Weird Tales / 诡丽幻谭

Weird Tales / 诡丽幻谭 is the pulp-magazine context discussed in 73.虚境奇谭：恐怖+幽默=最好的克苏鲁. The episode uses it to show that early weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos / 克苏鲁神话 stories were shaped by magazine submission, rejection, title changes, editor expectations, and market demands as well as by solitary imagination.

The episode’s clearest case is 《深谷住民》. The hosts say Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯 initially had the story rejected by editor Wright, then later added a more “scientific” motivation for another magazine version and saw atmospheric material reduced. 《七咒赋》 is also described through rejection reasons that reveal pulp expectations around action, romance, and triumph.

Key Claims

• The magazine setting makes Open Shared Mythos social and material rather than purely imaginative.
• Editorial constraints affected title, motivation, atmosphere, and plot expectation.
• Rejection reasons help explain why Smith’s stories can feel strange beside more conventional adventure formulas.
• The pulp-magazine layer connects cosmic dread to ordinary publication infrastructure.

Connections

• Clark Ashton Smith / C.A.史密斯, H. P. Lovecraft / 洛夫克拉夫特, and August Derleth / 阿古斯特·德雷斯 - writers and system-builders associated with the wider field.
• 《深谷住民》 and 《七咒赋》 - story cases tied to submission and editorial context.
• Weird Fiction, Cthulhu Mythos / 克苏鲁神话, and Open Shared Mythos - concepts that Weird Tales helps make concrete.