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The Weird Tradition

Description: Focusing on the unique group of writers who wrote horror and dark fantasy fiction for WEIRD TALES, UNKNOWN, ASTOUNDING, and other pulp magazines, including Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, and others.

Feel free to discuss such varied topics as Lovecraft in the cinema, WT artists and related magazines, contemporary horror writers - such as Brian Lumley and Michael Shea - who have utilized WT themes, and those "Great Old Ones", Poe, Hawthorne, Machen, and Dunsany.

Most recent members: dutts, theoldman, amercer, vanbilderass, HerbertWest, Ettigirb, highlandersbooks, unorna, LadyLovecraft, bruceandceals, paradoxosalpha, dukedom_enough, elyd, Charlie2300, dkgarton, clparson, NightHawk777, MsrScott, goydaeh, Baviv, lilystrange, Gregzilla, ifjuly, swpopper, ajourneyroundmyskull, Malcadon, rtttt01, AaronWTimm, inkdrinker, arthurfrayn — 68 total

Created: Aug 9, 2007 by KentonSem; Language: English