What Are Your Favorite Weird Tales ?

[CYRUS]

The Yellow Sign and Other stories The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W Chamber Edited by S T Joshi

If you've never read anything by Robert W Chambers , then you missing one the weird tale greats !

 

[CYRUS]

I used to love Clark Ashton Smith, more so than Lovecraft even. I don't remember any titles though... I guess it's time for some rereads

In the genre of fantasy , science fiction and horror, Clark Ashton Smith is one the greatest of all. He's also a great poet as well.

Im rereading his stories now.

 

[CYRUS]

Bats Belfry by August Derleth

 

[CYRUS]

The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long.

 

[muskrat]

The Queen of the Black Coast, Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales, May, 1934.

“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

--Conan the Cimmerian

 

[Grace82]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Font know if anyone ever read those, but I loved those books when I was little. The one about the lady with spiders in her face was a really strange one. There's another about a scarecrow that came to life or something that was as equally weird. The pictures were the best part of it, though.

I wish I still had my little collection of those.

Love Alvin Schwartz ...I have books one and two...can never find book 3. I scooped them up at a used book store.

 

[mjs9153]

 

[not_nadine]

muskrat tail. It's weird. Tale! oh, I will show myself out now.

 

[Grace82]

The Man in the Black Suit: Stephen King
The Tell Tale Heart and The Pit and The Pendulum: Edgar Allan Poe
The Whisperer in Darkness: H.P Love Craft
The Bread We Eat in Dreams: Catherynne. M Valente

 

[mjs9153]

Canavan's Backyard by Joseph Payne Brennan
The Finnegan by Ray Bradbury
Rio Grande Gothic by David Morrell
Crouch End by Stephen King
Out There in the Darkness by Ed Gorman

Really,there are just too many to pick,I almost prefer the short story horror or suspense to full length novels..there are a million great stories out there..

 

[CYRUS]

The Queen of the Black Coast, Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales, May, 1934.

“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

--Conan the Cimmerian

One of Howard's best stories.

Poul Anderson wrote a Conan pastiche Conan The Rebel is a prequel story to Queen of the Black Coast .

 

[CYRUS]

The Red Swimmer by Robert Bloch

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[Sundrop]

My favorite weird tales are the tales of legend and lore passed down from my family.
Some are actual happenings, and some are just tall tales. I miss sitting on Grandma's lap and hearing of Raw Head and Bloody Bones.....

 

[GNTLGNT]

My favorite weird tales are the tales of legend and lore passed down from my family.
Some are actual happenings, and some are just tall tales. I miss sitting on Grandma's lap and hearing of Raw Head and Bloody Bones.....

....subtitled-"Sunny meets the weedeater".....

 

[Sundrop]

....subtitled-"Sunny meets the weedeater".....

You know me so well!

 

[Neesy]

Canavan's Backyard by Joseph Payne Brennan
The Finnegan by Ray Bradbury
Rio Grande Gothic by David Morrell
Crouch End by Stephen King
Out There in the Darkness by Ed Gorman

Really,there are just too many to pick,I almost prefer the short story horror or suspense to full length novels..there are a million great stories out there..

Crouch End was a good one!

 

[Desert Kris]

I really liked a Solomon Kane story of Robert E. Howard's, called The Moon of Skulls I think. It tends not to register on many peoples radar, I guess, and that's okay. I liked it because it made me think of Indiana Jones.

There are so many Conan stories that are great, too, I'll throw out The Scarlette Citadel, a fantasy epic told in a very small page count with a bona fide dungeon crawl in the purest sense.

I've liked a lot of Lovecraft's work, Colour out of Space is one of my favorites (I recall really liking the Dunwich Horror greatly, too).

Haven't read a lot of Clark Ashton Smith...yet.

 

[muskrat]

What? No love for Otis Adelbert Kline?

Heh heh. But nah, this is a thread after my own heart, so it is. If it weren't for the pulps, cats, we wouldnt even be here.

Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.

--Stephen King

 

[CYRUS]

What? No love for Otis Adelbert Kline?

Heh heh. But nah, this is a thread after my own heart, so it is. If it weren't for the pulps, cats, we wouldnt even be here.

Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.

--Stephen King

Robert E Howard was one of the writer that got me interes

I really liked a Solomon Kane story of Robert E. Howard's, called The Moon of Skulls I think. It tends not to register on many peoples radar, I guess, and that's okay. I liked it because it made me think of Indiana Jones.

There are so many Conan stories that are great, too, I'll throw out The Scarlette Citadel, a fantasy epic told in a very small page count with a bona fide dungeon crawl in the purest sense.

I've liked a lot of Lovecraft's work, Colour out of Space is one of my favorites (I recall really liking the Dunwich Horror greatly, too).

Haven't read a lot of Clark Ashton Smith...yet.

My favorite non Conan Howard Story is Kings of the Night , In this story the seemingly ageless ancient Pictish sorcerer Gonar has summoned King dead 100,000 to time Bran Mak Morn to aid him in his war against the Roman. This a magnificent story , in it you Bran Mac Morn, King Kull and Cormac Art all in one story. This is a terrific story ! There was Graphic novel adaptation of this particular story.