The Weird Tales Story [Paperback]

Robert Weinberg (Author), E. Hoffmann Price (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Borgo Press (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587151014
• ISBN-13: 978-1587151019
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,233,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I was born on August 29, 1946, making me one of the famous "baby boomer" generation. I attended Hillside High School in New Jersey, then got my B.S. degree in mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology. I later obtained by M.S. in mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where I taught math for two years. I was working on my Ph.D. in Number Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago when I met my (future) wife Phyllis in 1972. We were married in 1973 and I left college to start my own business. I ran three very successful corporations after leaving college and did some writing on the side. When I was 40, I decided I wanted to concentrate more on writing fiction, which I had done in college but had abandoned afterwards. So I started writing novels in 1986. My first book, THE DEVIL'S AUCTION, was published in 1998 and I've written another 15 novels since then. I'm probably best known as the author of a popular trilogy I wrote for White Wolf Games entitled THE MASQUERADE OF THE RED DEATH. These three novels have been published in a number of different languages (including French, German, Spanish and Hungarian) and I've gotten well over 1,000 fan letters about them since they first appeared.

I also have written 17 non-fiction books, many of them in the pop-science field with my friend, Lois H. Gresh. And, in my spare time, I've edited around 150 anthologies. I like to keep busy!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful resource and an interesting read, May 16, 2011

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Gregory (Clinton, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This book turned out to be even more fun that I had anticipated. I had previously read several books/chapters by Robert Weinberg and so I expected that the book would be of high quality, and I was not disappointed. Reading the book has led me to purchase a substantial number of other books so that I could read additional Weird Tales stories. Definitely a worthwhile investment!

4.0 out of 5 stars an informative appreciation of a unique pulp, October 11, 2011

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Nicholas B. Hilligoss (Oakleigh, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews
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While this book is a good account of the publication of the classic Weird Tales magazine from 1923 to 1954, buyers should be aware that it was written in the late 1970's and is essentially a reprint. That is no bad thing - many of the contributing writers and some illustrators were still around and able to contribute their own personal accounts. Where it loses a star is, like the pulp magazine itself, in the poor quality of the printing. It reproduces many of the individual covers inside, but they are very small - 3 covers easily fit across the bottom of a page - and in black and white. That is entirely understandable, colour printing is expensive, but the dpi resolution is so very low - the result is that when reading about a particular cover design, it's impossible to see more than a blurry approximation of the general layout. The only place there is colour, at a reasonable resolution, is on the cover. They really should have made the most of that, but the back cover is a blank glossy black, and if you look on the front, you'll see one cover (described in the text as one of the poorer efforts) reproduced twice in the lower right. There are reasonable images of most of these covers on the web if you google, so I am seriously considering printing them out, and pasting them over the murky versions in the book. Reproductions of Interior illustrations fare much better, since they were always black and white, and had to cope with being printed on pulp paper.
An updated and improved edition would be very much appreciated. If it's still possible, I'd like to see every cover of every issue, small but in colour. The reputation of some of the writers, especially H P Lovecraft, has grown even further since 1977 and there is no doubt more that can be said. but in the meantime, this is all there is, and worth buying.