/lit/ - Literature

What was the target audience of Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, and other pulp and horror magazines like that. I know they’re what HP Lovecraft and other famous short story writers published in but who were they directed at? Was it mostly seen how comics are for teenagers, or would you see businessmen in the 1920s pick up a copy to read on the bus?

WEIRD TALES scans, do they exist? Where can I get them?

I know there's scans of a few issues on archive.org but can you get the missing issues anywhere?

>that video where Brandon Sanderson asks a class of MFA creative writing students how many of them subscribe to short story magazines or regularly read short stories
>one or two people raise their hands out of 20-30
What went wrong? Short stories used to be the bread and butter of genre fiction, but now it is exclusively the domain of pretentious literary authors like George Saunders who prides himself on the fact that nobody reads his shit.

Are there any publishers making magazines like Weird Tales? Magazines like this didn't last long, but today with the Internet and publishing software, it seems more practical in ways. Hell, people are subscribing to those Japanese candy boxes. I imagine this sort of magazine could maybe even thrive. Surely it must exist somewhere? I'd happily spend $10, $20, even maybe $40 to receive 12-24 issues annually.

>>9368626
Young men ordering "trash" from publishers teetering on bankruptcy has nothing on the nerd culture of today.

I don't read contemporary fantasy/science fiction/horror short stories at all, only novels

What is the modern equivalent to Weird Tales?

It says a new Lovecraft tale. That isn't technically true. Herbert West Re-Animator was originally published in Home Brew, not Weird Tales.