Weird Tales Magazine No. 366: Sword & Sorcery Issue

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You, the Living [ Du Levande] (2007)– 50 bittersweet, absurdist sketches on the crushing mundanity of everyday life The Magic of For the Killing of Kings: An Interview with Howard Andrew Jones", Ilana C Myer, B&N Reads, 2019 Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam [AKA T he Man Who Saved the World, AKA Turkish Star Wars] (1982)– Nonsensical Turkish dementia that appropriates Star Wars (and a lot of other stolen Hollywood clips)

The Devils (1971)– Ken Russell’s most violently deranged film is the true-ish story of a convent of nuns who accuse a priest of being an incubus in league with the Devil Prometheus’ Garden (1988)– Thirty minutes of morphing claymation insanity in a mythological universe The Lair of the White Worm (1988)– Ken Russell’s ultra-fun, tongue-in-cheek horror movie filled with phallic symbols and impaled nuns Come to Daddy (2019) – A recovering alcoholic hipster reunites with his estranged father, followed soon by his aggrieved criminal associates Eyes Without a Face [ Les Yeux sans Visage] (1965) – Georges Franjou’s influential, poetic horror filmIf I remember correctly, August Derleth actually beats out Seabury Quinn for having the most stories in Weird Tales, but not by much. Much of Quinn’s fiction was the tiresome “Jules de Grandin” series where a French doctor and expert on everything thwarts various supernatural (and sometimes non-supernatural) menaces in the town of Harrisonville, N.J. “Roads” is the greatest fantastic Christmas story ever written. Quinn gives an origin story for Santa Claus. From the Darkness Beneath". first published in Terra Incognita: Lost Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure, DMR Books, 2022 Nosferatu [ Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens; Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror] (1922)– F.W. Murnau’s unauthorized Expressionist adaptation of “Dracula” is a melange of sex and disease Careful (1992)– Residents of an Alpine village fear avalanches and their own incestuous desires in this comic surrealist melodrama shot in “two-strip” Technicolor

Birds Without Feathers (2018)– The lives of six isolated, unhappy characters intersect in increasingly surreal ways Country Gold (2022)– A rising country star meets his hero, George Jones, and endures a series of outlandish tall tales The Woman in the Dunes [ Suna no onna] (1964)– Existential allegory where an amateur entomologist is trapped in a sand pit with a widow, forced to shovel sand to survive Time Bandits (1981)– Time-traveling, thieving dwarfs feature heavily in this weird kiddie film mixing fantasy, comedy and theology

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Evil space plants, lecherous dragons, and the mysteries of the vampire haunt the stories of Weird Tales #364. The Ruling Class (1972)– The 14th Earl of Gurney is unfit to serve in the House of Lords because he believes he is God, but he becomes even worse after he is “cured” The Triplets of Belleville [ Les Triplettes de Belleville, AKA Belleville Rendez-vous] (2003)– Three retired jazz singers help a nearsighted grandma and her overweight dog save a bicyclist from art deco gangsters in this dialogue-free animation set in a surrealistic 1940s milieu H. Warner Munn decided to write a story from the viewpoint of the werewolf. H. P. Lovecraft suggested the idea in “The Eyrie” in Weird Tales. Munn ran with it.

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)– This fifteen minute afternoon nightmare with cloaked figures with mirrored faces gave birth to the American avant-garde Visitor Q [ Bijitâ Q] (2001) – Takashi Miike’s story about a mysterious visitor who disrupts dysfunctional family dynamics breaks the lactation taboo The Element of Crime (1984)– In a trance, a detective remembers a case in Europe in this literally hypnotic neo-noirTokyo Gore Police [ Tôkyô Zankoku Keisatsu] (2008)– A female cop hunts spontaneously mutating serial killers in this very weird, often imitated splatterpunk classic Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)– A CIA agent goes undercover in the virtual world of PsychoBook to fight a virus named “The Soviet Union” and it’s ally, the King of Ethiopia