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Weirdsmith

Country: US
Total Issues: 9 (as at Jul-2022)

A monthly series that spotlights talented authors of horror and the weird. Each issue will spotlight one author and will feature up to 10000 words of new weird horror fiction from that author.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-2021 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #9, Apr-2022)

Website:   www.terrymwest.com/weirdsmith
Publishers:   Too Much Weird Press
Editors:   Terry M. West



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Weird Smut

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1987 – Summer 1990

Editors: Kathless Jurgens

Weird Space

Country: US

Online magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: 2002

Editors: Scott C. Carr, Pine Bush, New York

Weird Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1996 – #26, 1998: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Fading Shadows, Inc.
Editors:   Tom & Ginger Johnson
Prices:   $5.00



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Weird Story Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1940:

Science Fiction Index

#1, 1946 – #2, 1946:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

Gerald G. Swan, London, England

Editors

Gerald G. Swan

Formats

#1, 1940: pulp
#1, 1946 – #2, 1946: pocketbook

Prices

#1, 1940: 7d
#1, 1946 – #2, 1946: 6d

Pagecounts

#1, 1940: 96pp
#1, 1946 – #2, 1946: 36pp

Frequency

irregular


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Weird Tails

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  1971 – Summer 1975: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   John Moffitt, College Station, TX
Editors:   John Moffitt


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Weird Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 279+4+4+21+4+51+2=364 (as at Jul-2022)

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1923 – Sep-1954:

Science Fiction Index

Summer 1973 – Summer 1974:

Science Fiction Index

Spring 1981 – Summer 1983:

Science Fiction Index

Fall 1984 – Spring 1994:

Science Fiction Index

#1, 1994 – #4, 1996, as Worlds of Fantasy & Horror:

Science Fiction Index

Summer 1998 – Spring 2014, as Weird Tales:

Science Fiction Index

Aug-2019 – present, as Weird Tales:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #364, Dec-2020)

Website: www.weirdtales.com

Publishers

  Mar-1923 – May-1924: The Rural Publishing Corp., Chicago
  Nov-1924 – Oct-1938: Popular Fiction, Chicago
  Nov-1938 – Sep-1954: Weird Tales, Inc. (a subsidiary of Short Stories, Inc.)
  Summer 1973 – Summer 1974: Renown Publications
  Spring 1981 – Summer 1983: Kensington Publishing
  Fall 1984 – Winter 1985: Weird Tales, Los Angeles
  Winter 1985 – Winter 1996/1997: Terminus Publishing, 123 Crooked Lane, King of Prussia, PA 19406
  Summer 1998 – Dec-2004: DNA Publications
  May-2005 – Summer 2011: Wildside Press
  Winter 2012 – Spring 2014: Nth Dimension media

Editors

  Mar-1923 – Apr-1924: Edwin Baird
  May-1924: Henneberger & Kline
  Nov-1924 – Mar-1940: Farnsworth Wright
  May-1940 – Sep-1954: Dorothy McIlwraith
  Summer 1973 – Summer 1974: Sam Moskowitz
  Spring 1981 – Summer 1983: Lin Carter
  Fall 1984 – Winter 1985: Gil Lamont & Gordon Garb
  Winter 1985 – Dec-2006: Darrell Schweitzer
  2007: Stephen H. Segal
  Jan-2008 – Fall 2012: Ann VanderMeer
  Summer 2013 – Spring 2014: Marvin Kaye

Formats

  Mar-1923 – Jul-1953: standard pulp
  May-1923 – Apr-1924: large pulp
  Sep-1953 – Sep-1954: digest
  Summer 1973 – Summer 1974: pulp
  Spring 1981 – Summer 1983: pocketbook
  Fall 1984 – Winter 1985: semi-slick
  Spring 1988 – Winter 1990/1991: neo-pulp
  Spring 1991 – present: large format, newsprint

Frequency

currently quarterly

Related Sites

  The Pulp Magazines Project
  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Online Sources

Online Books (7 issues only)




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Weird Tales (Canada)

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 14+58=72

The first series had identical issues to the respective U.S. issues, as did the later issues of the second series.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1935 – Jul-1936:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: all except Feb-1936 & Jul-1936)

May-1942 – Nov-1951:

Science Fiction Index

(only indexed to Mar-1948; thereafter issues are identical to the US versions)

Publishers

American News Company of Toronto

Mentioned in: The Pulpster #11, 2001



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The Weird Tales Collector

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: 1977 – 1980: Science Fiction Index

Publishers: Robert Weinberg



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Weird Tales Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1999: Science Fiction Index


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Weird Tales (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3+1+23+5=32

Issues & Index Sources

1942:

Science Fiction Index

1946:

Science Fiction Index

Nov-1949 – Oct-1953:

Science Fiction Index

Nov-1953 – Jul-1954:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

  1942: Gerald G. Swan
  1946: William C. Merrett
  Nov-1949 – Jul-1954: Thorpe & Porter



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Weird Terror Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1969/1970 – Fall 1970: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Health Knowledge Inc, New York
Editors:   Robert A.W. Lowndes
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly


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Weird Trails

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Original anthology/magazine, a faux facsimile of an imaginary pulp "magazine of supernatural cowboy stories," with 13 stories by authors including Ron Goulart, Mike Resnick, P.D. Cacek and Ray Faraday Nelson.

Issues & Index Sources: 2004:

FictionMags Index

Publishers: Wildside Press
Editors: Abner Gibber

Weird Western Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-2008: Science Fiction Index

Western Fiction Index
Publishers:   Wild Cat Books
Editors:   Ron Hanna
Formats:   tp
Prices:   $10.99
Pagecounts:   116pp


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Weird Window

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1970 – #2, 1971:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers: David A. Sutton, Birmingham
Editors: James D. Oddey & David A. Sutton


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Weird World

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1955 – Jan-1956: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Gannet Press, Birkenhead
Editors:   possibly Benjamin Emmanuel
Formats:   small pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   48pp
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia


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