WEIRD TALES
Winter, 2009

WEIRD TALES
Spring, 2009

Weird Tales XXX, no X
Issue #353
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Weird Tales is the original storytelling magazine of the dark and fantastic. This issue: Samurai versus dinosaurs; modern horror legends Thomas Ligotti and Richard Corben break down Poe and Lovecraft; a tribute to J.G. Ballard; World Fantasy Award-winning author Jeffrey Ford; and much more!

FICTION

- "Weiroot" | by Jeffrey Ford
- "The Garbacologist" | by Jeff Johnson
- "Headstone in My Pocket" | by Paul G. Tremblay
- "Bruise for Bruise" | by Robert Davies
- "Court Scranto" | by Caleb Wilson
- "Selected Views of Mt. Fuji, With Dinosaurs" | by Hunter Eden

FEATURES

- "Thomas Ligotti: The Weird Tales Interview" | Geoffrey Goodwin asks horror's offbeat genius: must life be so decayingly crummy?
- "Richard Corben: Drawing Upon the Masters" | The comic-book legend tells Bill Baker about adapting Poe and Lovecraft for Marvel's Haunt of Horror.

DEPARTMENTS

- Weirdism | J.G. Ballard: the most mindblowing drug
- The Bazaar | steampunk art sorceress Bethalynne Bajema
- The Library | Tanith Lee and Catherynne Valente
- Lost In Lovecraft | a literary journey with Kenneth Hite

Cover illustration by Saara Salmi

WEIRD TALES
Summer, 2009

WEIRD TALES
 

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Weird Tales is the original storytelling magazine of the dark and fantastic. This issue: the greatest zombie story you'll read this year; Cherie Priest wishes a happy 200th birthday to Edgar Allan Poe; the horror of Star Wars; Alex CF's awesome steampunk artifacts; strange fiction from Eric Red and Michael Swanwick; and much more!

FICTION

- "Ambient Morgue Music" | by Richard Howard
- "Everybody is Waiting for Something" | by Andrea Kneeland
- "The Buzzard" | by Eric Red
- "The House That Smith Built" | by Simon King
- "The Men In That Water" | by Zdravka Evtimova
- "Errata Slip Found in a Copy of the Arkham University Press Trade Paperback Reissue of the Necronomicon" | by Michael Swanwick
- "Twisted" | by Kevin Veale

FEATURES

- "Growing Up Poe" | Five dark storytellers break down the Ravenific One's presence in their young lives, from classroom recitals to angst-ridden longings to nightmare-fueled insomnia.
- "Tell-Tale Homes" | Poe's adult life was marked by a succession of short-term abodes. Nick Mamatas tells us where — and why.

DEPARTMENTS

- The Bazaar | Alex CF invents the past to excavate it
- The Library | never has the Death Star seemed so aptly named
- Harvey Pelican & Co. | special offers from the esoterica king
- Lost In Lovecraft | adrift amid the mysteries of antiquity
- The Cryptic | the best fantasy art book in the history of the world

POETRY

- "Home for the Holidays" by Lucy A. Snyder

Cover illustration by Andrew Trabbold