| Weird Tales, the world's first fantasy magazine, launched the careers of legendary storytellers including H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury. Today, a new generation of authors keeps the weirdness flowing as the magazine stomps relentlessly into the 21st century: bizarre, gothic, soul-wrenching, and darkly hilarious. It's a woman who sells her house to a bear. It's a hardworking kid slaving away in the coal mines alongside a father who won't stay dead. It's a V8 engine hurling a car full of drunken rabble-rousers down rainy Wisconsin roads while a realm of ancient legend awaits. And it's a brain-eating zombie girl who's nonetheless a surprisingly good date...
(Featuring stories by Carrie Vaughn, Barth Anderson, Holly Phillips, Richard Parks, Phil Brucato, Lisa Mantchev, Trent Hergenrader, Gerard Houarner, Paul E. Martens, Kurt Newton, Peadar O Guilin, and William Markly O'Neal.) |
