Weird Tales Magazine and they have their 2nd issue since their re-launch coming out this Friday. The publisher (filmmaker and director) John Harlacher and editor in chief Marvin Kaye (The playwright, author and anthologist) have made an attempt to take the magazine back to its roots. Each new issue has a mixture of Themed and non-themed fiction. The first relaunch issue (#360) had HPL’s “Old Ones” as it theme with original fiction by Brian Lumley, Michael Shea and Darrell Schweitzer among others.
The newest issue has “Fairy Tales” as it’s them with fiction by Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) and Tanith Lee and non-fiction by Darrell Schweitzer. so you can see that they are going all out to bring in name writers.
Here’s the link to their announcement…
Table of Contents for Weird Tales #361: The Fairy Tales Issue
FICTION: FAIRY TALES
- “The Queen Who Could Not Walk” by Peter S. Beagle
- “Magpied” by Tanith Lee
- “Fae for a Day” by Teel James Glenn
- “I Am Moonflower” by Nicole Cushing
- “Blind Alley” by Morgan Llywelyn
- “Suri & Sirin” by Court Merrigan
- “The Flowers of Tir-na-nog” by J. R. Restrick
- “The Miracles of LaGuardia Airport (Delta Terminal)” by Caitlin Campbell
- “A Gnomish Gift” by Alex Shvartsman
- “Enough” by Jane Yolen
- “Gold” by Lauren Liebowitz
- “The Brown Man of Glen Gardens” by Frank Aversa
- “The King’s Enemies” by Marc Bilgrey
- “The Crimson Cloak” by Zach Shephard
- “The Lute Player and the Mask” by Dick Baldwin
- “Payment” by Alfred Vickers III
- “Out of Time” by Manny Frishberg
TALKING FAIRY TALES INTERVIEWS by Lynne Jamneck
- With Ramsey Campbell, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Elizabeth Bear, and Orrin Grey
UNTHEMED FICTION
- “As Fleas” by Jon Koons
- “Black Poppy” by David W. Amendola
POETRY
- Scotland in October (Glencoe) by Carole Buggé
- Dangerous Dreams by Jill Bauman
- Merciless by Andrew J. Wilson
- Waste by Arinn Dembo
ESSAY
- Ninety Years of Weird Tales by Darrell Schweitzer
INTERVIEWS
- With Tessa Farmer (on her fascinating and strange fairy world) by C. J. Thom
- With J. David Spurlock (on Margaret Brundage, and his book about her) by Lynne Jamneck
Covers and interior art by Jeff Wong