[28] She also added new contributors; as well as publishing many of Ray Bradbury's early stories, Weird Tales regularly featured Fredric Brown, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Fritz Leiber, and Theodore Sturgeon. 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Bathed in blue, she thought the clearing looked painted from the light of the moon. [113], Delaney's personal taste also reduced McIlwraith's latitude. He added "I must confess that the main motive in establishing Weird Tales was to giv… "[138], The publisher subsequently overruled Kaye and announced that Weird Tales no longer had plans to run the excerpt. Bloch's story was "The Shambler From the Stars", which appeared in the September 1935 issue; Lovecraft's riposte was "The Haunter of the Dark", in December 1936. Debuting in 1923, Weird Tales, writes The Pulp Magazines Project, provided “a venue for fiction, poetry and non-fiction on topics ranging from ghost stories to alien invasions to the occult.”The magazine introduced its readers to past masters like Poe, Bram Stoker, and H.G. INTERVIEW: Rena Mason. Finlay received $100 for his first cover, which appeared in 1937, over a year after his first interior illustrations were used; Weinberg suggests that the higher fee was partly to cover postage, since Brundage lived in Chicago and delivered her artwork in person, but it was also because Brundage's popularity was beginning to decline. "The Black Kiss" (with Robert Bloch) (1937) Bloch tells us this is a collaboration with Kuttner, but Bloch's name appears alone above "The Black Kiss" in a 1951 issue of The Avon Fantasy Reader, where I read it. Ashley quotes the digest-sized issues from the end of McIlwraith's tenure as fetching £8 to £10 each as of 2008. [136] Kaye wrote an essay titled "A Thoroughly NONRACIST Novel" defending his decision to publish the excerpt. March 4th 2019, from Stalking Horse Press. [111], McIlwraith was an experienced magazine editor, but she knew little about weird fiction, and unlike Wright she also had to face real competition from other magazines for Weird Tales' core readership. By Geneve Flynn | Weird Tales talks with Lee Murray, whose story “The Good Wife” will appear in issue #364. [88] The story was very well received by readers, and Moore's work, including her stories about Jirel of Joiry and Northwest Smith, appeared almost exclusively in Weird Tales over the next three years. [120] Damon Knight, who sold some interior artwork to Weird Tales in the early 1940s, recalled later that he was paid $5 for a single-page drawing, and $10 for a double-page spread; he worked slowly and the low pay meant Weird Tales was not a viable market for him. "Miskatonic University library Periodical Reading Room – Weird Tales", "Culture : Weird Tales : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia", "List of Conventions| World Fantasy Convention", "Top helmers on 'Tales' team… Sky-high Sly price", "Locus Online News » Kaye to Buy Weird Tales", "World Fantasy Convention Special Preview Issue", "Lois Tilton Reviews Short Fiction, Mid November 2012", "WEIRD TALES IS BACK! Eastman died in 1934, and with him went Henneberger's plans for recovering control of Weird Tales. [24], Cornelius retired in 1938, and Popular Fiction Publishing was sold to William J. Delaney, who was the publisher of Short Stories, a successful general fiction pulp magazine based in New York. The magazine that never dies has returned -- with Bram Stoker Award-winner Jonathan Maberry leading the way as Editorial Director. The next was dated Fall 1981;[46] Carter's rights to the title were terminated by Weinberg in 1982 for non-payment, but the fourth issue was already in the works and finally appeared with a date of Summer 1983. Chris Mentillo: Weird Tales of Horror By:Chris Mentillo,Jeremy R. Mentillo Published on 2013-10-29 by CreateSpace. He acquired the Weird Tales property from Leo Margulies in the mid 1970s and immediately set about reviving the title and the franchise with WT 50: A Tribute to Weird Tales (1974), a self-published paperback that included material both old and new. Leiber subsequently sold them all to John W. Campbell for Unknown; Campbell commented each time to Leiber that "these would be better in Weird Tales". These were well-received, and a group of writers associated with Lovecraft wrote other stories set in the same milieu. Doug Ellis, John Locke, and John Gunnison. [168], This article is about the pulp magazine. British Library, 2019 300 pp paperback So far there are thirteen books in the British Library Tales of the Weird series, making me wonder if we've come to the end because of the supernatural association with the number thirteen. August 10, 2018 [127] Ashley's opinion of the two Bellerophon issues is low: he describes them as lacking "any clear editorial direction or acumen". Explore. By the end of the 1920s he was unable to sign his name, and by the late 1930s Bill Sprenger was helping him get to work and back home. Weird Tales was known for printing works of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, Robert