{"id":3625,"date":"2014-04-24T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2014-04-24T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:32:15","slug":"a-weird-weird-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2014\/04\/24\/a-weird-weird-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"A weird ‘Weird Tales’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was on Vimeo searching for something and happened to notice the Weird Tales<\/a><\/em> logo leaping out at me from one of the video thumbnails. So I had to click it.<\/p>\n

It was a Margaret Brundidge<\/a><\/strong> cover (of course) from the May 1936 number. The cover teases to a Doctor Satan<\/a><\/strong> novelette, “The Devil’s Double,” by Paul Ernst<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I had to watch the video to see how Weird Tales<\/em> figured in.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a music video for the song “Low Shoulder<\/a>” by Toro y Moi<\/strong> (the stage name for Chazwick Bradley Bundick<\/strong>). The song has a completely different vibe than the video, which takes a turn toward the pseudo-occult just after the cover of Weird Tales<\/em> shows up.<\/p>\n

But something didn’t quite look right. So I emailed Jeff Shanks<\/a><\/strong> to confirm my suspicions. His comment was: “Looks like whoever did it didn’t know the difference between a pulp and a comic.”<\/p>\n

The Weird Tales<\/em> in the video was thin and saddle stitched, with staples down the spine. There was no traditional squared spine featuring the magazine title that you normally see on perfect-bound pulps. It was a mockup.<\/p>\n

(The ad on the back for “The NEW way to enjoy SPORTS Movies, Plays, Television” sort of tipped me off, too. This was supposed to be from 1936 after all.)<\/p>\n

Clearly the mocked-up magazine was used to foretell the dark story ahead in the video.<\/p>\n

You never know where pulps (or fake pulps<\/a>) might turn up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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