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Post by deuce on Mar 20, 2018 11:59:09 GMT -5
On Friday night (April 6) at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) there will be a presentation on "The Secret Origins of Weird Tales." Pulp historian John Locke will share stories from his upcoming book, a revisionist history of the disastrous beginnings (1923-24) of "Weird Tales" magazine, a period of tumult and controversy unequalled in the pulps, before or since. He will reveal mysteries which have been suppressed by a code of silence for almost a century now. Who were Henneberger and Lansinger, the founders of the magazine, and what strange forces brought them together? How did first editor Edwin Baird become the wild man of the pulps? What lay buried in second editor Farnsworth Wright’s haunted past that he never dared speak of? What was the uncontrollable “reorganization” that sucked legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft into a vortex he barely understood? Why did world-famous magician Harry Houdini suddenly appear on the covers of the obscure magazine, and just as suddenly disappear? Finally, how did an all-out war behind the scenes at the magazine lead to the long peace of the Wright years? windycitypulpandpaper.com/home/?p=2394
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Post by elegos7 on Mar 20, 2018 16:17:07 GMT -5
On Friday night (April 6) at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) there will be a presentation on "The Secret Origins of Weird Tales." This presentation looks interesting. Hopefully it will be available in a book format soon.
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Post by deuce on May 2, 2018 10:43:13 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 8, 2018 11:57:30 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 4, 2018 10:51:39 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 18, 2018 8:21:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the link Deuce! That site looks to be an incredible resource, plus, Eli Colter is a great pen name for a writer of westerns. Emerald thanks for your info as well! As you say, looks like she was pretty much a WT regular for a while. I just realized Colter was in the historic issue pictured below. What a lineup!
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Post by deuce on Oct 27, 2018 23:39:22 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 20, 2018 1:59:43 GMT -5
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Post by Char-Vell on Dec 20, 2018 9:00:12 GMT -5
The Savage Sword of Santa.
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Post by deuce on Dec 20, 2018 12:08:14 GMT -5
The Savage Sword of Santa. Exactly!
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Post by emerald on Aug 3, 2019 15:03:35 GMT -5
Okay, here's an item vectoring in from time's abyss. You may recall the prototypical 1950's sit-com 'Leave It to Beaver'. Maybe you're old enough to have seen re-runs or maybe you only know it as a meme-worthy example of heart-warming, sanitized, suburban 1950's pop culture.
And maybe you know that the sturdy father figure of the Cleaver clan was played by Hugh Beaumont as a towering example of the All American Good Old Dad, dispensing justice and wisdom along with the kid's weekly allowance. But did you know that Ward Cleaver was a devoted fan of horror fiction in his youth?
In the 13th episode of the first season of 'Leave It to Beaver', 'Voodoo Magic', the kids want to go see a horror film and Mom forbids that they take the youthful Beaver, fearing the film will scar his little mind.
Father Ward goes along with it, but once the kids have left he tells his wife that he has no problem with the horror genre. That he saw hundreds of horror pictures. That he read Dracula four times. And that he subscribed to Weird Tales magazine.
It's here, at around the 3:35 mark...
I cannot recall any mass media mention of Weird Tales like this one, and I certainly did not expect to find one in an episode of Leave It to Beaver from 1958.
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 3, 2019 15:09:40 GMT -5
You’d have thought it was more of a thing for Eddie Haskell...
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Post by Jason Aiken on Sept 23, 2022 22:35:36 GMT -5
I flip through the September 1951 issue of Weird Tales.
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Post by Von K on Jul 5, 2023 20:18:07 GMT -5
Looks like Weird Tales is back to a more regular publication schedule: www.blackgate.com/2023/04/23/the-new-emweird-talesem/One of the recent issues features an Elric yarn from Michael Moorcock, an extract from Howard Andrew Jones' upcoming book Lord of the Shattered Land, and an article on Sword and Sorcery by Charles R Rutledge. (Thanks to DMR Books Links of Steel for the notification).
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