* 2007: The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer

* Maberry, Jonathan and Kramer, David F. The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange and Downright Bizarre.

The third of what amounts to a critical trilogy on the weird tale, The Evolution of the Weird Tale ( 2004 ), includes essays on Dennis Etchison, L. P. Hartley, Les Daniels, E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, David J. Schow, Robert Bloch, L. P. Davies, Edward Lucas White, Rod Serling, Poppy Z. Brite and others.

People who make appearances in the film include: Mary Crosby, of the nighttime soap opera Dallas ; character actors Clu Gulager and Doug McClure ; footballer Lyle Alzado ; ' 60s icon Connie Stevens ; Soul Train host Don Cornelius ; singer Courtney Love ; original " Human Beat-Box " Doug E. Fresh ; ska-punk band Fishbone ( who also performs the incidental score ) as " Ranchbone "; Lords of the New Church singer Stiv Bators ; Ted Nugent ; Weird Al Yankovic ; and Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, in a cameo as an F. B. I.

* The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales ( fiction published under H. F. Heard, 1944 )

A full description of each tale in the collection appears in the entry on Snow in E. F. Bleiler's Guide to Supernatural Fiction Snow also published several letters in the letters column of Weird Tales over the years.

In 1985, Downey had his breakthrough when he played James Spader's sidekick in Tuff Turf and then a bully in John Hughes ' Weird Science.

They are far more results-oriented than the Knights, enforcing demerit policies when Weird Pete is behind the GM screen ( often worked off by unpaid labor behind Weird Pete's counter ), and holding extensive post-mortems on their game sessions, to see where things could have been done better ( usually by the members of the group not slaughtering one another's characters for minor infractions of local " rules ", to vent a real-life grudge, or to gain experience points needed to advance their own character a level ( or two )).

) Weird Pete also devised a " demerit " system for penalizing players when he is GMing — which can be worked off with time running the front counter of the " Games Pit ".

Bach repeatedly won the Best Comedy Album Grammy from 1990 to 1993, the category was changed to Best Spoken Comedy Album ; when Best Comedy Album was reinstated in 2004, " Weird Al " Yankovic won for Poodle Hat.

( e. g. " Weird Al " Yankovic appearing on The Simpsons, when he himself sings songs that reference The Simpsons ).

* The Lord Weird Slough Feg-Ancient, rotting leader of the Drunes and the original Horned God who refused to die when his seven year reign was over.

The sole editor for Chronicles awards was Andrew I. Porter, while David Pringle earned Interzones, Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal were the editors for Weird Taless victory, David Langford was the editor when Ansible was awarded, and Clarkesworld Magazines winning year was under Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, and Cheryl Morgan.

Campbell wanted to publish a fantasy magazine with more finesse and humor than Weird Tales, and put his plans into action when Eric Frank Russell sent him the manuscript of his novel Sinister Barrier, about aliens who own the human race.

In 1986, the lyric " You better squeeze all the Charmin you can when Mr. Whipple's not around " was included in the " Weird Al " Yankovic song " Dare to Be Stupid ".

Yet this same story became his first professional sale when editor Farnsworth Wright bought it and published it in Weird Tales ( Nov 1927 ).

At this time, when Wellman was living in New York, Weird Tales published numerous stories based on three of his most famous characters.

The pact is facilitated by the Weird Sisters, with several side effects: pain felt by one is shared with the other when in close proximity, and both are immortal unless one is simultaneously killed by the other ( as long as one of them is still alive, the other cannot be killed through any other means ).

Expanded to anything-low when Weird Charlie from Orange introduced the concept of doubles low at a Mo Ranch retreat.

The story was rejected by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright when Derleth surreptitiously submitted it for publication in 1933.

Hex continued as the star of the comic when it changed its name to Weird Western Tales with issue # 12 ( July 1972 ), and he continued into issue # 38 ( Feb. 1977 ) of the 59-issue series.

" According to Gardner Dozois, however, the VanderMeers ' anthology " ultimately left me just as confused as to what exactly The New Weird consisted of when I went out as I'd been when I went in.

