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. WEIRD TALES
Spring, 2000 


Vol.  , No.
Issue #: 319
Publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
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Fiction:
Elvis Died for Your Sins..........Sarah Hoyt
     1st line: Mid-afternoon in Eternal Life, the only New Age store in Lythia Springs, Colorado, tended to be quiet.
Heart's Blood..........William F. Nolan
     1st line: Remember the shooting at that high school in Roanoke, Virginia, six years ago?
Passing the Narrows..........Frank Tuttle
      1st line: The Yocona surged ahead, paddle-wheel churning, cylinders beating like some great, frightened heart.
Tales from Weston Willow..........Ian Watson
     1st line: The line-up of ales in the Wheatsheaf Inn wasn't too impressive, so I settled for a bottle of Satzenbrau. Nor was the decor much to speak of.
What You Wish For..........Stephen Dedman
     1st line: Roy woke suddenly, and realised that he was still in Mapurtiti. Partly it was the heat--that, and the residual stink from the kangaroo his predecessor had left in the fridge over the Christmas holiday, when the house had been empty and the electricity turned off.

Poetry:
Abduction..........Sam Henderson 
Concerning the Fate of Philip.............Darrell Schweitzer 
Eldritch..........Melissa Pinol 
The Kissing of Frogs..........Bruce Boston 
Phobos..........Bruce Glassco 
The Place of Skulls..........W. Paul Ganley 
Villanelle..........Donald Sydney-Fryer 

Features:
The Eyrie 
Shadowings..........Douglas E. Winter 

 
. WEIRD TALES
Summer, 2000


Vol.  , No.
Issue #320
Publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
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Fiction:
Bad Boy..........James Robert Kimsey
     It was the deal of a lifetime!
     1st line: At midnight, the boy walked to the last booth at the Swap Meet, just as the old, old man was closing up, and snarled, "Your money or your life," as he whipped out his switchblade knife and jabbed it menacingly at the old man.
Callum's Feast
..........Noreen Doyle
     That night, he had to prove himself.
     1st line: "I won't have Redmane Mabryd coming onto Da's Land! I won't!"
Gainful Employment..........Warren Lapine
     Adventure isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
     1st line: Brin cursed as he raced through the forest after his horse.
In the Street of the Witches..........Darrell Schweitzer
     Whoever goes their is forever changed.
     1st line: Tsarag Vin was fourteen years old when he first came to the Street of the Witches.
The Incubus of the Rose..........Brian Stableford
     Their love was not what it seemed, nor was their tragedy.
     1st line: Conrad Othman had lived on the island for four years before the bitter winter came that served as a backcloth to the events which I am about to relate.
One Bad 'Hood..........Michael R. Gist
     No on was safe!
     1st line: "Won't bend that way."
Refuge..........Ken Rand
     Their was only one way to escape the coming death.
     1st line: Adjoa Oyono accepted the basket of enchanted threads from Daura Rumfa because she feared refusing the gift would displease the old fetish priestess.

Verse:
The Horla (As It Might Happen to a Heinlein Hero)..........Kenneth W. Meyer 
Steel Animal Moon..........Ann K. Schwader 
An Unlikely Match..........Darrell Schweitzer and Marilyn Mattie Brahen 

Features:
The Classic Horrors: The Rats in the Walls..........Allen Koszowski 
The Den..........S. T. Joshi 
The Eyrie
Weird Tales Talks with Neil Gaiman..........Darrell Schweitzer

 
. WEIRD TALES 
Fall, 2000

 
Vol.  , No.
Issue #: 321
Publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
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Fiction:
Girls in Green Dresses..........Tanith Lee
     1st line: In the dim diluted light an hour before the dawn, the girl's father took her hand. And soon after they set out on the long walk to the lake among the reeds.
Haunted Shadows..........Keith Taylor
     1st line: "O Ganesh, it was effective! The spell worked!"
I Don't Tell Lies..........Richard A. Lupoff
     1st line: Joseph frowned, the lines in his forehead and around his mouth aging him visibly.
Mr. Darkmore's Neighborhood..........Kiel Stuart
     1st line: here existed in our suburban neighborhood a cornucopia of the bizarre....  Like Aloysius Craig, incipient reverse vampire....  Or the ancient woman, her 1920s bungalow jammed incongruously in the middle of our Levitt boxes. She was a witch.  And then there was Mr. Darkmore.

Three-Legged Dog..........Ian Watson
     1st line: So I come into existence again.

Poetry:
Certainty..........Steve Eng 
A Dangerous Feast..........Kathleen Youmans 
Dreads..........Darrell Schweitzer 
Druid's Ode..........J. W. Donnelly 
Lovecrafty Haiku..........Joanne Morcom 
Tale of the Dread Correspondent..........Bruce Boston 

Features:
The Eyrie 
Shadowings..........Douglas E. Winter

 
. WEIRD TALES
Winter, 2000
 

Vol. , No. 
Issue #: 322
Publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
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Fiction:
Arthur's Toys..........Tim Myers
     Wisdom must be slowly and painfully gained.
     1st line: Arthur was born in dangerous times.
The Family Spirit
..........Lillian Csernica
     Meeting the parents was only the beginning...
     1st line: Ben sat in the armchair, rattling the ice in his scotch. Five of Janice's weird relatives sat around him, smiling and watching him like they were waiting for him to do a trick. It was Christmas Eve.
Five Days in April..........Brian A. Hopkins
     Was it an angel or a demon she saw amoung the dead and dying?
     1st line: In the immediate aftermath, Dubbiel prowled the rubble, struggling through the dust and billowing smoke, buffeted by the failing masses of bleeding downtown employees who failed to see him.
Ghosts from an Enchanter Fleeing..........Steven Piziks
     Maybe it was better to let this one go.
     1st line: Terrin yelped and shoved her fingers into her mouth before her mother's lightning-fast knuckles could strike again.
The Jest of Yig..........Don Webb
     He'd just founded the cult, but the horror was very old.
     1st line: I wasn't in the habit of going to New Age bookstores.
The Sea Was in Her Eyes..........Tanith Lee
     He would not die, as long as she desired him.
     1st line: Day by day the great ship swung across the ocean. She was rigged so full she seemed to carry the clouds above her decks.

Verse:
Another Dunwich Scandal..........Darrell Schweitzer 
Four Questions Concerning Witches..........Vivian Vande Velde 
If I've Ever Stumbled..........Nick Ozment 
Illustrated Limericks..........George Barr 
Raison d'Etre..........Steve Eng

Features:
The De
The Eyrie

 
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