Bloch and many, many other notable genre authors. [11] The pay rate was initially low, with a cap of half a cent per word until 1926, when the top rate was increased to one cent per word. Vol 68, No.1 -Issue # 363. [149] In Ashley's words, "somewhere in the imagination reservoir of all U.S. (and many non-U.S.) genre-fantasy and horror writers is part of the spirit of Weird Tales". In Weinberg's words, "only the quality of the stories [separated] their work between the two pulps". Sep 22, 2020. [9][10] The writers Henneberger had been hoping to publish, such as Garland and Hough, failed to submit anything to Baird, and the magazine published mostly traditional ghost fiction, with many of the stories narrated by characters in lunatic asylums, or told in diary format. He acquired the Weird Tales property from Leo Margulies in the mid 1970s and immediately set about reviving the title and the franchise with WT 50: A Tribute to Weird Tales (1974), a self-published paperback that included material both old and new. [53], On August 23, 2011, John Betancourt announced that Wildside Press would be selling Weird Tales to Marvin Kaye and John Harlacher of Nth Dimension Media. The issues published from 2012 through 2014 were from Nth Dimension Media. Wildside Press, owned by John Betancourt, joined DNA and Terminus Publishing as co-publisher, starting with the July/August 2003 issue, and Weird Tales returned to a mostly regular schedule for a few months. Wright also sold hardcovers of books by some of his more popular authors, such as Kline, in the pages of Weird Tales. [notes 7] Other regular contributors included Paul Ernst, David H. Keller, Greye La Spina, Hugh B. Cave, and Frank Owen, who wrote fantasies set in an imaginary version of the Far East. Tellers of Weird Tales Friday, January 25, 2019 Who Was Arthur Pendragon? For years afterward there wasn't any news forthcoming from the publishers, and the Weird Tales website was stuck in an information-less state. The result was a series of four paperback anthologies, edited by Lin Carter, appearing between 1981 and 1983;[45] these were originally planned to be quarterly, but in fact the first two both appeared in December 1980 and were both dated Spring 1981. By James Aquilone | Weird Tales talks with the writer, director and producer of the Howard Lovecraft animated movies. Henneberger had been hoping for submissions of "off-trail", or unusual, material. Howard's characters were piling up. Cornelius became the company treasurer; the business manager was William (Bill) Sprenger, who had been working for Rural Publishing. Note: 1923-1954: Initially a companion magazine to Detective Tales, Weird Tales was the stomping grounds for H. P. Lovecraft, with frequent contributions by Frank Belknap Long, August W. Derleth, E. Hoffmann Price, Donald Wandrei, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. Few copies were printed; reports vary between 1,500 and 2,300 in total. Join Plus+ for $9 a month to access bonus podcasts & premium content! [103] Sword and sorcery stories, a genre which Howard had made much more popular with his stories of Conan, Solomon Kane and Bran Mak Morn in Weird Tales in the early 1930s, had continued to appear under Farnsworth Wright; they all but disappeared during McIlwraith's tenure. He augmented that income writing for other magazines, most notably Fight Stories, Oriental Stories, and Action, in a number of genres. Edited by Greg Buzwell. Directors Tim Burton, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone were executive producers, with each one expected to direct an episode. [122][123][124], The letter column, "The Eyrie", was much reduced in size during McIlwraith's tenure, but as a gesture to the readers a "Weird Tales Club" was started. From Summer 2010 the format was quarto. A single pulp issue appeared in Fall 1998, and then the format returned to large pulp until the Fall 2000 issue, which was quarto. [30][33], The price was increased to 20 cents in 1947, and again to 25 cents in 1949, but it was not only Weird Tales that was suffering—the entire pulp industry was in decline. [125], Toward the end of McIlwraith's time as editor a couple of new writers appeared, including Richard Matheson and Joseph Payne Brennan. Some months before the release of issue 359, a special World Fantasy Convention preview issue was given away for free to interested attendees. [29], The Depression also hit the Hall Printing Company, which Henneberger had been hoping would take over the debt from Cornelius; Robert Eastman, the owner of Hall, at one point was unable to meet payroll. The decision was made despite the protests of VanderMeer, and prompted her to end her association with the magazine. An increase from 144 pages to 160 pages starting with the February 1939 issue, along with the use of cheaper (and hence thicker) paper, made the magazine thicker, but this failed to increase sales. Ashley describes Wright as "erratic" in his selections, but under his guidance the magazine steadily improved in