The 1966 comedy They're a Weird Mob, starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Clare Dunne was a rare hit of the period which also documented something of the changing face of Australian society: telling the story of a newly arrived Italian immigrant who, working as a labourer in Sydney, becomes mates with his co-workers, despite some difficulties with Australian slang and culture.

The Elohim have a concept which appears to do duty for both these beliefs: it is impossible to determine whether the sound used for this is " Worm ", " Word " or " Weird ", as it comes out in a blurred form sounding something like " Würd ".

In the 1989 Weird Al Yankovic film UHF, the line occurs in a spoof of Raul's Wild Kingdom, during the scene where Raul ( Trinidad Silva ) receives his animal delivery.

" The Pool of the Black One ," which appeared in Weird Tales magazine the month after " The Slithering Shadow ," is a piratical adventure story and occurs in the Western Sea of the Hyborian Age.

As a result, he withdrew from the scene, marking the end of Weird Tales Golden Age.

The book publisher Berkley in 1977 issued three volumes using the earliest published form of the texts from Weird Tales, but these failed to displace the edited versions.

* Weird Tales from Northern Seas

Headline about the " Weird babel of tongues " and other behavior at Azusa Street, from a 1906 Los Angeles Times newspaper.

Pulp magazine s such as Weird Tales reprinted and popularized Gothic horror from the prior century.

In America pulp magazines such as Weird Tales reprinted classic Gothic horror tales from the previous century, by such authors as Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton and printed new stories by modern authors featuring both traditional and new horrors.

While his stories appeared in the pages of prominent pulp magazines such as Weird Tales ( eliciting letters of outrage as often as letters of praise from regular readers of the magazines ), not many people knew his name.

* Hellboy: Toy Soldier from Hellboy: Weird Tales Issue # 8

After a rejection notice from the pulp magazine Weird Tales, Bradbury submitted to magazines.

The South Korean western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird ( 2008 ) is inspired by the film, with much of its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film.

", an episode in a 1972 comic book from Weird Mystery Tales

The genre has been defined, strongly, by the work of Robert E. Howard, particularly his tales of Conan the Barbarian and Kull of Atlantis, mostly in Weird Tales from 1932 and 1929 respectively.

In the movie The Weird Man by the Shaw Brothers Sun Quan is shown at the end of film and Sun Ce names him successor before he died from his injuries sustained by Xu Gong and Yu Ji's spirit.

The raft of material left behind eventually emerged, firstly on CD as I May Be Hungry, But I Sure Ain't Weird and later on vinyl, implemented by John French, as It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper ( which has two tracks that are missing from the former release ).

Many of " Weird Al " Yankovic's original songs are pastiches: for example, " Dare to Be Stupid " is a Devo pastiche, and " Bob " from the album Poodle Hat is a pastiche of Bob Dylan.

Four short horror novels from the early pages of Weird Tales magazine.

A two-page story, however, written by Roger McKenzie and titled " Slowly, painfully, you dig your way from the cold, choking debris ...", appears in Weird War Tales No. 68 ( Oct. 1978 ).

The Lord Weird Slough Feg from Pennsylvania, United States also had an early formation dating back to 1990.

These included six issues of The Vault of Horror ( August 1990-June 1991 ), six issues of Tales from the Crypt ( July 1990-May 1991 ), four issues of Weird Science ( September 1990-March 1991 ), and two issues of The Haunt of Fear ( May / July 1991 ).

This took the The Haunt of Fear from The Vault of Horror and replaced it with Weird Fantasy.

* Vincent Starrett wrote a poem called " Cordelia's Song from The King in Yellow ", which was published in the April 1938 issue of Weird Tales.

His comic books, including Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, Shock SuspenStories, Weird Science and Two-Fisted Tales, featured stories with content above the level of the typical comic.

The clown and recent successful attempts from residents to save it from demolition have been featured in the pages of Weird NJ magazine, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the Kevin Smith-directed film Clerks II.

Adjectival use develops in the 15th century, in the sense " having the power to control fate ", originally in the name of the Weird Sisters, i. e. the classical Fates, in the Elizabethan period detached from their classical background as fays, and most notably appearing as the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth.