Hey weirdos! Matt Wall and B. L. Koller are joined by author Erik Bergstrom to talk some Poe and his story from Weird Mask issue 1, Wracked, East of Salem! You can find Erik on his website www.erikbergstromwriting.com http://www.creepersincast.com/weirdmask/pflpnew2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Continue Reading
That’s right weirdos! We got a new race and it starts…NOW! As heard on the latest episode of the PulpFicLitPod, we pulled things out of a hat and have a new writing challenge! It has to take place in a school or varsity setting. It has to be an alternative… Continue Reading
III They found him the first time, mouthing meaningless phrases concerning an amoeba—one of the tiny forms of protoplasmic life he was known to have studied. Also he leaped into a hysteria of self-accusation. He had murdered two innocent people! The tragedy was his crime. He had drowned them in… Continue Reading
II I wasted weeks of time first, interviewing officials of the police department at Mobile, the town marshals and county sheriffs of Washington and Mobile counties, and officials of the psychopathic hospital from which Cranmer made his escape. In substance the story was one of baseless homicidal mania. Cranmer the… Continue Reading
Ooze by Anthony M. Rud First published in Weird Tales Volume 1 Issue 1 in March 1923 I In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajans—that queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth century—stands… Continue Reading
Hello there, weirdos! Matt Wall here. I am joined by my wife Zoe as we talk about the cover, the table of contents and some of the ads that appear in the first issue ever of Weird Tales from 1923! Enjoy! http://www.creepersincast.com/weirdmask/WTV1I1P1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Continue Reading
That’s right Weirdos! We have shirts! The shirt is a double sided. The iconic first WM cover on the front and the website on the back! Show your love of the weird and your support of classic writers as well as the writers of today, by picking one of these… Continue Reading
Hey there weirdos! Welcome to the new and improved (once again) Pulpficlitpod! Today I am joined by WM contributor, B. L. Koller and we talk about Robert E. Howard’s Conan tale The Slithering Shadow aka Xuthal at Dusk and then talk about The Ben Fitts story Where I Keep My… Continue Reading
WM is looking for weird stories that revolve around music in some way. Any genre. 1k-3k words. contributor copy as payment. Send submissions, unformatted in the body of the email, to: weird mask zine at gmail dot com DEADLINE: July 28th! Continue Reading
You can get your weird little hands on the our first anniversary issue now! Get it here! Issue 19 has all of this amazing content: Haunted Hotel By Patrick J Wynn The Bucket List By Matt Wall Weird Mask Inc.: Moon Wars By Peter Clark Fat Dracula by Carlton Herzog… Continue Reading