quality. Lansinger. [140], In 2019 Weird Tales returned with author Jonathan Maberry as the editorial director, with issue #363 being released at the end of that year. [59], Henneberger gave Weird Tales the subtitle "The Unique Magazine" from the first issue. [40][notes 5] Instead Margulies mined the Weird Tales backfile for four anthologies which appeared in the early 1960s: The Unexpected, The Ghoul-Keepers, Weird Tales, and Worlds of Weird. A long hiatus ended with the December 2004 issue, which appeared in early 2005; this was the last issue under the arrangement with DNA. Weird Fiction. Today. The middle issue was 64 pages long; the other two were 48 pages. The printing company was owned by B. Cornelius, who agreed to Henneberger's suggestion that the debt should be converted to a majority interest in a new company, Popular Fiction Publishing. Weird Tales contributors Victor LaValle & Lisa Morton chat about their work, weird fiction and much more. [76] In late 1925 Wright added a "Weird Tales reprint" department, which showcased old weird stories, typically horror classics. [50][51] The size was the same as the original pulp version, though it was printed on better paper. A strange figure foretells tragedy … ... 2019. [12], Baird stayed with Lansinger, so Henneberger wrote to H. P. Lovecraft, who had sold some stories to Weird Tales, to see if he would be interested in taking the job. October 11, 2019; The Cities of Magic StoryBundle! Descent Into Avernus has been dominating my D&D brain discourse lately, and alignment is one aspect I'd like to talk about. Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End. Moore day". [50], In April 1995, HBO announced they had plans to turn Weird Tales into a three-episode anthology show similar to their Tales from the Crypt series. Henneberger decided to sell both magazines to Lansinger and invest the money in Weird Tales. Weinberg also regards "The Floor Above" by M. L. Humphries and "Penelope" by Vincent Starrett, both from the May 1923 issue, and "Lucifer" by John Swain, from the November 1923 issue, as memorable, and comments that "The Rats in the Walls", in the March 1924 issue, was one of Lovecraft's finest stories. Weird Tales From Lake Travis, Texas. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest. The four 1970s issues were in pulp format. There were also limited edition hardcover versions of each issue, signed by the contributors. They were not advertised as reprints, which led in a couple of cases to letters from readers asking for more stories from H. P. Lovecraft, whom they believed to be a new author. In 1938, the magazine was sold to William Delaney, the publisher of Short Stories, and within two years, Wright, who was ill, was replaced by Dorothy McIlwraith as editor. Unfortunately, Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales, had an adversarial relationship with H. P. Lovecraft. Gristle: weird tales by Jordan A. Rothacker. Lamont says that he is still renegotiating his contract and is not sure where he stands". [142][143], Weird Tales was one of the most important magazines in the fantasy field; in Ashley's view, it is "second only to Unknown in significance and influence". [98] Demand from readers for Finlay's artwork was so high that in 1938 Wright commissioned a series of illustrations from Finlay for lines taken from famous poems, such as "O sweet and far, from cliff and scar/The horns of Elfland faintly blowing", from Tennyson's "The Princess". Originally this often included reprints of poems such as Edgar Allan Poe's "El Dorado", but soon most of the poetry was original, with contributions coming from Lovecraft, Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith, among many others. Weird Tales, January 1952. [114][notes 9], McIlwraith continued to publish many of Weird Tales' most popular authors, including Quinn, Derleth, Hamilton, Bloch, and Manly Wade Wellman. Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith were friends of Lovecraft's, but did not contribute Cthulhu stories; instead Howard wrote sword and sorcery fiction, and Smith produced a series of high fantasy stories, many of which were part of his Hyperborean cycle. He was born on St. Patrick's Day and was christened almost three months later, on June 10, 1923, at Tabor Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. Ashley suggests that the better pulp writers from whom Baird did manage to acquire material, such as Francis Stevens and Austin Hall, were sending Baird stories which had already been rejected elsewhere. