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Post by deuce on May 21, 2017 2:24:46 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 23, 2017 11:12:13 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 22, 2017 16:12:20 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jul 2, 2017 16:09:33 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jul 3, 2017 8:06:30 GMT -5
November, 1941 cover by Hannes Bok. Probably my favorite WT cover, though a few others come very close. I love how it flawlessly incorporates "horror" and "adventure/war through the ages" all in one image. From a design/composition standpoint, it's just about perfect. This cover should be taught in commercial art schools. Essentially, you could put this cover on any issue of Weird Tales and it would kick ass and fit the contents. As "perfect" a cover for WT as there has ever been.
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Post by deuce on Jul 18, 2017 21:05:19 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jul 19, 2017 17:06:28 GMT -5
I hear the response from the Eyrie was less than positive. I have the Altus Press reprint but have yet to read any of them. I believe Doctor Satan appeared in a few early New Pulp tales before it became clear he wasn't in the public domain.
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Post by deuce on Jul 23, 2017 14:10:54 GMT -5
Personally, I've never understood the burning need of some to place a fiery sword between the first incarnation of Weird Tales -- which ended in the 1950s -- and the resurrection of the brand in the '70s. There were some pretty crappy issues -- if not long stretches of such -- during that first period. Much of the art was bad even by pulp standards. Before the original WT died, it had gone through three very different editors. Meanwhile, the paperback incarnation edited by Lin Carter and then the later magazine version edited by Scithers and Schweitzer had some very high quality tales and art, indeed. REH, Lovecraft and others weren't around to push things into the realm of pure genius near as often, but latter-day Weird Tales remained a quality magazine until the VanderMeers took over, IMO. One of the standouts in that latter period was Tanith Lee. She wrote S&S, dark fantasy and straight-up horror with a sensibility not unlike that of Clark Ashton Smith mixed with CL Moore. Her WT stories have now been collected in one volume. I've read most of them and highly recommend this collection. www.immanion-press.com/info/book.asp?id=501&referer=Hpwww.amazon.com/Weird-Tales-Tanith-Lee/dp/1907737790
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Jul 24, 2017 6:52:36 GMT -5
Personally, I've never understood the burning need of some to place a fiery sword between the first incarnation of Weird Tales -- which ended in the 1950s -- and the resurrection of the brand in the '70s. There were some pretty crappy issues -- if not long stretches of such -- during that first period. Much of the art was bad even by pulp standards. Before the original WT died, it had gone through three very different editors. Meanwhile, the paperback incarnation edited by Lin Carter and then the later magazine version edited by Scithers and Schweitzer had some very high quality tales and art, indeed. REH, Lovecraft and others weren't around to push things into the realm of pure genius near as often, but latter-day Weird Tales remained a quality magazine until the VanderMeers took over, IMO. One of the standouts in that latter period was Tanith Lee. She wrote S&S, dark fantasy and straight-up horror with a sensibility not unlike that of Clark Ashton Smith mixed with CL Moore. Her WT stories have now been collected in one volume. I've read most of them and highly recommend this collection. www.immanion-press.com/info/book.asp?id=501&referer=Hpwww.amazon.com/Weird-Tales-Tanith-Lee/dp/1907737790I've got one, maybe two, of the paperback editions edited by LC - would love to complete the collection (unsure how many there are - I'd have to dig into that). As Tony the tiger would say - they're great. But I'm a big anthology aficionado. I really enjoy being able to pick up a collection of short stories by various authors. It's how I 'discovered' many of the writers I've become so enamored with over the years.
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Post by deuce on Jul 29, 2017 9:47:02 GMT -5
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Post by finarvyn on Jul 31, 2017 9:59:40 GMT -5
Kind of expensive, but Goodman Games is reprinting some issues of Weird Tales. (RPG fans may have seen their top-quality reprints of some old Judges Guild D&D modules. I have some of those, but haven't seen the Weird Tales ones and I assume similar quality.) goodman-games.com/store/product-category/weird-tales/They have a dozen on their webstore, at $40 each. I'm not certain how they picked which ones to reprint, but many of them have REH stories listed on the cover. - - - - - - - - - - EDIT: When I was on the website listed above and clicked on Robert E Howard's name it took me to a second screen that has some additional REH-featured reprints.
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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 1, 2017 8:59:22 GMT -5
Kind of expensive, but Goodman Games is reprinting some issues of Weird Tales. (RPG fans may have seen their top-quality reprints of some old Judges Guild D&D modules. I have some of those, but haven't seen the Weird Tales ones and I assume similar quality.) goodman-games.com/store/product-category/weird-tales/They have a dozen on their webstore, at $40 each. I'm not certain how they picked which ones to reprint, but many of them have REH stories listed on the cover. - - - - - - - - - - EDIT: When I was on the website listed above and clicked on Robert E Howard's name it took me to a second screen that has some additional REH-featured reprints. Goodman Games has been putting out a ton of shizz that I want. (Metamorphosis Alpha, Judges Guild stuff) but they do want a kingly price for most of it.
These Weird Tales reprints look awesome!
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Post by deuce on Aug 7, 2017 18:14:21 GMT -5
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Post by bobbyderie on Aug 7, 2017 19:55:47 GMT -5
I love Roads. I've been reading The Compleat Adventures of Jules de Grandin for my sins, but Roads is excellent.
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Post by deuce on Aug 12, 2017 8:54:20 GMT -5
This prop book was a small part of the background plot of the 1995 movie, Get Shorty. There are a few out there on ebay, etc. Obviously, nothing to do directly with WT, but also obviously a nod/homage to Weird Tales.
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