A sneak peek at Molly Crabapple's awesome cover to the Weird Tales steampunk issue, which will be available for order in a few weeks, and wherein you'll find an unforgettable novella by Lisa Mantchev & James Grant, fiction by Jay Lake and Kurt Kirchmeier, features on recent kickass books like Boneshaker and The Brothers Grossbart, and a lot more!


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...we won a Hugo for Weird Tales.

A few additional thoughts:

1. We thanked a lot of people onstage, but in the rush to finish, we didn't manage to thank one very, very important, albeit long-deceased, group: Jacob Clark Henneberger and Farnsworth Wright and H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard and Margaret Brundage and Virgil Finlay and Clark Ashton ( Read more... )

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At long last, Weird Tales is 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 ( Read more... )

In the wake of Realms of Fantasy's relaunch, the past week or so has seen a lot of discussion online about fantasy magazine covers. Since I devote a large portion of my brain to designing magazine covers, I've decided that this is going to be the primary topic for my kaffeeklatsch at Worldcon next week: REDESIGNING F/SF MAGAZINE COVERS FOR THE 21ST ( Read more... )

I didn't know Charles Brown personally. But the man founded a magazine and then kept it running for forty years, inspiring readers all along the way, and I do have an idea of just what a herculean task that was. Well done, sir. Rest in peace.

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Via greygirlbeast comes this clip of John Hodgman (humorist, The Daily Show's resident expert, and the PC in the Mac & PC commercials) quizzing President Obama on his geek bonafides. People who are not nerds will be too bored to make it through the clip. Nerds, on the other hand, will be surprised and sorry that it isn't longer, because hey, couldn't he have ( Read more... )

“Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related; may we never even pretend that we are not.” -Fred Rogers, 2002

2008 was a pretty incredible year for Weird Tales. For those of you who aren't subscribed to the LJ feed at weirdtales_mag , I've posted our year-in-review -- from the 85 Weirdest Storytellers to the Spam Fiction Contest to the Blasphemous Horrors to the oodles and oodles of brilliant stories -- at the magazine's site.

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I will be forever grateful to annathepiper  for unearthing the greatest thing that has ever been posted on YouTube. A tribute to John Williams:

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