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Summary: NOTHING RECEIVED
Comment: I ordered a subscription for my brother back in November forChristmas and he got a notice saying that he should receive his first magazine sometime in march. It is now mid-July and he has yet to receive anything. Today I get an email from amazon saying "we hope you are enjoying your subscription-don't let it expire"!!! I've emailed amazon several times and keep getting "we will forward your email to "wierd tales" but I haven't gotten anykind of response. Very dissappointing and I will NEVER order any magazine subscriptions from amazon again.
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Summary: The Great Tradition Continues
Comment: When WEIRD TALES was revived around 1988, I was sorely disappointed in the direction the editorial staff had taken. It was too "progressive" and not enough like the old WT so many of us afficionados knew and loved. Lin Carter had a great thing going for the four paperback issues he came out with under the Zebra imprint in the early 1980's. Unfortunately, he was not allowed to continue. His idea was to keep the FLAVOR of the old WEIRD TALES alive, and he did it very well.
Then several years later along comes the the Schweitzer/Scithers/Betancourt WT, and my goodness it was sad to see the aura gone. Gradually, though, WT has seemed to come along and put itself somewhat more in the direction of the "old-fashioned" 'zine it was in its heyday (1920's-1930's), although the editor Darrell Schweitzer would probably disagree with this observation. Anyway, WT sports great covers now, good stories, and good book reviews, and interesting editorials. I must say I miss S.T. Joshi's always very entertaining book reviews, but we can't have everything. Scott Connors' forthcoming reviews will surely entertain, as do Douglas Winter's. All fantasy lovers should buy this magazine to support the cause of fantastic literature, especially the dark fantastic; there are so few outlets of this kind now that WHISPERS and WEIRDBOOK, not to mention the long gone FORGOTTEN FANTASY, are no longer published. Good job, Mr. Schweitzer, whether you realize it or not, your magazine has become a more cozy, old-style, aesthetically pleasing magazine, more in the true tradition of the original WEIRD TALES, thanks in no small part to the wonderful covers that have graced it in the last 13 or 14 years.
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