WEIRD TALES
Jan/Feb, 2008

Weird Tales XXX, no X
Issue #348
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FICTION:
- "The House of Idiot Children" by W.H. Pugmire & M.K. Snyder
- "Landscape, With Fish" by Karen Heuler
- "Events at Fort Plentitude" by Cat Rambo
- "The Stone and Bone Boy" by Calvin Mills
- "Renovations" by Matthew Pridham

POETRY:
- "Brief Glimpses from Another World" by F.J. Bergmann
- "Lament for a One-Legged Lady" by Lisa M. Bradley

NONFICTION:
- Weirdism: Amanda Gannon on life as a bipolar werewolf
- Elizabeth Genco interviews Melissa Marr, author of Wicked Lovely
- Lost in Lovecraft: Kenneth Hite explores the Arabian sands in H.P.L.'s stories
- The Cryptic: Darrell Schweitzer on The Last Witchfinder and James Morrow's next novels
- The Library: Book reviews
- Lost Pages: Ira Marcks presents an alternate-universe vision of insanity

ARTWORK:
- Cover art: "Pisces" by Saara Salmi
- Original illustrations by Sam Heimer, Will Koffman, Marc Robinson, Nigel Sade, Daniele Serra, Star St. Germain

WEIRD TALES
March/April, 2007

Weird Tales XXX, no X
Issue #349
Cover by

SPECIAL FEATURE:
- The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years

FICTION:
- "Heart of Ice" by Tanith Lee
- "Creature" by Ramsey Shehadeh
- "The Yellow Dressing Gown" by Sarah Monette
- "The Talion Moth" by John Kirk
- "Detours on the Way to Nothing" by Rachel Swirsky
- "Black Petals" (new Elric novella) by Michael Moorock

POETRY:
- "A Compleynte on the Deth of Sir William Thatcher, Sumtyme Ycleped Ulrich of Lichtenstein" by Geoffrey Chaucer

NONFICTION:
- Interview: Jeff VanderMeer chats with weird fantasy novelist China Míeville
- Weirdism: Stephen Geigen-Miller on his pulp-fiction heritage
- Lost Pages: Ira Marcks presents a snapshot of modern Innsmouth...
- Lost in Lovecraft: ...and Kenneth Hite explores why H.P.L.'s characters sought asylum in Arkham
- Excerpt: Csilla Csori discusses the science of Dune's gholas and how to raise the dead
- The Bazaar: Cherie Priest meets a steampunk Cthulhoid amulet crafter
- The Cryptic: Darrell Schweitzer on the enduring power of the Blob
- The Library: Book reviews

ARTWORK:
- Cover art: "Break" by Newel Anderson
- Original illustrations by Molly Crabapple, Fantasio, Daniele Serra, Star St. Germain

WEIRD TALES
May/June, 2008

WEIRD TALES
July/August, 2008



vol. , no.
issue #: 350
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SPECIAL FEATURE:
- Summer Reading Weirducopia! Featuring an excerpt from Stephen Hunt's new steampunk novel The Court of the Air

FICTION:
- "All In" by Peter Atwood
- "How I Got Here" by Ramsey Shehadeh
- "Belair Plaza" by Adam Corbin Fusco
- "An Invitation Via Email" by Mike Allen
- "Mainevermontnewhampshiremass" by Nick Mamatas
- "The Stone-Hearted Queen" by Kelly Barnhill
- "Ganaranok" by Rory Steves
- "Evolution" by Karen Heuler
- "Right You Are If You Say You Are" by Norman Spinrad

POETRY:
- "Fame" by F.J. Bergmann

NONFICTION:
- Interview: Elizabeth Genco talks with Mike Mignola about Hellboy, Dracula, and the weird-pulp influence
- Weirdism: Geoffrey H. Goodwin on the affinity between horror and music; Eric San Juan on surviving night terrors
- Lost in Lovecraft: Kenneth Hite follows H.P.L. into Dreamland
- The Cryptic: Darrell Schweitzer on legendary Scottish cannibalism
- Harvey Pelican & Co.: special offers from the esoterica king
- The Bazaar: mythic maskmaking
- The Library: book reviews

ARTWORK:
- Cover art: "Break" by Jason Levesque/stuntkid.com
- Illustrations by Victoria Alexandrova, Steven Archer, Paul Bielaczyc, Ira Marcks, Simone Van Den Berg

WEIRD TALES
September/October, 2008

vol. , no.
issue: # 351
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FEATURES:
- The weird animation of Bill Plympton
- Viktor Koen's biomechanical visions
- Exclusive excerpt: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia

INTERNATIONAL FICTION SPOTLIGHT:
- "First Photograph" by Zoran Zivkovic
- "The Gong" by Sara Genge
- "The Dream of the Blue Man" by Nir Yaniv
- "The Wordeaters" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
- "Out of Sacred Water" by Juraj Cervenak
- "Time and the Orpheus" by chiles samaniego
- "BleakWarrior Meets the Sons of Brawl"

POETRY:
- "The Monster With the Shape of Me" by Brian J. Hatcher

NONFICTION:
- The Library: Elizabeth Genco talks with author Lauren Groff about writing The Monsters of Templeton
- The Bazaar: Jessica Joslin's crazy steampunk critters
- Weirdism: Robert Isenberg on the cinema's latest obsession with apocalyptic futures
- Lost in Lovecraft: Kenneth Hite dives literarily into the Pacific Ocean and pulls up H.P. Lovecraft
- Harvey Pelican & Co.: special offers from the esoterica king

ARTWORK:
- Cover art: "Skelephron" by Viktor Koen
- Illustrations by Steven Archer, Hellstern, Ira Marcks and more

Weird Tales is the original storytelling magazine of the dark and fantastic. This issue: Clowns on the warpath; an exclusive interview with author Neil Gaiman; original stories of dark fantasy from Tim Pratt, Michael Bishop, and Kathe Koja; a Lovecraftian Christmas carol by Eric Lis; and much more!

FICTION

- "How to Play With Dolls" | by Matthew Cheney
- "Far & Wee" | by Kathe Koja
- "The Last Great Clown Hunt" | by Chris Furst
- "A Lake of Spaces" | by Tim Pratt
- "Catastrophe" | by Felix Gilman
- "The Matching Pair" | by Mark Budman
- "Ms Ito's Bird" | by Chris Ward
- "Wendigo" | by Michaela Morrissette
- "Purr" | by Michael Bishop
- "My True Lovecraft Gave to Me" | by Eric Lis
- "The Man With the Myriad Scars" | by Ben Thomas

FEATURES

- "Neil Gaiman: The Weird Tales Interview" | Lisa Mantchev catches the dream king wowing fans in Seattle, and Bill Baker chats him up about The Graveyard Book and the 20th anniversary of The Sandman.

DEPARTMENTS

- The Bazaar | fantastical clocks and bizarre books
- The Library | Gene Wolfe goes Broadway
- Lost In Lovecraft | a literary journey with Kenneth Hite

Cover illustration by Vance Kelly