IN EARLY 2023, CENTIPEDE PRESS, FAMOUS FOR ITS LUXURY SPECIAL EDITIONS OF HORROR CLASSICS, IS releasing a monumental 700-page anthology The Best of Weird Tales, vol. 1. It is edited by Darrell Schweitzer, writer, editor, and critic who co-edited Weird Tales’ new incarnation (1988-2007), which earned him and his editorial colleagues the 1992 World Fantasy Award.
Centipede will publish three volumes in total, devoted to 1920s, 1930s, and one for the 1940s and 1950s. Schweitzer is also collaborating with John Betancourt, another ex-WT editor and effectively the founder of the revived Weird Tales, on a series of anthologies by the year: The Best of Weird Tales: 1924 is now in progress at Wildside Press. In his selection of stories, Schweitzer is aiming to strike a balance between the historically essential…