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed. Birch. Blood will mark them, the letter read. Issues produced in this format include Summer 1988, Spring/Fall 1989, Winter 1989/1990, Spring 1991, and Winter 1991/1992. [47], In 1982 Sheldon Jaffery and Roy Torgeson met with Weinberg to propose taking over as licensees, but Weinberg decided not to pursue the offer. In 2008, Mike Ashley estimated the first issue to be worth £3,000 in excellent condition, and added that the second issue is much rarer and commands higher prices. Von Junzt’s Nameless Cults is first introduced in The Black Stone (Weird Tales, April/May 1931).Also known as the Black Book, Nameless Cults is said to have been published in 1839 just before the author died in “a grisly and mysterious fashion” from a “hounding doom.”Black book is not an unusual name for a historical grimoire. Other price guide editions From: The 2019 Price Guide for 1980's Marvel & DC Newsstand Canadian Cover Price Variants (Type 1A) by Bill Alexander, Paul Clairmont, Walter Durajlija, Jon McClure, Benjamin Nobel, Doug Sulipa, and Angelo Virone [ introduction, table of contents, all titles ] Weird War Tales Values #116-124 Issue Direct Edition Value CanadianVariantCover Price… 1973-1974: After aquiring the rights to the name Weird Tales, Leo Margulies … The first three paperbacks edited by Lin Carter were priced at $2.50; the fourth was $2.95. August Derleth also provided assistance and advice, although he had no formal connection with the magazine. [6] Weird fiction, science fiction, and fantasy all appeared frequently in the pulps of the day, but by the early 1920s, still no single magazine was focused on any of these genres, though The Thrill Book, launched in 1919 by Street & Smith with the intention of printing "different", or unusual, stories, was a near miss. The first issue was dated Summer 1998, and, other than the omission of the Winter 1998 issue, a regular quarterly schedule was maintained for the next four and a half years. [133], in 2011 Marvin Kaye and John Harlacher purchased Weird Tales from John Gregory Betancourt[134] with Kaye taking over chief editorial duties from VanderMeer. In 1939 a campaign by Fiorello LaGuardia, the mayor of New York, to eliminate sex from the pulps led to milder covers, and this may also have had an effect. [141] This issue featured the story "Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle, which later won the Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. [100], During the 1930s, Brundage's rate for a cover painting was $90. Then fifty paces ahead and you’ll find the midnight ones. [104] In 1935 Wright began running weird detective stories to try to attract some of the readers of these magazines to Weird Tales, and asked readers to write in with comments. Some months before the release of issue 359, a special World Fantasy Convention preview issue was given away for free to interested attendees. [102] Although Unknown folded in 1943, in its four years of existence it transformed the field of fantasy and horror, and Weird Tales was no longer regarded as the leader in its field. From Summer 1998 to July/August 2003 the publisher was DNA Publications and Terminus, listed either as DNA Publications/Terminus or just as DNA Publications. Weird Tales: Let’s Make A Character For today’s installment of Weird Tales, let’s dive right in and create a character for Shadow of the Weird Wizard . By M.K. [74] His first issue, November 1924, was little better than those edited by Baird, although it included two stories by new writers, Frank Belknap Long and Greye La Spina, who became popular contributors. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos stories first appeared in Weird Tales, starting with "The Call of Cthulhu" in 1928. Log in. June 13, 2019; Book Release Announcement for PHANTOM LIMB ITCH! “The unique magazine”, aka “the magazine that never dies”, is considered by many one of the most influential pulp magazines of our era. In Weinberg's opinion the poor cover art, frequently by R. M. Mally, was probably partly to blame for the magazine's lack of success under Baird. It was assembled by Wright and Kline, rather than Baird. This is now regarded by magazine historians as having been the start of the pulp magazine era. Sales were weak, never rising above 6,000 copies, and DNA began to experience financial difficulties. [11][151], Weird Tales was in pulp format for its entire first run except for the issues from May 1923 to April 1924, when it was a large pulp, and the last year, from September 1953 to September 1954, when it was a digest. [23] Although Popular Fiction Publishing continued to be based in Chicago, the editorial offices were in Indianapolis for a while, at two separate addresses, but moved to Chicago toward the end of 1926. [109] Another debate that was aired in the letter column was the question of how much science fiction the magazine should include. [61] Tennessee Williams' first sale was to Weird Tales, with a short story titled "The Vengeance of Nitocris". [11][151], Some of the early Terminus editions of Weird Tales were also printed in hardcover format, in limited editions of 200 copies. [77] Although Wright's editorial standards were broad, and although he personally disliked the restrictions that convention placed on what he could publish, he did exercise caution when presented with material that might offend his readership. [28][30] Henneberger's share of Popular Fiction Publishing was converted to a small interest in the new company, Weird Tales, Inc., a subsidiary of Delaney's Short Stories, Inc.