The New Weird Tales Story

Pulp Hero Press has released an expanded and enhanced edition of The Weird Tales Story, originally edited by Robert Weinberg and published in 1977. The editor of the new edition is Bob McLain. Essayists include S.T. Joshi, Darrell Schweitzer, Mike Ashley, Rob Roehm, Bobby Derie, Jason Ray Carney, Adrian Cole, Morgan Holmes--and me, Terence E. Hanley. My contributions are the essays "Dorothy McIlwraith" and "They Should Have Been in Weird Tales," both of which have appeared in slightly different form in this blog. One really welcome addition is the text of the first cover story in Weird Tales, "Ooze" by Anthony Rud.

The Weird Tales Story: Expanded and Enhanced (Pulp Hero Press, 2021)

Contents

• Publisher's Note by Bob McLain
• Foreword by Adrian Cole
• Preface to the First Edition by Robert Weinberg
• Introduction: A Real Weird Magazine by Jason Ray Carney
• A Brief History by Robert Weinberg
• Farnsworth Wright by E. Hoffmann Price
• Why Weird Tales? by Otis Adelbert Kline
• The Stories by Robert Weinberg
• Dorothy McIlwraith by Terence E. Hanley
• Ray Bradbury by Darrell Schweitzer
• Mary Elizabeth Counselman by Mike Ashley
• August Derleth by Darrell Schweitzer
• Edmond Hamilton by Mike Ashley
• Robert E. Howard and the Early Weird Tales (1923–1925) by Bobby Derie
• Robert E. Howard and the Later Weird Tales by Rob Roehm
• Henry Kuttner by Adrian Cole
• Frank Belknap Long by Mike Ashley
• H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi
• C. L. Moore by Mike Ashley
• Seabury Quinn by Darrell Schweitzer
• Clark Ashton Smith by Mike Ashley
• Manley Wade Wellman by Darrell Schweitzer
• A Fellowship of Fear by Mike Ashley
• They Should Have Been Weird Tales by Terence E. Hanley
• Recollections of Weird Tales by Various Authors
• Gothic to Cosmic: Sword-and-Sorcery in Weird Tales by Morgan Holmes
• Cover Art by Robert Weinberg
• Interior Art by Robert Weinberg
• Beginnings and Ends by Robert Weinberg
• Out of the Eyrie by Robert Weinberg
• Competition by Robert Weinberg
• Since 1954: The Magazine That Never Dies by Darrell Schweitzer
• "Ooze" . . . Back to the Beginning by Anthony M. Rud

At 324 pages, the new Weird Tales Story is longer than the original, but its dimensions are reduced to about the size of a standard pulp magazine, 7 by 10 inches. The cover art is by Tom Barber. Interior artists include Alex Nino and Orvy Jundis, plus many of the original artists who illustrated Weird Tales magazine.

Original text copyright 2021, 2023 Terence E. Hanley