OK, now that the Rapture is over and the only ones left are us, I thought this would be a good time to tell you a bit about how things are going at Weird Tales. Our new submissions portal has been up and running for about 4 months now (thanks to Neil Clarke and Matt Kressel). It’s very popular – we received almost 100 submissions on the first day!
And of course, once more we’re running a bit behind (currently reading stories in Mid-March) but making steady progress. We’ve received close to 3000 stories via the portal so far and are still receiving snail mail submissions as well (about 4-5 a day). My editorial assistants and I are happy to see so many impressive stories, but frustrated that we just don’t have the space for all of them (working on something to help rectify this – stay posted ). So thanks to all for your patience while we work hard to get to each and every one of you.
Some news – just a small sampling of stories we’ve recently acquired that you will see later this year (please note: this is not all of them):
Stephen Graham Jones – an amazing post-apocalyptic zombie story (no, you’ve not seen one like this before).
Annalee Newitz – monstrous weirdness in an alternate future of San Francisco
Conrad Williams – a photographer finds something strange
Tamsyn Muir – a young girl is schooled in the many ways of magic (Harry Potter this is not, trust me)
Tom Underberg – A Sin eater in search of something he must have in order to feel again
Jamieson Ridenhour – Unusual musical Deal with the Devil story in the Deep South
Leena Likitalo – Short bizarre story from this up-and-coming Finnish writer
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is Fear of the Unknown.
New Issue!