Whitechapel - Weird Tales Sold Fri, 24 May 2013 04:15:57 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307255#Comment_307255 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307255#Comment_307255 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:16:45 -0700 Will Ellwood Ann VanderMeer on No Longer Editing Weird Tales.

Copy of announcement on Jeff Vandermeer's site: Ann VanderMeer on No Longer Editing Weird Tales

Warren's opinion: Goodnight, Then, Weird Tales.

Anyone got an opinion?

I don't think it's a good move. But the economics around short fiction magazines always desperate and businesses aren't charities, so I suspect the right offer was made. I know I'm on the record as having said that the new New Worlds is going to be an exercise in nostalgia and with Ann gone at Weird Tales this magazine is probably going to be as well, as ignoring any problems with Ann's tenure as editor of Weird Tales, it was still a progressive magazine. ]]> Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307261#Comment_307261 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307261#Comment_307261 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:00:26 -0700 RenThing
While I'm not ready to sound the bells on the "death" of Weird Tales, I am sad to see Anne go (although I can't argue with Warren's point about first issue being Cthulhu-themed as not particularly forward thinking). ]]> Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307263#Comment_307263 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307263#Comment_307263 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:03:55 -0700 Richard Pace
That aside, there is a deep market for visuals for this sort of material, so it may become less forward-looking/seeking in it's prose but become a prettier item to own.

~R ]]> Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307266#Comment_307266 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307266#Comment_307266 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:13:01 -0700 Will Ellwood
Nostalgia acts don't traditionally have staying power.


I don't know this years Hugo awards seem to show again in the SF community, especially a lot of the American community, that's what's keeping people there. And unless magazines stop catering to that sector it's only going to get more intense. Like comics, SF has a real problem with understanding how to be accessible. ]]> Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307300#Comment_307300 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307300#Comment_307300 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:48:33 -0700 James Puckett Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307384#Comment_307384 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307384#Comment_307384 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:38 -0700 ravnos Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307395#Comment_307395 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307395#Comment_307395 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:01:15 -0700 RenThing
Well, with a new editor you'll be having a new creative focus. Apex Magazine used to be strictly sci-fi/horror until they got Cat Valente to be their head editor and the guidelines were broadened. I just say wait and see. ]]> Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307504#Comment_307504 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307504#Comment_307504 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:53:04 -0700 KPatrickGlover Weird Tales Sold http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307518#Comment_307518 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10175&Focus=307518#Comment_307518 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:13:46 -0700 Will Ellwood