Why You'll Love This
One of horror's oldest magazines just crossed into its second century — and it brought Hellboy, Ramsey Campbell, and cosmic dread along for the ride.
- Great if you want: a curated anthology of cosmic horror from genre heavyweights
- The experience: unsettling and varied — each story resets the dread differently
- The writing: Maberry assembles voices with distinct tones, not a uniform house style
- Skip if: anthology unevenness frustrates you — quality shifts story to story
About This Book
Weird Tales Magazine No. 367 marks the opening of a second century for one of the strangest and most storied publications in genre fiction, and editor Jonathan Maberry has made sure the occasion counts. This issue gathers cosmic horror in its many forms — from Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's new Hellboy story to unsettling contributions by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, and Paul Cornell — building a collection designed to quietly loosen your grip on the rational world. The stakes here aren't survival or spectacle; they're the more intimate terror of realizing the universe doesn't operate on human terms.
What makes this particular issue worth sitting with is how it balances fiction against criticism and cultural excavation. Essays by Nicholas Diak and F. Paul Wilson dig into the philosophical machinery behind cosmic and Abrahamic horror, giving readers a framework that makes the surrounding stories hit harder. The result isn't a grab-bag anthology but something closer to a curated argument — each piece in conversation with the others, fiction and nonfiction pressing against the same unnerving questions from different angles. It rewards readers who want their genre fiction to do more than scare them.
