![]() Wells, “ The Stolen Body” (originally published in The Strand Magazine in 1898 reprinted in Weird Tales in November 1925) ![]() “What’s the idea of that?” he added curiously. “Cielo, what an enormous crystal globe, Filippo!” exclaimed Dottore Giuseppe del Giovine, regarding the great inverted glass bell that hung over the professor’s dissecting table. But of course this is just scratching the surface, so leave your own favorites (with links if you’ve got ’em!) in the comments. To celebrate the centennial of the first issue of Weird Tales, here are a few classic stories from the magazine’s glory days that are available to read right now. The modern iteration has been publishing “more or less continuously,” as its editors put it, albeit with several changes in leadership and format, since 1988, which is probably why its new (unofficial) subtitle is “ The Magazine that Never Dies.” The first run of Weird Tales ended in 1954, and since then, much like Dracula, the magazine has been revived, killed, and revived again many times. Howard built up Conan the Barbarian, and that an entire style of literature was flexed and honed and shared. ![]() Lovecraft first published his Cthulhu stories, that Robert E. Subtitled “The Unique Magazine,” it was, as the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction puts it, “the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural and occult fiction,” including horror, fantasy, science fiction, and everything else, well, weird. ![]() ![]() A century ago, on February 18, 1923, the first issue of Weird Tales appeared on American newsstands. ![]()
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