Журнал «Wyrd»

Now Wyrd is a weird one — if you'll pardon the expression.

It lead a troubled and convoluted existence, and I don't claim to be conversant with all the ins and outs of its history. But it appears to have begun life as a bog standard xeroxed effort put out in the summer of 1973. But by the time of its second issue, which appeared in the autumn of that same year, it had morphed into a rather nice looking chapbook, generated on an offset press with rather more skill than the creators of Weird Adventures later managed.

When the fourth issue appeared in 1975 the founders and original editors, Al Cockrell and Irvin Wagner, had both departed — for reasons for which I have no explanation — and their places taken by former contributor Brian Crist and Greg Stafford, a name which I'm sure is familiar to anyone here with an interest in RPG. Come the fifth issue and the format had morphed again into a hideous large size side stapled abomination. The chapbook dimensions were restored for issues six and seven which were published in the winter of 1976 and the autumn of 1977 respectively. The fanzine then went into hiatus for three full years before fleetingly resurfacing in 1980 with a belated eighth and final issue.