There’ve been existing many horror magazines and movies. Through the years many people gathered and a great communities’ come out. But today I’ll be writing about two of the first world’s magazines today.
- Der Orchideengarten (“The Garden of Orchids”)
Let’s start with first horror magazine that we ever know Der Orchideengarten (“The Garden of Orchids”), which ran 51 issues from January 1919 to November 1921, a year after from World War I. This magazine shouldn’t be underrated in intellectual requirements of a average reader. This magazine’s published many famous writings from such names of you certainly familiar with like H.G. Wells ve Karel Capek, Charles Dickens, Puşkin, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Voltaire, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne have been published in this magazine. The publisher’s words for advertising the magazine is “The orchid garden is with its beautiful — sometimes gruesome-mad, sometimes satirical-pleasurable graphic decoration, with its colorful gripping cover, which changes with each issue, and the rich text contributions (twenty-four pages) a very unique sheet, which prepares richest enjoyment. In the permanent supplement ‘The Treibhaus’, Dr. Max Kemmerich presents his strange and strange treasures.”. But unfortunately after a short depletion of content and economic depression of Germany and additional to this conflict with criminal law regulations against the dissemination of indecent writings brought the end of the magazine.
2. Weird Tales
The Weird Tales many people know it as the first horror/fantasy magazine ever but it actually first published after 4 years than Der Orchideengarten first came out at 1919. So this magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922 and published first at 1923. We can consider the magazine within two parts: The Weird Tales Tradition, The Modern Magazine. The weird tales tradition printed early work by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith, all of whom went on to be popular writers and is folded at 1954. After that there were several brief attempts to revive it and from the beginning in 1988 Weird Tales has published more or less continuously, albeit through a few format / frequency / ownership changes, to date. The magazine gathered a great community around itself.
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