Pulp Archive: Weird Horror

The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.--Hp Lovecraft on Weird HorrorThis genre of horror first appeared in early twentieth-century pulp magazines such as Weird Tales and Strange Tales. Writers including Seabury Quinn, William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, Clark Ashton Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft pioneered its techniques, themes, and narrative structures, many of which continue to influence horror and speculative fiction today. Weird Horror Podcast restores and presents these long-neglected w