many horror & dark fantasy luminaries, including: Brian Lumley - "The Long Last Night" Michael Shea - "Momma Durtt" Michael Reyes - "The Darkness at Table Rock Road" Darrell Schweitzer - "The Runners Beyond the Wall" Matthew Jackson - "Drain" William Blake-Smith - "The Thing in the Cellar" Parke Godwin - "To Be a Star" Jessica Amanda Salmonson - "The Empty City" .....& many more! As if that isn't enough...you'll also find a Ray Bradbury tribute, with rare fiction, poetry, and non-fiction about Bradbury: "The Exiles" (original version), by Ray Bradbury "My New Ending to Rosemary's Baby," by Ray Bradbury "Personal Memories of Ray Bradbury," by Marvin Kaye "Remembrance," by Ray Bradburya

Tales of blood, magic, and steel by masters of the craft! Stories, essays, and poetry by: Kevin J. AndersonBruce BostonGreg CoxDana Fredsti & David FitzgeraldNeil GaimanTeel James GlennMaxwell I. GoldHoward Andrew JonesBrian W. MatthewsGreg MollinJames A. MooreWeston OchseMarguerite ReedCharles R. RutledgeJane Yolen

Welcome to a very special issue of Weird Tales. This issue celebrates the Bram Stoker Awards, the "Oscars" of the horror trade. They are presented every year by the Horror Writers Association (www.horror.org), a group founded in 1985 (and incorporated in 1987) by a collective of masters of that genre, including Joe R. Lansdale, Karen Lansdale, Robert McCammon, and Dean Koontz. This issue is packed with short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay-all written by past winners of the Bram Stoker Award. Whether you are familiar with horror at its finest or are a longstanding fan, you'll find much to love here. Familiar and unfamiliar faces, inventive storytelling approaches, and a whole lot of creepy fun. "The Eyrie" by Jonathan Maberry"Cannibal Dwight's Last Chance" by Nancy Holder"REM Sleep" a poem by Bruce Boston"Under the Fang, Then and Now" by Maxwell I. Gold"It Was the Night of the Demon" by Gabino Iglesias"The Want" by Yvonne Navarro"Brought Back" by Ramsey Campbell"The Time Less Gambit" by Linda D. Addison"The Real Trends Jen" by Lee Murray"Cul-de-Sac" by Del Howison"When the Masks Come Off" by Tim Waggoner"The Gathering Time" a poem by Marge Simon"On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" by Joe R. Lansdale"Places My Father Left" by Mercedes M. Yardley"The Telephone Game" by Eric J. Guignard"Imaginary Beings" a poem by Cynthia Pelayo

You can't have a good tale of monster hunting without monsters. And sometimes the monsters don't need to be hunted. Sometimes it's fun sitting back at minimum safe distance and watching the mayhem. Weird Tales Magazine used to be nicknamed "The Unusual Magazine," which is a bit of truth in advertising. And this issue hits that bull's-eye pretty solidly. There are monster stories (short stories and flash), monster poems, and even an essay about monsters to be found here. But they're each a little outside of the conventional box. Each writer brought a curious kind of game here, twisting the established models, skewing expectations, and having some very dark fun spinning creepy yarns about monsters of all kinds. So, lock the doors, turn down the lights, and dig in. It's about to get scary in here. "What Mike Saw" by Isaac Marion"Charakakon" by Johnny Compton"Gorgeous" by Delilah S. Dawson"Kolchak: Bruises on the Flesh of God" by Charles R. Rutledge"Riddle" by Gwendolyn Kiste"Straw Man" by Peter Clines"Lagniappe" by Dennis K. Crosby"Soft Shells" by Clay McLeod Chapman"Termination Agreement: Flash Fiction" by Wayne Brady"My Hideous Secret Garden: A Prose Poem" by Maxwell I. Gold"Death Carries a Peculiar Perfume" by Ellen Hopkins"Dinner with Mom" by Ray Porter"Putting the Hell in Hell Week" by J. Rose"Born in the Bayou: Swamp Monsters Great and Small" by Chris Ryall

Spectral visitations… World-conquering spiders… An ancient feud with an enchanted forest… Demonic paintings… Zombies, mummies, vampires… … and more. Founded in 1922, Weird Tales is an iconic publication of fantasy, science fiction and horror stories. Weird Tales is the forerunner to today's pulp and speculative fiction genres. Within these pages you'll find some of the best of the classic stories originally published in Weird Tales during the years 1926 and 1927, collected into a single volume. Featuring stories by legendary authors such as Seabury Quinn, E. Hoffman Price, Greye La Spina, Edward Hamilton, Frank Belknap Long Jr., H. Warner Munn, August W. Derleth, A. Merritt, and H.P. Lovecraft.

First hitting newsstands in 1923, Weird Tales magazine quickly became a literary monster in discovering and publishing the best horror, sci-fi and fantasy writers of its day. The pulp magazine was one of the earliest publications, if not the first, to feature strange tales of occultism and alien invasions that simply didn't fit into any other magazine at that time. The stories struck a chord with those early audiences, and as a result,Weird Tales created asubgenre as "weird" could be attached itself to various genres. Marquee names like master magician Harry Houdini and cosmic horror creator H.P. Lovecraft graced the magazine's pages during those early years with several debut stories, alongside authors who were already giants in their own right-Otis Adelbert Kline, Seabury Quinn, and Greye La Spina. Maybe lesser known, but no less influential, writers like Frank Belknap Long Jr., Mary S. Brown, Lyllian Huntley Harris, Hasan Vokine, Arthur J. Burks, and H. Warner Munn turned out disturbing yarns that have stood the test of time only to be resurrected nearly a century later. From the macabre and morbid to unexplainable stories of theoccult, this collection features those early authors across thirteen tales of terror from the impactful years of 1923 to 1925 that are best enjoyed at the witching hour. Reading ritual aside, you've been warned.