Weird Tales #364

There is a new issue of Weird Tales available. There isn't any date on the cover, but I think it came out in October 2020. Real print-on-paper magazines are supposed to have been sent out in December. That's according to the Weird Tales website.

For some reason, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database does not yet have a listing for this issue. I'm sure there will be one soon. Until that happens, here is a list of credits for Weird Tales #364:

• "Too Late Now" by Seanan McGuire, a California native and a very prolific author.
• "Ellende" by Gregory Frost, an instructor of English at Swarthmore College.
• "Hats" by Joe R. Lansdale, a well-known author from Texas.
• "Lightning Lizzie" by Marie Whittaker, who writes children's books and darker things
• "Last Days" by Dacre Stoker, a Canadian-American author, athlete, and conservationist, also great-grand nephew of Bram Stoker, and Leverett Butts, who teaches at the University of North Georgia.
• "The Beguiled Grave" by Marguerite Reed, a native Kansan.
• "The Last War" by Linda Addison (poem), a Philadelphian who writes verse, fiction, and non-fiction.
• "To the Marrow" by Rena Mason, a Thai-Chinese-American author.
• "Feathers" by Tim Waggoner, an author and teacher of writing at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.
• "Trailer Park Nightmare" by Gabrielle Faust, a writer and artist.
• "No One Survives the Beach" by Weston Ochse, a Westerner and an author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and comic book scripts.
• "The Good Wife" by Lee Murray, a New Zealander about whom I have written before.   
• "The Canal" by Alessandro Manzetti (poem), an Italian author and poet.

The cover art is by Lynne Hansen, an artist, writer, and filmmaker from Illinois. If I had to give a piece of advice to the editors and publishers of the new Weird Tales, it would be this: Don't make us hunt for the name of the cover artist! She's helping to sell your magazine. Give her some credit. Anyway, I don't know whether there is any interior art, but as an artist, all I can say is that there ought to be. Why else would anyone buy a print magazine?

Anyway again, congratulations to the new Weird Tales for a second issue.

The cover of Weird Tales #364 shows a woman turning into a crow. Her transformation reminds me of what happened to David Hedison's character in The Fly (1958) (same head, same left hand) and Sharlto Copley's in District 9 (2009). All suggest a body horror that must be, I think, deep-seated in us. By the way, there have been corvids on the cover of "The Unique Magazine" before. This one is from September 1939. The cover artist was Virgil Finlay.

Original text and caption copyright 2021, 2023 Terence E. Hanley