Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird

06
Jan

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine – 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from giants of speculative fiction, including R.L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Victor LaValle, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Blake Northcott, Hailey Piper, Scott Sigler, James Aquilone, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov.

Only Howard’s THE WORMS OF THE EARTH is included from his stories, including the first illustration.

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Weird Tales 32 Unearthed Terrors

25
Jan

An anthology collecting 32 stories of horror and the macabre, one for each year of the magazines initial run. Storyies by Edmond Hamilton, H. Warner Munn, Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, Jack Williamson, Richard Matheson, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, and many, many more. Includes some of the illustrations from the pulp magazines.

Only Howard’s THE SHADOW KINGDOM is included from his stories.

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Weird Tales #4

08
Dec

Volume four and the last in a collection of various stories that is called Weird Tales #4. Edited by Lin Carter. It’s a revival of the classic fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales. It is also numbered vol. 48, no. 4 (Fall 1981) in continuation of the numbering of the original magazine. The anthology was first published in paperback by American publisher Zebra Books in 1983.

It contains the poem THE DOOM CHANT OF THAN-KUL by Howard.

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