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Ann VanderMeer's award-winning tenure at Weird Tales was cut short when the magazine was bought by a new crew — but the print world's loss is the internet's gain. VanderMeer and her husband, Jeff VanderMeer, have started a new online magazine, the Weird Fiction Review, which just launched today. More »
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Weird Tales Magazine has been many different things, under many different sets of eyes, over the decades. And now, the magazine is starting yet another new chapter, as a new owner and editor takes over. More »
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We always suspected the lush, surreal covers of Germany's 1919 fantasy magazine Der Orchideengarten would drive people to madness... and now it has come to pass. A Journey Round My Skull posted more Orchideengarten images, and sponsored a bookplate contest. More »
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The first fantasy/horror magazine wasn't Weird Tales — it was Austrian magazine Der Orchideengarten (The Garden Of Orchids), launched in 1919. Featuring H.G. Wells and Karel Capek, the magazine was also known for its lush, surreal art. Gallery below. More »
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Though the science on Fringe is head-slappingly fake, somehow the series makes real science exciting. The show is like a pulpy 1920s serial, and its fantastic plotlines are far more appealing than hard scifi "realism." More »
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We've already shown you zombie Simpsons today, but where were Zombie Bride, Zombie Jesus, and Zombie Sarah Palin this weekend? They were chilling with over a thousand of their undead cohorts at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, where the horrific and the consumer-driven collided for a gory two days. There to celebrate World Zombie Day were actors from Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, as well as the band DEATHMOBILE, sponsor Weird Tales, and The Living Dead editor John Joseph Adams. Let your possibly scum-dripping eyes roam over our gallery of this ghoulish smash from the city that gave us Night of the Living Dead. More »
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The magazine that gave Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, and Margaret Brundage their big breaks has been around for 85 years now. But Weird Tales isn't even close to retiring — this week, the publication celebrates the launch of a gorgeous new website that showcases every intersection of the unique, fantastic, and bizarre. You can now enjoy the devastating creepiness of One-Minute Weird Tales videos, commission your very own gargoyle sculpture, and download a full PDF of the magazine's latest issue. More »
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In May of this year, historically transgressive SF monthly Weird Tales launched a year-long tribute to one of its greatest writers, cosmic horror scribe Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Lovecraft's work fills a lengthy bibliography, and now it can fill the walls of your (no doubt sci-fi-themed) living room as well. Inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos — the Lovecraftian universe of tales that focuses on the extraterrestrial deities who inhabit our world — artist Steven Archer is creating one painting a day for sale at the Weird Tales blog. So far he's had plenty of eerie, supernaturally lovely hits, and there are 235 days to go in the series Weird Tales is calling "Blasphemous Horrors." More »
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Weird Tales magazine wants you to turn all the spam in your inbox into something awesome. Or at least something weird. The venerable publication is sponsoring a "spam-based writing contest" whose winners will be announced next week at Denvention, AKA WorldCon (where your intrepid editors Annalee and Charlie Jane will be romping around). See below for instructions on how mortgages, v1agra, and strange snippets from random pieces of writing could make you a winner. More »
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85 years old this month, Weird Tales is the magazine of the "bizarre and unusual" that sustained the career of H.P. Lovecraft and his scifi-horror pals back in the 1920s when it first launched. In its early days, Weird Tales set itself apart from other pulps by always going one step deeper into the freak zone. Stories dealt with aliens, witches, and mutants. Covers often featured devils making love to ladies, monsters menacing beleaguered ingenues, and (my personal favorite, above) devilish monster ladies making love to scantily clad lovelies. Now the venerable, perverted, brilliant magazine is celebrating its 85th birthday in style. More »
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