This volume collects critical essays that provide a broader understanding of the magazine Weird Tales and its authors, artists, readers, and editorial practices, as well as the larger impact that the periodical had on popular culture and genre fiction. In particular, these essays explain why Weird Tales deserved its subtitle "The Unique Magazine" and why works by some of its authors have endured.
This volume collects critical essays that provide a broader understanding of the magazine Weird Tales and its authors, artists, readers, and editorial practices, as well as the larger impact that the periodical had on popular culture and genre fiction. In particular, these essays explain why Weird Tales deserved its subtitle "The Unique Magazine" and why works by some of its authors have endured.
Justin Everett is associate professor and Director of Writing Programs at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and the coauthor of Dynamic Argument (2012). Everett created the Pulp Studies area for the Popular Culture Association and serves as its co-chair. Jeffrey Shanks is an archaeologist with the National Park Service whose research interests include the use of anthropological and sociological themes in early 20th century pulp fiction. He has authored a number of popular and scholarly articles on Robert E. Howard, including recent essays in Conan Meets the Academy (2012), Pulp Fiction of the 20s and 30s (2013), and Undead in the West II (Scarecrow Press, 2013).
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Introduction: Weird Tales-Discourse Community and Genre Nexus (Justin Everett and Jeffrey Shanks) PART I: THE UNIQUE MAGAZINE: WEIRD TALES, MODERNISM, AND GENRE FORMATION Chapter 1: "Something that swayed as if in unison": The Artistic Authenticity of Weird Tales in the Interwar Periodical Culture of Modernism - Jason Ray Carney Chapter 2: Weird Modernism: Literary Modernism in the First Decade of Weird Tales - Jonas Prida Chapter 3: "Against the Complacency of an Orthodox Sun-Dweller": The Lovecraft Circle and the "Weird Class" - Daniel Nyikos Chapter 4: Strange Collaborations: Shared Authorship and Weird Tales - Nicole Emmelhainz Chapter 5: Gothic to Cosmic: Sword and Sorcery Fiction in Weird Tales - Morgan Holmes II. EICH-PI-EL AND TWO-GUN BOB: LOVECRAFT AND HOWARD IN WEIRD TALES Chapter 6: A Nameless Horror: Madness and Metamorphosis in H.P. Lovecraft and Post-modernism - Clancy Smith Chapter 7: Great Phallic Monoliths: Lovecraft and Sexuality - Bobby Derie Chapter 8: Evolutionary Otherness: An
Introduction: Weird Tales-Discourse Community and Genre Nexus (Justin Everett and Jeffrey Shanks) PART I: THE UNIQUE MAGAZINE: WEIRD TALES, MODERNISM, AND GENRE FORMATION Chapter 1: "Something that swayed as if in unison": The Artistic Authenticity of Weird Tales in the Interwar Periodical Culture of Modernism - Jason Ray Carney Chapter 2: Weird Modernism: Literary Modernism in the First Decade of Weird Tales - Jonas Prida Chapter 3: "Against the Complacency of an Orthodox Sun-Dweller": The Lovecraft Circle and the "Weird Class" - Daniel Nyikos Chapter 4: Strange Collaborations: Shared Authorship and Weird Tales - Nicole Emmelhainz Chapter 5: Gothic to Cosmic: Sword and Sorcery Fiction in Weird Tales - Morgan Holmes II. EICH-PI-EL AND TWO-GUN BOB: LOVECRAFT AND HOWARD IN WEIRD TALES Chapter 6: A Nameless Horror: Madness and Metamorphosis in H.P. Lovecraft and Post-modernism - Clancy Smith Chapter 7: Great Phallic Monoliths: Lovecraft and Sexuality - Bobby Derie Chapter 8: Evolutionary Otherness: An
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