365 Days of Weird

Horror, Gothic, Dark Fantasy and Weird Literature- All year long.

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January 1947 issue of Eerie Comics is the first out-and-out horror comic book and is credited with establishing the genre of horror comics.

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Eris was discovered by the team of Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz on January 5, 2005, from images taken on October 21, 2003.

Eris is the most massive and second-largest dwarf planet known in the Solar System, the ninth most massive object directly orbiting the Sun, and the 16th most massive object in our solar system.

Eris was named after the goddess of strife, discord, contention, and rivalry. She was often portrayed, more specifically, as the daimona of the strife of war, haunting the battlefield and delighting in human bloodshed.

Because of Eris' disagreeable nature, she was the only goddess not to be invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. When she turned up anyway and was refused admittance, she raged and threw a golden apple amongst the goddesses inscribed "To the fairest." Three laid claim to it--Hera, Aphrodite and Athena--and in their rivalry brought about the events leading up to the Trojan War.

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Ramsey Campbell, born on January 4, 1946 in Liverpool, England is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field

It has been written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today”, and he has been described as "perhaps the finest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition. Future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of his generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood.

Selected literary awards

·       1976 The Doll Who Ate His Mother, World Fantasy Award nominee, Best Novel

·       1978 "The Chimney", World Fantasy Award winner, Best Short Story

·       1978 "In The Bag", British Fantasy Award winner, Best Short Story

·       1980 The Parasite, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel

·       1980 "Mackintosh Willy", World Fantasy Award winner, Best Short Story 

·       1981 To Wake the Dead (later, the Parasite), British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel

·       1982 The Nameless, World Fantasy Award nominee, Best Novel

·       1985 Incarnate, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel

·       1988 The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel

·       1989 The Influence, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel, and Premios Gigamesh, 1994 (for Spanish translation, Ultratumba)

·       1989 Ancient Images, Children of the Night Award winner, Best Novel

·       1991 Midnight Sun, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel

·       1991 Best New Horror (co-edited with Stephen Jones), British Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award winner, Best Anthology or Collection

·       1992 The Count of Eleven, British Fantasy Award nominee

·       1994 Alone with the Horrors, Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America winner, Best Collection; World Fantasy Award winner, Best Collection

·       1994 The Long Lost, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Novel

·       1994 Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Award for Literature

·       1995 Premio alla Carriera a Ramsey Campbell (Prize for the Career of Ramsey Campbell), Fantafestival, Rome

·       1998 The House on Nazareth Hill, International Horror Guild winner, Best Novel; British Fantasy Award nominee, Best Novel

·       1999 Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia

·       1999 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association

·       1999 Ghosts and Grisly Things, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Collection

·       2001 Silent Children, British Fantasy Award nominee, Best Novel

·       2002 Ramsey Campbell, Probably, International Horror Guild, Best Non-Fiction, and Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, and British Fantasy Award, Best Collection

·       2003 Told by the Dead, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Collection

·       2003 The Darkest Part of the Woods, British Fantasy award nominee, Best Novel

·       2006 Howie Award of the H P Lovecraft Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement

·       2006 Secret Story, British Fantasy Award nominee, Best Novel

·       2007 Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild

·       2008 The Grin of the Dark, British Fantasy Society winner, Best Novel

·       2009 Thieving Fear, British Fantasy Society nominee, Best Novel

·       2015 Honorary Fellowship of John Moores University, Liverpool, for "outstanding services to literature"

·       2015 Letters to Arkham, British Fantasy Award winner, Best Non-Fiction

·       2015 World Fantasy Award, Life Award

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May the stars be right for you this year!

Happy 2018!

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1.1.18

Vlad the Impaler

The first weird day of the year is dedicated to a true historical character that was the inspiration for Abraham "Bram" Stoker’s 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

In the hierarchy of vampires, Count Dracula is the undisputed apex of the vampiric world: he is the star of countless stories, books, comics, and movies. What would a modern Halloween be without a fanged, tuxedoed vampire costume complete with a cape? With Frankenstein’s Monster and the Wolfman, he completes the 50’s horror movie trinity.

The real Vlad was the third of his name to rule Wallachia. The title Dracul originated from the Order of the Dragon, a monarchal chivalric order of nobility that was founded in the 15th century. Vlad fought the Ottomans throughout his life, murdering and torturing his enemies by the thousands, most notably leaving his victims to hang from a stake that was driven by their bodies. Anecdotes of Vlad Dracula the Impaler’s cruelty became legends that spread throughout Europe, Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

Little is known about the details Vlad’s death, but it is believed he died in battle with the Ottoman Turks early January of 1476 near Bucharest. What is known is that his head was cut off, and brought to Constantinople where it was paraded through the streets as a trophy. However, no one seems to know where Vlad’s body was buried. And this is where it gets weird.

The county folk of the region had strong beliefs in being called the Strigoi, people who walked the earth after their death troubled and vengeful because they had an unfinished earthly business or were not properly buried. The Strigoi could transform into animals, turn invisible, and drank the blood of the living. The fears of a man as cruel and powerful as Vlad the Impaler, Order of the Dragon walking the earth as a Strigoi, must have been a terrifying thought. This horror-fueled legend inspired the creation of the most famous vampire in history: Count Dracula of Transylvania.

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Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It can be said to encompass the ghost story and other tales of the macabre. Weird fiction is distinguished from horror and fantasy in its blending of supernatural, mythical, and even scientific tropes. British authors who have embraced this style have often published their work in mainstream literary magazines even after American pulp magazines became popular. Popular weird fiction writers included Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, and Clark Ashton Smith.

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Welcome to 365 Days of Weird!