The Weird Tales Story

by Robert Weinberg

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The Weirdest Story Ever ToldIn 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 show more 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 show less

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Despite it's relatively short length (134 pp) this is a fast-food history of Weird Tales, a unique market for preheat pulp fiction. From founders, author profiles and editors to cover and interior artwork, with a lengthy chronology that discusses such things as when regular authors made first appearances, including H.P. lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Seabury Quinn, and a first publication by Tennessee Williams. Great magazine, great book.

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