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Post by killercrab on Mar 7, 2009 21:17:36 GMT
Having just acquired Mike Ashley's WEIRD LEGACIES ( Star 1977) that reprints nine stories from the pulp magazine and started reading it - I was interested in seeing more of the original WEIRD TALES magazine. Here's a decent cover gallery I found. www.coverbrowser.com/covers/weird-tales Dem - any chance you can transfer over your WEIRD LEGACIES piece from the first Vault when you've a chance please? cheers ade |
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Post by lobolover on Mar 7, 2009 21:30:38 GMT
I wonder- did anyone have any plans to reprint the whole contents of the magazine as it ran, in an anthology maybe? Im sure alot of us would buy it (I sure would-if it would be acessible. Making a reprint of THE vintage pulp magazine and not making it cheap is like performing a Wagner opera without music- people in ridiculous costumes yelling in unrecognisable gutural shrieks and cries which "to hear them provokes a profound desire to flee, their eyes never blink and quite frankly they stink like a carcass washed up on the s....." (uhm, wekkm at least the first part)) .
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Post by dem bones on Mar 7, 2009 22:16:19 GMT
Having just acquired Mike Ashley's WEIRD LEGACIES ( Star 1977) that reprints nine stories from the pulp magazine and started reading it - I was interested in seeing more of the original WEIRD TALES magazine. Here's a decent cover gallery I found. www.coverbrowser.com/covers/weird-tales Dem - any chance you can transfer over your WEIRD LEGACIES piece from the first Vault when you've a chance please? cheers ade Will do, but it ain't much cop. You'd probably be interested in this, too, ade. Alistair Durie - Weird Tales (Jupiter, 1979)  Margaret Brundage cover illustration for Hugh Davidson's The Vampire Master, Weird Tales, Oct. 1933.The briefest history of "the unique magazine" and then we're treated to a gallery of every cover illustration, 270 plus in all. Sadly, they're not all reproduced in glorious full color, but this is still a fascinating, if unfussy presentation. Oh, and Weird Legacies. It was on here all the time! |
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Post by killercrab on Mar 7, 2009 23:00:05 GMT
Ah thanks - brilliant! So far I've read the first two entires. The Solomon Kane tale SKULLS IN THE SKY was simple and extremely atmospheric - Howard really knows how to write this stuff. This the first Solomon Kane I've ever read ( and the reason I picked up the book). I particularly liked how Kane decided to take the more dangerous route just for the hell of it! Howard continues to impress. Incidently a new Solomon Kane flick is in the works - but it looks a bit Van Helsing movie in flavour.
THE THREE MARKED PENNIES was a page turner and I can see why it was a fave of the readers. I really like Ashby's intros to each tale - putting 'em in context - which for a novice like me really helps set the scene.
Good value for 99p!
ade
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 8, 2009 19:04:51 GMT
Just read the remarkable wordsworth edition of Solomon Kane. I was astounded at how good these stories are.
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