The Best of Weird Tales
Title | The Best of Weird Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Kaye |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | 134 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 188044853X |
Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled generations of readers throughout the world. Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales' first year of publication, 1923 -- classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.
The Best of Weird Tales
Title | The Best of Weird Tales PDF eBook |
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Release | 2015 |
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Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled generations of readers throughout the world. Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales ' first year of publication, 1923?classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.
Necronomicon
Title | Necronomicon PDF eBook |
Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
Publisher | Gateway |
Total Pages | 582 |
Release | 2008-09-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0575086033 |
WIKIPEDIA says: 'H.P. Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect.' His tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. THE NECRONOMICON collects together the very best of Lovecraft's tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were originally published. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as being a must-buy for those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.
Rivals of Weird Tales
Title | Rivals of Weird Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Weinberg |
Publisher | Random House Value Publishing |
Total Pages | 520 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Some of the best from the golden age of weird fiction pulps (the 1930s and 1940s). Includes Tales of Magic and Mystery, Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Horror Stories, Strange Stories, and more.
Great Weird Tales
Title | Great Weird Tales PDF eBook |
Author | S. T. Joshi |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-08-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486143236 |
14 spellbinding tales, including "The Sin Eater," by Fiona McLeod, "The Eye Above the Mantel," by Frank Belknap Long, as well as renowned works by R. H. Barlow and Lord Dunsany.
H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales
Title | H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Allen Anderson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
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"Discover the roots of modern horror by reading the master's favorite stories, those which inspired, awed, and scared him! This is the only collection in print of stories selected by H. P. Lovecraft himself"--Book jacket.
100 Wild Little Weird Tales
Title | 100 Wild Little Weird Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan R. Dziemianowicz |
Publisher | Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages | 612 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781566195577 |
Weird Tales, the acknowledged leader of pulp magazine fantasy from 1923 to 1954, provided many of the genre's wildest and wooliest stories. Here are 100 of the magazine's greatest, written by the best and brightest writers of macabre tales of horror. Every story is guaranteed to bewilder, disturb, and excite. Witness H.P. Lovecraft's tales of extradimensional terror; discover the worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, which in Lovecraft's words are "a universe of remote and paralyzing fright"; then explore Henry S. Whitehead's quest into the spectral mysteries of the West Indies. The distinguished contributors to this collection challenged traditional notions of fiction by writing tales in ways previously unexplored. Seabury Quinn's blend of the detective story and terror in his accounts of occult investigator Jules de Grandin, E. Hoffman Price's retelling of Eastern myths and legends, and Manly Wade Wellman's tales of Souther folklore are all groundbreaking examples of invention through experimentation. Although Weird Tales is renowned primarily for its short stories and novellas, the magazine also introduced its readers to "sudden," or shorter-than-short, fiction. For example, consider the contrast between Florence Crow's vampire in traditional guise in "The Nightmare Road" and that of Richard F. Searight's in "The Sealed Casket." Also discover how Clark Ashton Smith in "The Last Incantation" and H.P. Lovecraft in "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" intensified the psychological setting of their stories by cultivating a stylized prose form appropriate for their arcane horrors. 100 Wild Little Weird Tales is a superb selection of Weird Tales' best and most bizarre. It proves that good things -- or in the case of weird fiction, bad things -- come in small packages.