Words: A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish Words ( New York: Delacorte ).

The New Weird movement and the genre of slipstream fiction occupies a space similar to that of the New Wave movement, in relationship to the mainstream of science fiction and fantasy.

* Weird New Jersey

* On April 4, 2003, Dad's Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta was scheduled to debut a new play, Archie's Weird Fantasy, which depicted Riverdale's most famous resident coming out of the closet and moving to New York.

Amadeus is one of the main characters in the New Weird novel La luce di Orione ( 2007 ) by Valerio Evangelisti.

He directed and / or scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Beethoven, Uncle Buck, Career Opportunities, 101 Dalmatians, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Home Alone 3.

The Clifton " Gates of Hell " are featured in Weird New Jersey.

She also appeared on the New Archies cartoon and tie-in comic book series, as well as Archie's Weird Mysteries.

* Mike Ashley, " Weird Tales ", in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute and John Grant, eds., New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997.

* Weird NJ: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets by Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, Barnes & Noble ISBN 0-7607-3979-X

* Theodore Schick & Lewis Vaughn " How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age " ( 2010 ) ISBN 0-7674-2048-9

He also teaches a lecture class at the New School University called " The Old Weird America: Music as Democratic Speech – from the Commonplace Song to Bob Dylan.

* Weird New Jersey

Plop !, " The New Magazine of Weird Humor!

Although Lovecraft was one of the few early 20th-century writers to describe his work as " weird fiction ," the term has enjoyed a contemporary revival in New Weird fiction.

An earlier anthology by the same editors, The New Weird ( ISBN 978-1892391551 ), focuses on the more recent New Weird.

Forbidden Planet was the third major comics store in London eventually replacing what had been the leading shop, Derek Stokes's Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, which had started in 1969, and coming after Frank and Joan Dobson's Weird Fantasy in New Cross.

* Weird War Tales # 3: " New Toys " ( with Grant Morrison, Vertigo, 1997 )

Weird NJ ( WNJ ) is the title of a semi-annual magazine and two paranormal travel guides that chronicle local legends, hauntings, ghost stories, folklore and anything considered " weird " in the U. S. state of New Jersey.

That led to a series of Weird guides for other states and areas, including Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, California and New England, and a TV series, Weird U. S., on the History Channel.

Weird NJ has influenced similar groups in New Jersey and around the United States.

According to Weird New Jersey, these rumors have drawn more visitors to the area, to the annoyance of residents, who have in the past gone so far as to smear the pole holding the street sign ( pictured ) at the road ’ s southern end with grease or oil to prevent theft ( Other signs along the road are in vertical type on poles and thus harder to remove and less desirable to display ).

Weird New Jersey suggests several theories for the road's macabre name.

According to Weird New Jersey, ghosts or other supernatural phenomena are said to have been reported at points along the road.

It has been featured in the local New Jersey magazine Weird NJ, as well as on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in a Kevin Smith short.

Joly also writes a weekly column on the " Weird World of Sport " for The Independent Sports supplement on Mondays.

Weird NJ writes that visitors have told them that no matter what time of night they visit the lake at, the sky above it always seems as bright as if it were still twilight and several have reported ghosts in the area, especially in a deserted old cabin across the lake from the road, supposedly victims of the murders once believed to have given the road its name.

He also created and writes the Desperadoes series of Weird West-style comic books and Graveslingers.

The official proclamation called him " an icon in the Keep Austin Weird scene " who provided " an indelible image " in the memories of many Austin visitors and tourists over the years.

Several past visitors have written to Weird NJ telling of strange occurrences in or near the castle site, such as people going into seizures and bruises appearing on their bodies afterwards, or having strange, disturbing visions.

Stile Project, which won a Webby Award in 2000 for Weird site and was a People's Voice winner, evolved into a website with a lot of pornographic and extreme material ; Wired referred to the website as a " shock site " in a 2001 article.

Stile Project won Webby Awards in 2000 for Weird site and People's Voice winner.

* Scared Weird Little Guys Official site, with downloadable examples

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

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

Penguin Classics has at present issued three volumes of Lovecraft's works: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, and most recently The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories.

However, since April 1926 at the latest, Lovecraft had reserved all second printing rights to stories published in Weird Tales.

Hence, Weird Tales may only have owned the rights to at most six of Lovecraft's tales.

Films such as Class ( film ), The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mannequin ( 1987 film ), Porky's, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire ( film ), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Valley Girl were popular teen comedies of the era and launched the careers of several major celebrities such as: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage.

* Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff-Hosted by Gonzo and Camilla at Gonzo's trailer home, which Gonzo tries to pass off as a mansion, with guest stars John Cleese, Jean Stapleton, Dom DeLuise, Julie Andrews, Vincent Price, and Madeline Kahn.

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.

" Discovery " by Three Weird Sisters hints at a darker Tam Lin with ulterior motives for his seduction of the girl.

They included the episodes: Shake, Rattle and Goof, Close Encounters of the Weird Mime, Slightly Dinghy, Wrecks, Lies and Videotape, Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp and Tub Be or Not Tub Be.

Past projects have included the experimental performance troupe Gaga, several ECC performances at the Columbus Avant Garage film festival, and a release with the Weird Love Makers.

* Timely Comics ' Marvel Mystery Comics with the Human torch (# 92, June 1949 ), Sub-Mariner Comics (# 32, June 1949 ), and Captain America Comics ( then Captain America's Weird Tales ) at issue # 75 ( February 1950 ); and a transformation to the Atlas Comics logo on comics cover-dated November 1951.

The lead single, " So Weird ", was released to radio at the end of October 2006 ; however, a video was not produced and the single failed to receive significant radio play.

The river flows north through rugged sandstone gorges until it reaches the urban environment beginning at Glenfield and then travels to the Liverpool Weird Place where it joins with the estuarine catchment.

Bob currently works for Weird Pete at the till, getting paid in gaming stock each week, because Weird Pete cannot afford to pay him in actual money.

Walt liked this and wanted to make the proclaimed " Museum of the Weird " a restaurant side to the now named Haunted Mansion, similar to the Blue Bayou at Pirates of the Caribbean.

In " Isle Thing ", " Weird Al " Yankovic's parody of the Tone Loc song " Wild Thing ", he sings, " Met this fine young thing / at the local Circle K / She made a date for half-past eight / So I said ' What the hey?

In 1998 Dino Ignacio, Wout J Reinders and Jasper Hulshoff Pol accepted the Webby Award and the People's Voice Award for Best Weird Website at the Palace of Fine Arts auditorium in San Francisco.

Jacobi had read Derleth's stories in Weird Tales and his Solar Pons stories in Dragnet and asked to be introduced ; they met for an evening at the Rainbow Cafe.

* Archie's Weird Mysteries at Cookie Jar Entertainment

* Archie's Weird Mysteries at Epguides