Ben Tucker
The Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica
Celebrated poet and author William Butler Yeats has graced us, in The Secret Rose, with a hauntingly beautiful collection of mystical storie…
The Set-Up
The Set-Up is the classic epic hard-edged poem of an aging African American boxer who is set up to take a fall in the ring against a younger…
The Cinema of Orson Welles
Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) was, early in his career, a film critic. It was during this time t…
Jazz
Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…
The Place Called Dagon
A strange romantic tale of a cult of evil descended from early witchcraft days. Mirroring an unusual element of New England society, it tell…
Dream Tales and Prose Poems
World-renowned Russian author Ivan Turgenev brings us a collection of stories that traffic in the world of dreams, stories of lost love, of …
Revolt of the Birds
As the butterfly is drawn by instinct over thousands of miles to its mate, so the man Hudson is drawn to a deadly island of terrors to the w…
Newshound
The Fourth Estate was highly specializedin the 22nd Century; for example, a good newsmanpredicted coming events—and made them happen.... - S…
Tales Grotesque and Curious
Here collected are eleven of the over 200 stories that Ryūnosuke Akutagawa wrote during his all-too-brief lifetime and give a sample of the …
The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers
Acclaimed British author Arthur Ransome presents us with a small collection of charming and wistful sketches on the character of the street,…
The Fixed Flight
M. Maurice Renard is a modern French author with a wide reputation won by his imaginative scientific romances. This story of a thrilling adv…
The Feasting Dead
Colonel Hapgood, our narrator, has been sending his son Denis to a chateau of a distant relative in the French countryside where the boy has…
The House of Moonlight
As a boy living in Sac Prairie, Wisconsin, with his grandfather Jasper, Steve goes to visit up-and-coming pianist Joel Merrihew and his moth…
Little Poems in Prose
Noted macabre poet Charles Baudelaire later in life wrote this collection of brief sketches, what he deemed "little poems in prose"…
It Walks By Night
A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody…
The Great Return
The small Welsh town of Llantrisant has experienced something unusual... Something wonderful... Something even miraculous. It only lasted a …
333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel
"333" is concerned with those novels which are generally considered the best efforts in Science-Fantasy up to and including 1950. …
Yesterday's Doors
Did you ever find yourself with amnesia, no clue as to who you are or what the secrets of your past holds, confronted by cops trying to beat…
Weird Tales Double Feature: The Skull and The Bodymaster
Horror author Harold Ward is perhaps most well-known for his Doctor Death series of stories published in the 1930s. Before that, Ward relea…
Unutterable Horrors and Loathsome Entities: Early Frank Belknap Long
Of the early Weird Tales Magazine contributors, Frank Belknap Long was one of the most prolific with a career in genre fiction spanning seve…