WEIRD TALES
Spring, 2003 

Vol.  , No.
Issue #: 331 publisher: DNA Publications; Radford, VA
editor: George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer
price: $5.95/C$6.95
pages: 50pp
Cover Art: Les Edwards

The Spring 2003 issue (#331) of WEIRD TALES is the 80th anniversary, all-star issue. This marks the first time any magazine in our field has reached 80 years of existence. 

Fiction:
Purity..........Thomas Ligotti
Blood Chess..........Tanith Lee
My Name is Nancy Wood..........Gene Wolfe
The Melkart Coin..........Charles Harness
The Company of the Gods..........Keith Taylor.
     [Ed note: The "origin story" in the Kamose Archpriest of Anubis series.]

Verse:
Illustrated limericks..........George Barr
If Stephen King Wrote for the Soaps..........Carolyn Clink
After Hours in the Hall of Heroes..........Darrell Schweitzer.

Features:
The Classic Horrors: Ooze..........Allen Koszwoski.
The Eyrie
Shadowings..........Douglas Winter

"Ooze" was the cover story on the first issue of WT, March 1923.* Now, at last, after 80 years, it is illustrated properly, with the amoeboid blob the author described, rather than the large octopus which graces the cover of the first issue.  Coming up in the future: new stories by Thomas Ligotti, Robert Sheckley, Kelly Vaughn, Brian Stableford, Keith Taylor, David Schow etc.

*OOZE is in print from Wildside Press as part of THE MOON TERROR--it's the bonus tale at the back of this book.

Editorial "The Eyrie" celebrates the magazine's 80th anniversary -- it's older than any SF magazine -- and describes its first issue. There are comments about books received, and responses to letters.

Douglas E. Winter's "Shadowings" column reviews books by Stel Pavlou and others
 

Fiction:
Shatter..........Kelly McCullough
Five Sisters: A Fable..........David J. Schow
The Archpriest's Potion..........Keith Taylor
The Tales of Zanthias..........Robert Sheckley
The Assassin's Retirement Party..........Robert E. Waters

Verse:
The Pratfall of Cthulu..........Darrell Schweitzer
Illustrated Limericks..........by & illustrated by George Barr

Features:
The Eyrie
The Den..........John Gregory Betancourt

Fiction:
The Town Manager..........Thomas Ligotti
Two Shows Daily..........Tim W. Burke
Good Neighbors..........Jamie Ferguson
Maeve..........Lillian Csernica
Manila Peril..........Margaret Carter
Kaddish..........Lisa Batya Feld
Leaving the Sasquatch Business..........Marc Schuster
Kitty Loses Her Faith..........Carrie Vaughn

Verse:
Vilanelle by Moonlight..........Lane Robbins
Bizarremost Bazaar..........Mike Allen
Illustrated Limericks..........George Barr
Final Vengeance..........Alyn Miller

Features:
The Classic Horrors: The Skull of the Marquis de Sade illus. by Allen Koszowski
The Den..........John Betancourt
The Eyrie
Shadowings..........Douglas E. Winter 

The Eyrie, which features a lengthy discourse on the sword and sorcery genre.

WEIRD TALES
Winter, 2003