This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. Information on the Golden Smog album can be found at Weird Tales (Album) For other definitions of fantasy, see fantasy (psychology). ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any media intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... Golden Smog are a loosely connected group of musicians comprised, at various times, of members of Soul Asylum, the Replacements, Wilco, the Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, and the Honeydogs. ... Golden Smogs second album, released in 1998. ...

The cover of Weird Tales issue May 1934 featuring Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howard's original stories about Conan the Barbarian.

Weird Tales was an American fantasy fiction and horror pulp magazine first published in March of 1923. It was set-up in Chicago by J.C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. Edwin Baird was the first editor of Weird Tales, and his assistant was Farnsworth Wright. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (573x844, 141 KB)The cover of Weird Tales issue May 1934 featuring Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howards original stories about Conan the Barbarian. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (573x844, 141 KB)The cover of Weird Tales issue May 1934 featuring Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howards original stories about Conan the Barbarian. ... Queen of the Black Coast is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in 1934. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... – The Nemedian Chronicles, as quoted in The Phoenix on the Sword (1932), by Robert E. Howard. ... For other definitions of fantasy see fantasy (psychology). ... Pulp magazines (often referred to as the pulps) were inexpensive fiction magazines widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Farnsworth Wright was a British ] who published the book Britain in the Age of Economic Management. ...

Baird was replaced by Farnsworth Wright after fourteen issues. Wright (who suffered from Parkinson's disease) gave Weird Tales a unique identity, and began to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft, as well as the hugely popular Jules de Grandin stories of Seabury Quinn. Another successful contributor was Robert E. Howard, whose Conan the Barbarian stories, amongst many others, were hugely popular. Wright also gave early opportunities to such highly regarded pulp writers as Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith. Wright continued as editor until March 1940, dying in June of that year. H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Jules de Grandin is a fictional supernatural detective created by Seabury Quinn for Weird Tales magazine. ... Seabury Grandin Quinn (aka Jerome Burke) (1889 - 1969) was a pulp magazine author most famous for his stories of the supernatural detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales to great success. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... – The Nemedian Chronicles, as quoted in The Phoenix on the Sword (1932), by Robert E. Howard. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 - August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter, and in his time, a successful author of horror and science fiction short stories. ...

Weird Tales always struggled financially and, like most pulp magazines including the similarly legendary crime fiction title Black Mask, suffered competition from comic books, radio drama, and eventually inexpensive paperback books. After the death of Lovecraft and retirement of Wright, Weird Tales took on a different flavor, but commercially generally declined until it ceased publication in September 1954 after 279 issues. Its later years, under the editorship of Dorothy McIlwraith, were characterised by an influx of newer writers, including such major figures as Bloch, Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Theodore Sturgeon, and Margaret St. Clair, a somewhat more eclectic range, and occasional pieces of "lost" Lovecraft completed, and Lovecraftian pastiches written, by his self-appointed literary executor August Derleth, who also wrote better fiction for the magazine in his own voice. Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... For information on Black Mask, the surrealist group, see Black Mask (NYC). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was a writer. ... Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. ... Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 - February 4, 1958) was a science fiction author born in Los Angeles, California. ... Catherine Lucile Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. ... Theodore Sturgeon (February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American science fiction author. ... Margaret St. ... August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. ...

After several shortlived reincarnations, including four issues as a magazine in the early 1970s edited by Sam Moskowitz and published by Leo Margulies. Robert Weinberg & Victor Dricks purchased the title following Marguiles' death and licensed a series of four paperback anthologies edited by Lin Carter from 1981-1983. Weird Tales was revived under license by publisher/editors George H. Scithers, John Gregory Betancourt, and Darrell Schweitzer in 1988, beginning with issue 290. Some combination of these three have edited it since. The magazine has been reasonably commercially successful, as far as fiction magazines go, publishing notable modern writers such as Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, and Thomas Ligotti. It became part of the DNA Publications chain for several years around the turn of the millennium, and has since been sold to a combination of this revival's founders, as a Terminus and Wildside Press Publication. Sam Moskowitz (1920-1997) was an early fan and organizer of interest in science fiction and, later, a writer. ... Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American science fiction/fantasy author, editor and critic. ... George H. Scithers (born 1929) is a science fiction author and editor. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tanith Lee Tanith Lee (born September 19, 1947) is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. ... Brian Lumley (born December 12, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. ... Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan) is a writer of horror stories. ...

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