Weird Tales 360,  the first issue helmed by new editor Marvin Kaye, is scheduled to ship this Friday, October 19.

It’s an auspicious and entirely appropriate number, I think. After changing direction several times over the last few years, Weird Tales has now turned 360-degrees and returned to where it started: publishing classic weird fiction.

The theme of the first Kaye issue is “The Elder Gods,” and the table of contents makes it clear that he is whole-heartedly embracing the Lovecraftian fiction that helped make Weird Tales one of the most sought-after magazines of the pulp era:

FICTION: THE ELDER GODS

• “The Long Last Night” by Brian Lumley
• “Momma Durtt” by Michael Shea
• “The Darkness at Table Rock Road” by Michael Reyes
• “The Runners Beyond the Wall” by Darrell Schweitzer
• “Drain” by Matthew Jackson
• “The Thing in the Cellar” by William Blake-Smith
• “Found in a Bus Shelter at 3:00 am, Under a Mostly Empty Sky” by Stephen Gracia

FICTION: UNTHEMED

• “To Be a Star” by Parke Godwin
• “The Empty City” by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• “Abbey at the Edge of the Earth” by Collin B. Greenwood
• “Alien Abduction” by M. A. Brines

POETRY

• “Mummified” by Jill Bauman
• “In Shadowy Innsmouth” by Darrell Schweitzer
• “The Country of Fear” by Russell Brickey
• “Country Midnight” by Carole Buggé

DEPARTMENTS

• The Eyrie
• The Den
• Lost in Lovecraft

SPECIAL RAY BRADBURY SECTION

• “The Exiles (Original Version)” by Ray Bradbury
• “My New Ending to Rosemary’s Baby” by Ray Bradbury
• “Personal Memories of Ray Bradbury” by Marvin Kaye
• Review of “Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury” by James Aquilone
• “Remembrance” by Ray Bradbury

Weird Tales 360 is $6.99 for the double-sized, 111-page print edition, $7.95 in PDF, and just $2.99 for the Kindle or e-pub editions. It is cover-dated Fall 2012, and has a special back cover dedicated to Ray Bradbury. The art for the front cover is by Danielle Tunstall; back cover artist is David Hartman. Read the complete details and order copies at the Weird Tales website.

We last covered Weird Tales with issue 359.