The public domain welcomes the weird (and mourns the missing)

The Internet Archive celebrates next month with “Weird Tales From the Public Domain” in-person and virtual events.

Much of Weird Tales (including the classic 1928 story “The Call of Cthulhu”) is public domain now due to copyright nonrenewal. But other creepy 1928 works like The Terror, the first talking horror film, join the public domain in 26 days. Parts persist, but I’m horrified that, as with many other films its age, no known full copies survive.

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About John Mark Ockerbloom

I'm a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
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