Weird Tales #313 (Summer 1998)

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Darrell Schweitzer. Weird Tales #313 (Summer 1998)

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Editors: Darrell Schweitzer and George H. Scithers.

Managing Editor: Carol Adams.

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While we’d like to get our magazine into that California store, at the same time we have to stop and realize that there’s been a severe winnowing out, and we’re just about all that’s left standing. We must be doing something right. This isn’t the time for us to start emulating the losers.

Our magazine continues to be what it’s always been. Weird Tales, throughout its 75-year history, has presented a range of imaginative fiction, from Conan the Barbarian to H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos to the psychic-detective stories of Seabury Quinn. It found room for stories of childhood terrors by Ray Bradbury (most of the ones that make up his classic collection, The October Country,) and H. Rider Haggard-esque (or Indiana Jonesish) Lost Race novels by Edmond Hamilton. We intend the same, with a common denominator, which may be best expressed by a wonderful phrase, used by a correspondent several issues back, to describe the ideal Weird Tales story: “ominous and magical.”

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