#303 "Nethescurial, The Cocoons, Homecoming"

Weird Tales is the place where two storytelling concepts meet: speculative and alternative. In 1923, when the magazine was originally founded, those two ideas amounted to the same thing. Weird Tales was launched to showcase writers trying to publish stories so bizarre and far out, no one else would publish them — stories of unearthly dimensions and dark possibilities, gothic seductresses and cosmic monstrosities.

After the original magazine operation folded in 1954, there were several brief attempts to revive it — reprint anthologies in the ’60s, four new magazine issues in the ’70s, four original paperbacks in the early ’80s — before a resurrection which has published more or less continuously, albeit through a few format / frequency / ownership changes, to date.

Now published by Weird Tales Inc. – after a successful run by Betancourt’s Wildside Press — Weird Tales has undertaken to recommit itself to the magazine’s original mission — to publish brilliantly strange material that can’t be found elsewhere — even while bringing its unique aesthetics fully into the 21st century.

Articles included:

• Nethescurial
• The Cocoons
• Homecoming
• He Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good
• Miss Plarr
• Visitors
• Revenant
• Scent of Sandalwood
• The Winter Ghosts
• To Become a Sorcerer