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Weird Tales
2002
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WEIRD TALES
Spring, 2002
 

Vol. 58, No. 3
Issue #: 327
publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
editor: George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer
price: $4.95/C$5.95
pages: 50pp
cover art: Dominic Harman


Weird Tales cover

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Novelettes:
The Flicker of a Winter Star..........Tanith Lee [p 48]

Short Stories:
The Cat, the Ladder, and the Man Mo Shrine..........Tony Richards [p 36]
Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby!..........Will Ludwigsen [p 33]
Hero’s Way Out..........Ralph Gamelli [p 62]
Little Dead Girl Singing..........Stephen Gallagher [p 21]
The Quilter..........Michelle Cacho-Negrete [p 42]
Whom Even Death Might Fear..........Darrell Schweitzer [p 27]

Verse:
Illustrated Limerick..........George Barr [p 41]
The Fortune Teller..........Chris Ferrier [p 35]
A Ghost Story..........Mike Allen [p 61]
Memoirs of a Horrorphile..........George Filip [p 47]
Roach Phobia..........Nick Ozment [p 47]
The Word..........Stephen Ely [p 46]

Features:
The Eyrie..........The Readers [p 6]
Shadowings..........Douglas E. Winter [p 17]

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WEIRD TALES
Summer, 2002


Vol. 58, No. 4
Issue #: 328
publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
editor: George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer
price: $4.95/C$5.95
pages: 50pp
cover art: George Barr


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Short Stories:
Alicia..........Ian Watson [p 32]
The Disciple..........David Barr Kirtley [p 26] [Weird Tales Reprint: Dead But Dreaming, ed. Kevin Ross & Keith Herber, Dark Tales Publications, 2002; given as by Donald Barr Kirtley in ToC.]
The Little Nightmusic That Could..........Stephen Woodworth [p 17]
What Are You When the Moon Shall Rise?..........Keith Taylor [p 38]

Verse:
Dragon Slaying..........Chris Ferrier [p 31
Generic Story..........Sally Parker [p 31
Two Illustrated Limericks..........George Barr [p 16]
Moods and Tenses..........Ruth Berman [p 49]
Old Friends..........Darrell Schweitzer [p 25]
Werewolf in a Cage..........K. S. Hardy [p 25]

Features:

The Den..........S. T. Joshi [p 12]
The Eyrie..........The Readers [p 6]


Fewer stories than usual, but the magazine has dropped from 66 pages in recent issues to 50 pages in this one. Editorial feature "The Eyrie" considers J.R.R. Tolkien as a horror writer, and notes recent publications, while S.T. Joshi's review column "The Den" covers Mike Ashley's book about Algernon Blackwood, and the anthology The Children of Cthulhu (ed. Pelan & Adams).
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WEIRD TALES 
Fall, 2002
 

Vol. 59 , No. 1
Issue #: 329
publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
editor: George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer
price: $4.95/C$5.95
pages: 50pp
cover art: Virgil Finlay


 

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Short Stories:
Evil Then Became My Good..........Greig O’Brien [p 16]
In the Murrins..........Ian McDowell [p 19]
Origin of the Species..........James Van Pelt [p 26]
Some Things Don’t Wash Off..........Joel Arnold [p 42]
Uninvited Guest..........Tracina Jackson-Adams [p 46]

Verse:
Coming Home..........Chris Ferrier [p 25]
A Date with Death..........George Filip [p 18]
Igor in Retirement..........John Grey [p 44]
The Mourning After the Night of the Living Dead or: Sometimes It Sucks to Be a Vampire..........Kelly McCullough [p 32]
Nightshapes..........Fred Chappell [p 40]
2-Penny Wish..........Kendall Evans [p 50]

Features:
The Classic Horrors: ..........Allen Koszowski [p45]
The Eyrie..........The Readers [p 4]
Shadowings..........Douglas E. Winter [p 13]
Weird Tales Talks with Tim Powers..........Darrell Schweitzer • iv [Tim Powers] [p 33]


Features include an interview with Tim Powers by Darrell Schweitzer, the editorial "Eyrie" column on submission guidelines (with a remark that more people are trying to write for Weird Tales than are subscribing or buying copies from the newsstands), and Douglas E. Winter's "Shadowings" column about Ramsey Campbell.
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WEIRD TALES 
Winter, 2002
 

Vol. 59 , No. 2
Issue #: 330
publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
editor: George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer
price: $4.95/C$5.95
pages: 50pp
cover art: Stephen Hickman


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Short Stories:
Dreams of the Stone King's Daughter..........Darrell Schweitzer [p 40]
Gifts..........Nina Kiriki Hoffman [p 24]
The King of Rhythm and Blues..........William Michael McCarthy [p 17]
Never Look Back..........Sarah Hoyt [p 26]
Small Town News..........James Van Pelt [p 34]

Verse:
Illustrated Limerick..........George Barr [p33]

Features:
The Den..........John Gregory Betancourt [Weird Tales, Summer, 2002] [p 4]
The Eyrie..........The Readers [p 4]

Illustration:
The Classic Horrors: Ray Bradbury's The Fog Horn..........Allen Koszowski [illustration] [p 50]


• The Eyrie comments on Neil Gaiman's American Gods as myth, and on numerous other books.
• John Gregory Betancourt (alternating with Doug Winter) takes over "The Den" column from S.T. Joshi, commenting about books, anthologies, and audiobooks.
• The last page, a black & white illustration by [World Fantasy Award winner] Allen Koszowski, depicts Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn".
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