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The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales

Author : Justin Everett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442256222
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales written by Justin Everett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the pulp magazine Weird Tales appeared on newsstands in 1923, it proved to be a pivotal moment in the evolution of speculative fiction. Living up to its nickname, “The Unique Magazine,” Weird Tales provided the first real venue for authors writing in the nascent genres of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Weird fiction pioneers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Catherine L. Moore, and many others honed their craft in the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, and their work had a tremendous influence on later generations of genre authors. In The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, Justin Everett and Jeffrey Shanks have assembled an impressive collection of essays that explore many of the themes critical to understanding the importance of the magazine. This multi-disciplinary collection from a wide array of scholars looks at how Weird Tales served as a locus of genre formation and literary discourse community. There are also chapters devoted to individual authors—including Lovecraft, Howard, and Bloch—and their particular contributions to the magazine. As the literary world was undergoing a revolution and mass-produced media began to dwarf high-brow literature in social significance, Weird Tales managed to straddle both worlds. This collection of essays explores the important role the magazine played in expanding the literary landscape at a very particular time and place in American culture. The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales will appeal to scholars and aficionados of fantasy, horror, and weird fiction and those interested in the early roots of these popular genres.

The Weird Tales Story

Author : Robert Weinberg
Publisher : Pulp Hero Press
ISBN 13 : 9781683902225
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Weird Tales Story written by Robert Weinberg and published by Pulp Hero Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weirdest Story Ever Told In this definitive history and analysis of Weird Tales magazine, Robert Weinberg's original narrative is expanded and enhanced with contributions from a who's who of pulp scholars, including S.T. Joshi, Darrell Schweitzer, Mike Ashley, Rob Roehm, Bobby Derie, Jason Ray Carney, Adrian Cole, Morgan Holmes, and Terence E. Hanley. The new material includes chapters on the most influential contributors to Weird Tales, as well as contemperaneous authors who should have been contributors to Weird Tales but who were not. The history of the magazine is extended past its initial demise in 1954, and the cover story of the first issue, Anthony Rud's "Ooze," is reprinted in its entirety. ..."dive in and refresh your memories, or, if this is all new to you, find out what it was all about, and be amazed, dazzled and inspired!" -Award-winning author Adrian Cole

Weird Tales

Author : George H. Scithers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales written by George H. Scithers and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weird Tales #325

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434437825
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales #325 written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales #325 (Fall 2001) features "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth," by Darrell Schweitzer; "The Gravedigger's Apprentice," by Alvin Helms; "Our Temporary Supervisor," by Thomas Ligotti; "Where All Things Perish," by Tanith Lee; "The Wizard of Ashes and Rain," by David Sandner, and more.

The End of the Story

Author : Clark Ashton Smith
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 1612107931
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The End of the Story written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Clark Ashton Smith Single. Set the in the Land of Averoigne a narrative by written by the young Christophe Morand about his unaccountable disappearance in 1798.

The Best of Weird Tales

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Weird Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled generations of readers throughout the world. Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales ' first year of publication, 1923?classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.

Weird Tales

Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition represents a select collection of Lovecrafs's greatest horror & fantasy works. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Some of Lovecraft's work was inspired by his own nightmares. His interest started from his childhood days when his grandfather stirred his interest in the weird by telling him his own original tales of Gothic horror. Contents: Dagon The Statement of Randolph Carter The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs From Beyond The Temple Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Quest of Iranon The Moon-Bog The Outsider Herbert West—Reanimator The Hound The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival The Shunned House The Horror at Red Hook He Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu Pickman's Model The Strange High House in the Mist The Silver Key The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Colour Out of Space The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing on the Doorstep The Evil Clergyman The Haunter of the Dark

Best of Weird Tales (1923)

Author : John Gregory Betancourt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479444090
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Best of Weird Tales (1923) written by John Gregory Betancourt and published by . This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled generations of readers throughout the world. Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales' first year of publication, 1923 -- classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.

Weird Tales

Author : Weird Tales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781312909809
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales written by Weird Tales and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales was an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. The sub-genre pioneered by Weird Tales writers has come to be called weird fiction.- Excerpted from Weird Tales on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Weird Tales of Modernity

Author : Jason Ray Carney
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476636141
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales of Modernity written by Jason Ray Carney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like the "Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard. They did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to the stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, these three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about such philosophical questions as the function of art and the brevity of life.

Weird Tales #363

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733286800
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales #363 written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chicago by the Book

Author : The Caxton Club
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646864X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Chicago by the Book written by The Caxton Club and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.

The Modern Weird Tale

Author : S.T. Joshi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786462493
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Weird Tale written by S.T. Joshi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those who have obtained merely transient popular renown. Accordingly, the author regards the complex, subtle work of Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein, and Thomas Ligotti as considerably superior to the best-sellers of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and Anne Rice. Other writers such as William Peter Blatty, Thomas Tryon, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris are also discussed. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a pioneering attempt to chart the development of weird fiction over the past half-century.

Ooze

Author : Anthony M. Rud
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479464791
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Ooze written by Anthony M. Rud and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2021 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ooze debuted in 1923 in the first issue of the classic horror and fantasy magazine Weird Tales, it became the cover story—and a legendary tale that readers would talk about for years to come. Along with works by Otis Adelbert Kline, Farnsworth Wright (who would later become the editor), W.H. Holmes, Harold Ward, and many others, the self-style "Unique Magazine" would continue for decades and welcome such authors as Robert E. Howard (of Conan the Barbarian fame), H.P. Lovecraft (the Cthulhu Mythos), Robert Bloch (author of Psycho), and many, many more

Weird Tales #327

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434437698
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Weird Tales #327 written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales #325 (Fall 2001) features "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth," by Darrell Schweitzer; "The Gravedigger's Apprentice," by Alvin Helms; "Our Temporary Supervisor," by Thomas Ligotti; "Where All Things Perish," by Tanith Lee; "The Wizard of Ashes and Rain," by David Sandner, and more.

Weird Tales ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (487 download)

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Horror Literature through History [2 volumes]

Author : Matt Cardin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Horror Literature through History [2 volumes] written by Matt Cardin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set offers comprehensive coverage of horror literature that spans its deep history, dominant themes, significant works, and major authors, such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Anne Rice, as well as lesser-known horror writers. Many of today's horror story fans—who appreciate horror through movies, television, video games, graphic novels, and other forms—probably don't realize that horror literature is not only one of the most popular types of literature but one of the oldest. People have always been mesmerized by stories that speak to their deepest fears. Horror Literature through History shows 21st-century horror fans the literary sources of their favorite entertainment and the rich intrinsic value of horror literature in its own right. Through profiles of major authors, critical analyses of important works, and overview essays focused on horror during particular periods as well as on related issues such as religion, apocalypticism, social criticism, and gender, readers will discover the fascinating early roots and evolution of horror writings as well as the reciprocal influence of horror literature and horror cinema. This unique two-volume reference set provides wide coverage that is current and compelling to modern readers—who are of course also eager consumers of entertainment. In the first section, overview essays on horror during different historical periods situate works of horror literature within the social, cultural, historical, and intellectual currents of their respective eras, creating a seamless narrative of the genre's evolution from ancient times to the present. The second section demonstrates how otherwise unrelated works of horror have influenced each other, how horror subgenres have evolved, and how a broad range of topics within horror—such as ghosts, vampires, religion, and gender roles—have been handled across time. The set also provides alphabetically arranged reference entries on authors, works, and specialized topics that enable readers to zero in on information and concepts presented in the other sections.