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Before we get started, I'd like to thank Doug Draa for the review copy. Doug, who blogs at Uncle Doug's Bunker of Vintage Horror Paperbacks, is a new contributing editor at Weird Tales, and we wish him a successful run in that capacity.
Weird Tales has adopted the policy of giving each issue a theme. The previous issue was Cthulhu Returns, and according to the ad in the present issue, the next issue's theme is the Undead. There are rumors of a sword and sorcery issue in the works as well. In addition to having stories around a specific theme, each issue will also have unthemed stories. As you can see from the cover, the present issue has the theme of Fairy Tales.
Fairy Tales as a theme is pretty broad. That can encompass retellings or deconstructions of established fairy tales, new stories which read like fairy tales in they way they are structured and/or the themes they address, and stories in which (often contemporary) characters interact with the realm of fairy. All of those and more are included here.
