Weird Horror #1


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Welcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, illustration, and commentary. This is the magazine of weird tales that you've been craving. A modern, inclusive, diverse array of pulp fiction and commentary. Long live the new pulp! Our inaugural issue features contributions from David Bowman, Shikhar Dixit, Steve Duffy, Inna Effress, Tom Goldstein, Orrin Grey, Vince Haig, Nathaniel Winter-Hebert, Sam Heimer, John Langan, Suzan Palumbo, Ian Rogers, Naben Ruthnum, Lysette Stevenson, Simon Strantzas, and Steve Toase. FICTION: Shikhar Dixit; Steve Duffy; Inna Effress; John Langan; Suzan Palumbo; Ian Rogers; Naben Ruthnum; and Steve Toase. NON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas. ART: David Bowman; and Sam Heimer; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert. DESIGN: Vince Haig; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert




Weird Horror #2


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Welcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!




The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1


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What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read? For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that? For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. The stories in this volume come from 19 countries on 5 continents and were originally written in 13 different languages. All 20 foreign language stories in this volume are appearing in English for the first time ever. The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world.




Weird Horror


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"Weird Horror edited by Michael Kelly is a new, very promising twice-yearly horror magazine featuring fiction, articles, and reviews. The fiction in the first issue is excellent and I look forward to more."Ellen Datlow, editor of The Best Horror of the Year.Welcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!FICTION: Maria Abrams; Mary Berman; Rob Francis; Marc Joan; Alys Key; Catherine MacLeod; Evan James Sheldon; Kristina Ten; Stephen Volk.NON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas.COVER ART: Nick GuckerINTERIOR ART: Wesley Edwards; and Nathaniel Winter-HebertDESIGN: Vince Haig; and Sam Cowan




Year's Best Weird Fiction


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The inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly derived from early 20th-century pulp fiction, its remit includes ghost stories, the strange and macabre, the supernatural, fantasy, myth, philosophical ontology, ambiguity, and a healthy helping of the outre. At its best, weird fiction is an intersecting of themes and ideas that explore and subvert the Laws of Nature. It is not confined to one genre, but is the most diverse and welcoming of all genres. Hence, in this initial showcase of weird fiction you will discover tales of horror, fantasy, science fiction, the supernatural, and the macabre.




Weird Tales of Horror


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21 Tales and Poems of Weird Horror spanning centuries and continents, but always disturbing close What stirs from yonder gloomy crypt? What really happened during the Cold War's Space Race? Can a king's spirit be trapped in a violin? A lost chapter of Hemingway's Paris years relates to what strange creature of the night? How do you kill a Tengu Lord? What horror did U.S. service men see during the first gulf war while in the deep desert of Arabia that was NOT man made? Does hazing happen at Area 51? And gunfighter Porter Rockwell tangles with supernatural surprises throughout the Old West. "With these tales of many lands and many peoples, David J. West combines an excellent prose style with a brilliant imagination to give us a solid collection of wonderful stories. This is a refreshingly original gathering of weird fiction." --W. H. Pugmire "David J. West, author of 'Heroes of the Fallen', is a strong voice in the field of Sword & Sorcery. His work is evocative, featuring deftly drawn characters, exotic locales and energetic tale spinning."




Weird Horror Comics #1: Strangest Stories in Print


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WEIRD HORRORS is full of all those factors which makehorror comics popular - ghosts, vampires, the undead,rotting corpses, atomic bombs, drugs, torture and a littlebit of irony to make it all seem not quite so bad. Theearly 1950s were the last years for the comic horrorgenre to stretch its creative wings, before the ComicsCode changed all that - and Weird Horrors was ahead of itstime in story and art. It's almost impossible to believethat these stories, which are fresh and cutting-edge today,are over 65 years old! Classic Comics Library brings youall 9 issues, individual and together in CCL #770!These books are reprinted from the best availableimages, and the books will be updated as new copies areuncovered. Sometimes the early and rarer books reflectthe age and the condition of the originals. Our books areNOT digitally remastered; they are taken from scans ofactual comics. Many people enjoy these authenticcharacteristics. If you are not entirely happy, pleasecontact us for exchange or refund at any time!Get the complete catalog by [email protected] get a discount code by liking us onFacebook.com/classiccomicslibrary




Creepy Archives Volume 1


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Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, a hardcover archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine. This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories. *Brilliant, classic Creepy stories from 1964-1966 raised from the dead after twenty-five years. *Featuring work by such comics luminaries as Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, and Frank Frazetta. * Archive editions of Creepy will be the cornerstone of any comic-book library. *Volume One reprints the first five terrifying issues of the magazine's original run, reprinted in the original magazine size!




Creepy Archives Volume 1


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Gather your wooden stakes, silver bullets, and the skeletons in your closet, and prepare for a descent into horror and science-fiction history with Creepy Archives Volume 1! Reanimated in all its gruesome glory in a value-priced paperback format, and in its original magazine size, this terrifying tome presents some of the finest work by comics legends Archie Goodwin, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, Alex Toth, Joe Orlando, Gray Morrow, and more. Collects Creepy magazine issues #1–#5 and includes original letters pages, text features, and ads.




Weird Tales Collection Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1923, Facsimile Edition


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This is the facsimile edition of the first issue of Weird Tales, the hugely influential Pulp Magazine that went on to define many ideas of modern fantasy and supernatural horror. It spawned the careers of writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. This collection includes: The Dead Man's Tale - Willard E. Hawkins Ooze - Anthony M. Rud The Thing of a Thousand Shapes [Part 1 of 2] - Otis Adelbert Kline The Mystery of Black Jean - Julian Kilman The Grave - Orville R. Emerson Hark! The Rattle! - Joel Townsley Rogers The Ghost Guard - Bryan Irvine The Ghoul and the Corpse - G. A. Wells Fear - David R. Solomon The Chain - Hamilton Craigie The Place of Madness - Merlin Moore Taylor The Closing Hand - Farnsworth Wright The Unknown Beast - Howard Ellis Davis The Basket - Herbert J. Mangham The Accusing Voice - Meredith Davis The Sequel [Fortunato] - Walter Scott Story The Weaving Shadows - W. H. Holmes Nimba, the Cave Girl - R. T. M. Scott The Young Man Who Wanted to Die - Anon. The Scarlet Night - William Sanford The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni - Joseph Faus & James Bennett Wooding The Return of Paul Slavsky - George Warburton Lewis The House of Death - F. Georgia Stroup The Gallows - I. W. D. Peters The Skull - Harold Ward The Ape-Man - James B. M. Clark, Jr. This edition is a facsimile, generated from scans of the original magazine, including the ads, news items, and formatting.About the Pulp Fiction CollectionOur modern popular culture would not exist in its current form without the enormous influence of pulp fiction. So named due to the cheap wood-pulp paper used in the printing process, pulp magazines brought affordable fiction options to the masses.