[11][30] Dorothy McIlwraith, the editor of Short Stories, became Wright's assistant, and over the next two years Delaney tried to increase profits by adjusting the page count and price. Mark Beech To save money the format was changed to a larger flat size, starting with the Winter 1992/1993 issue, but the magazine remained in financial trouble, with issues becoming irregular over the next couple of years. [120] In Weinberg's review of Weird Tales' interior art, he describes Humiston's work as ranging "from bad to terrible", but he is more positive about the others. Wildside Press then bought Weird Tales, and Betancourt again joined Scithers and Schweitzer as co-editor. May 9, 2021 Weird Darkness Weird Darkness Episodes. This did not eliminate all of the magazine's debts, but it meant that Weird Tales could continue to publish, and perhaps return to profitability. Price had revised the story before passing it to Wright, and after Wright and Price discussed the story, Wright bought it, in November of that year. Reader reaction was uniformly negative, and after a year he announced that there would be no more of them. For other uses, see. mixcloud.com. [71][72], The new editor, Farnsworth Wright, was much more willing than Baird had been to publish stories that did not fit into any of the existing pulp categories. Henneberger gave Weird Tales the subtitle "The Unique Magazine" from the first issue. By James Aquilone | The Weird Tales editorial director talks about weird fiction, upcoming stories, and how he stays so productive. [61][62] The cover story for the first issue was "Ooze", by Anthony M. Rud; there was also the first installment of a serial, "The Thing of A Thousand Shapes", by Otis Adelbert Kline, and 22 other stories. [127] The subsequent paperback series edited by Lin Carter was criticized in similar terms: Weinberg regards it as having "too much reliance ... on the old names like Lovecraft, Howard and Smith by reprinting mediocre material ... New writers were not sufficiently encouraged",[127] though Weinberg does add that Ramsey Campbell, Tanith Lee and Steve Rasnic Tem were among the newer writers who contributed good material. [90][91][92] Lovecraft's contributions included ten of his "Fungi from Yuggoth" poems, a series of sonnets on weird themes that he wrote in 1930. I.O.U. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In this case he did not change his mind. [75] Over the following year, Wright established a group of writers as regulars, including Long and La Spina, and published many stories by writers who would be closely associated with the magazine for the next decade and more. Henneberger changed the schedule to bimonthly, starting with the February/March 1931 issue; six months later, with the August 1931 issue, the monthly schedule returned. Monday, January 14, 2019. Among the names listed in the January 1943 issue was that of Hugh Hefner, later to become famous as the founder of Playboy. In about 1921, Wright had begun to suffer from Parkinson's disease, and over the course of his editorship the symptoms grew gradually worse. By the end of the year Wright had been hired as the new editor of Weird Tales. The five were Dolgov, John Giunta, Fred Humiston, Vincent Napoli, and Lee Brown Coye. [119] Weird Tales' paper was of very poor quality, which meant that the reproductions were poor, and along with the low pay rate for art this meant that many artists treated Weird Tales as a last resort for their work. Clark Ashton Smith had stopped writing, and two other writers who were well-liked, G.G. [41], Margulies died the following year, and his widow, Cylvia Margulies, decided to sell the rights to the title. [118] Bok, whose first cover had appeared in December 1939, moved to New York and joined the office art staff for a while; he eventually left because of the low pay. [94] For over three years in the early 1930s, from June 1933 to August/September 1936, Brundage was the only cover artist Weird Tales used. Robert Weinberg, author of a history of Weird Tales, records a rumor that Wright was unpaid for much of his work on the magazine, but according to E. Hoffmann Price, a close friend of Wright's who occasionally read manuscripts for him, Weird Tales was paying Wright about $600 a month in 1927. After careful scrutinizing, Bloch picked up a copy of Weird Tales and was hooked. In the U.S. an anthology titled Not at Night!, edited by Herbert Asbury, appeared from Macy-Macius in 1928; this selected 25 stories from the series, with 24 of them drawn from Weird Tales. [134] However, both the essay and Kaye's decision to publish the excerpt were heavily criticized, with N. K. Jemisin saying "This is how you destroy something beautiful" with regards to the magazine[137] and Jim C. Hines saying he was "highly disturbed that the editor ever thought this was in any way a good idea, that he was so supportive of this novel that he was going out of his way to defend and support it … up until the Internet landed on his head.
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