Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine. It was founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos stories first appeared in Weird Tales, starting with \”The Call of Cthulhu\” in 1928. The magazine ceased publication in 1954, but numerous attempts have been made to relaunch the magazine, starting in 1973.
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Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine. It was founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos stories first appeared in Weird Tales, starting with \”The Call of Cthulhu\” in 1928. The magazine ceased publication in 1954, but numerous attempts have been made to relaunch the magazine, starting in 1973. The longest-lasting version began in 1988 and ran with an occasional hiatus for over 20 years under an assortment of publishers. In the mid-1990s the title was changed to Worlds of Fantasy & Horror because of licensing issues, with the original title returning in 1998. It is regarded by historians of fantasy and science fiction as a legend in the field, with Robert Weinberg considering it \”the most important and influential of all fantasy magazines\”. Other titles following Weird Tales include Detective Story Magazine, Western Story Magazine and The Thrill Book Book Magazine, all of which focused on science fiction, and all appeared frequently in the pulps of the day. The last Weird Tales to run was in the early 1960s, when it was sold to the publisher of Short Stories, William Delaney, and ran until the end of the 1970s. It has been the subject of numerous TV series, including a spin-off series, The Weird Tales Show, which aired on PBS stations in the U.S. in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The series was inspired by the magazine’s subtitle, ‘The Unique Magazine’, and featured stories by H.P.
Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Nictzin Dyalhis, E. Hoffmann Price, Robert Bloch, and H. Warner Munn. It also featured short stories by Ray Bradbury, Hannes Bok, and Edmond Hamilton, among others. The final issue of Weird Tales was published on October 1, 1954, and it was the last to be published by the publisher, Rural Publishing Corporation, until its demise in 1954. The title was later changed to World of Fantasy and Horror, and the last issue was published in 1957. It ceased publication after the death of editor Farnsworth Wright in 1958, and was replaced by Dorothy McIlwraith, who continued to edit the magazine until its last issue in 1962. The name Weird Tales is still used for a number of other pulp magazines, such as The Book Thief and The Detective Story Book Book, which also appeared in the 1920s and 1930s. There is no single magazine focused on any of these genres, though by the early 1920s there was still no single pulp magazine of any single genre. The pulp magazine era is now regarded by magazine historians as having been the start of the pulp magazines era. The original Weird Tales magazine was published by Rural Publishing Corp. of Chicago, in partnership with his former fraternity brother, J. M Lansinger. The company’s first venture was The Humor Magazine, a pulp magazine that appeared twice a month.
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