&sq=&lang=&file=File:Uncanny_Tales_logo.jpg){kind=logo} One of the logos used by Uncanny Tales, taken from the cover of issue 13 (January 1942) | |
| Editor | Melvin R. Colby |
|---|---|
| Categories | Science fiction |
| Format | digest; pulp |
| Publisher | Adam Publishing Co.; Norman Book Co. |
| Founded | 1940 |
| Final issue | 1943 |
| Country | Canada |
| Based in | Toronto |
| Language | English |
Uncanny Tales was a Canadian science fiction pulp magazine edited by Melvin R. Colby that ran from November 1940 to September 1943. It was created in response to the wartime reduction of imports on British and American science-fiction pulp magazines. Initially it contained stories only from Canadian authors, with much of its contents supplied by Thomas P. Kelley, but within a few issues Colby began to obtain reprint rights to American stories from Donald A. Wollheim and Sam Moskowitz. Wollheim's and Moskowitz's later accounts of the relationship with Colby differ. Moskowitz reported that he found out via an acquaintance of Wollheim's that Colby had been persuaded by Wollheim to stop buying Moskowitz's submissions. Paper shortages forced the magazine to shut down after less than three years. It is now extremely rare.