Well, that was fun.


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The New York Comic Con, coming up next weekend (April 18-20), is a humongous event at the Javits Center that draws some 50,000 attendees. On Friday the 18th at 4pm, the con will host a Weird Tales 85th anniversary panel that promises to be an appropriately unique discussion! Scheduled to participate:

- Myself, WT editorial & creative director;
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Crossposted from www.weirdtalesmagazine.com. To read the daily updates on LJ for the next 85 days, friend
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This month marks the beginning of the 85th anniversary of WEIRD TALES! It was in March 1923 that the first issue hit the streets; before the year was up, Lovecraft and Harry Houdini had joined the fun, and the weirdness was on, baby. So here's a little graphical anniversary present for all the weirdos out there. To decorate your own site, blog, ( Read more... )

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The Weird Tales reading at Eljay's Books in Pittsburgh went smashingly!

First off, I was thrilled that one of the authors was able to attend: Clayton Kroh, whose fine ghost story "The Yankee at the Sitting-Up" will appear in the next issue, and whose grandmother, fortunately, lives in Pittsburgh. Secondly, reading Clay's story was none other than ( Read more... )

Former vice president Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for his work on global warming, saying in his acceptance speech: "The earth has a fever. And the fever is rising." He added: "And the only prescription... is more cowbell."

Pittsburgh-area peeps are hereby invited to a WEIRD TALES reading at Eljay’s Books on the South Side, Friday, Dec. 14 at 7 pm. Join editorial director Stephen H. Segal (that's me), local performers Christiane D. (of the awesome band Soma Mestizo) and Robert Isenberg (a brilliant playwright/actor/journalist who used to write for me at InPittsburgh ( Read more... )

The headline says it all, folks! Check out the WeirdWear via WeirdTalesMagazine.com, through our Zazzle.com shop. Five bucks off every shirt, men's & women's, until midnight tonight...



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Okay, it is not funny that a Canadian cruise ship hit an iceberg and sank (though everyone survived, thank goodness)...

...but it is FUCKING HILARIOUS that the ship was named "MS Explorer."