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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 23, 2008 20:29:28 GMT
FOR THE VAMPY CREW Front and Back Cover of MAUSOLEUM Vol 1 No 10 Front Cover: Crow Ravenscar Back Cover: Armando Norte Publisher: Gothia Graphics Editor: Crow Ravenscar Contains work by LP Van Ness, DFL, Karen Blicker, Kevin L Donihe, Donna Taylor Burgess and others
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 23, 2008 20:41:07 GMT
FOR THE VAMPY CREW Three more covers of THE BLOODY QUILL and one of BLOOD ROSES Bloody Quill#1 (1996) Cover: Elaine Tierney #6 (1999) Cover: Steve Lines #2 (1997) Cover: 'Vlad Tepes' by J. Rogerson Silver Gull Publishing (J. & E.L. Rogerson) Blood Roses #3 (2000) Journal of DreadCover: James L Hartley Editor: Doris Pearson
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 24, 2008 19:02:09 GMT
[ Skeleton Girls #6 (1995) Editor, front and back covers: ? A lot of strange stuff plus a fiction by DFL!
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 24, 2008 21:37:37 GMT
Sacrilege! 'The "Literary" Vampire Magazine'Onyx Vol III, issue 4 (1994) Publisher: Mark Williams Editor: Deanna Riddle Cover: Ron White? Nightbird Productions, Ltd. Contains work by F Paul Wilson, Margaret Smith, DFL, Joel Bjorling and others
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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2008 9:06:32 GMT
I once interviewed the skeleton girls - and their sister in fem-dom, princess spider - for vat. that was a lot more interesting than this post is going to be! a matter of opinion, perhaps, but maybe it was fortunate for me that it was a postal job as spider in particular was ever on the look out for new victims and i don't think i'd be in any shape contribute to a board if she'd got me all webbed up. Stilll have some photo's of the girls in action - they were partial to dressing, tying and making up their subs and custard-pieing them in the face .... i probably should double-check but i'm pretty certain that one unusual thing about onyx was that it was edited by a staunch christian?
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 25, 2008 17:16:35 GMT
Wow! I never knew there were real Skeleton Girls!
BTW, I came THIS close today to posting here the cover of my contributor copy of the Australian mag MISANTHROPE !!!
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 2, 2008 17:15:40 GMT
======== Having just put this mag on the ARK thread, I have realised it should have gone here as it is subtitled on the contents page as Vampire Tales...Actually, SEDUCTIVE TORTURE is an apt title for this sort of literature, don't you think? D. M. Yorton who published it seemed to have a whole stable of outlets ... Purple Mist, Dark Corridors, Beyond, Pillow Dreams... Also just noticed that this mag has a story by J. Rogerson (the editor of The Bloody Quill). And a Margaret B Simon/ DF Lewis collaboration called 'Cigwitch'.
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Post by williemeikle on Mar 31, 2008 18:37:35 GMT
For the Ark's VAMPY CREW Bats and Red Velvet Vol 1 No 7 (1993) Not sure how long it lasted, but I knew it from the above issue to issue 15 in 1995. Based in Newcastle, Uk. Editor: Jo Cover art: Jess The only person I've heard of in it is me! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I was in six of them Des... the last time was #17 in 1996
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Post by williemeikle on Apr 1, 2008 20:45:07 GMT
And here's another Bats and Red Velvet cover. I remember it as being the first of my stories I could walk into a shop and buy... and I did just that in the Forbidden Planet store in Newcastle.
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Post by savagesinister on Dec 31, 2008 7:16:16 GMT
You guys are too kind. I'm setting up a new website (ChicagoVampire.com) and did a web search on "Chad Savage Necropolis" just to see if there was anything out there - lo and behold, this thread! I'm very flattered and grateful.
Chad Savage
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Post by dem bones on Jan 7, 2009 11:11:54 GMT
Best of luck with ChicagoVampire, Chad. I've very fond memories of the vampire fanzine explosion of the early-mid nineties, and it used to be something of an event when the latest Necropolis, Intervamp, S.O.UND, Nocturnal Ecstasy or Coven Journal came growling through the letterbox. They still make for a great read a decade on. If you're still in contact with Darlene Daniels or Ariel Smith, please pass on regards from the bastards who used to do VAT promo material
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Post by dem bones on Jul 22, 2012 5:56:27 GMT
Spent most of yesterday avoiding "the people's" Ol*mpic torch procession and consulting a fanzine stash instead. Been a while since we added to this, so ... The 13th Page Vol 1. #2 (Upland, California. Spring/ Summer 1992) At close of 1991, the Secret Order Of The Undead newsletter mutated into The 13th Page, the idea being that if you wanted the missing sheet, you wrote, drew or painted it yourself. One simple act of staple manipulation later and how's that for reader participation? The content was much the same as we'd come to expect, with the ongoing sage Beyond The Walls At The House Of S.O.UND, perverse poetry and primitive artwork, grainy photo's of the cast, and editor T. J. Teer's list of The Weirdest Things I've Found In Womens Purses. Not your average vampire 'zine doesn't even begin to cover it, and everything reached a head in the 1994 annual ..... .... which kicked off with Tungsen and Pandora's impassioned, justly scathing and still somehow very funny attack on some opportunist on the Memphis-based Commercial Appeal who'd try to pin blame for a tragic 'Black Magic' triple-slaying on T.J in particular, S.o.und in general, and also the editor of Necropolis as their publications "corrupt the minds of children to murder." Elsewhere, T. J. on "the menace on the doorstep" (Jehovah's witnesses), a mind-blowing episode of Beyond The Walls At The House Of S.O.UND, Viper's '101 Best Things About Being Dead,' a colour the sandworm competition, and perhaps my favourite of all the tributes to the late Vincent Price, as reproduced below. Uncredited (T. J. Teer) Little could we know that the next annual would be the last, S.O.Und imploding during the traumatic creation of Halloween's The 13th Page. By the close of 1995 we'd lost Necropolis, International Vampire, Vlad-era Nosferatu and their Grimoire, and for some of us things would never be quite as lively on the vampire anti-scene again.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 23, 2012 8:06:40 GMT
Shadowdance #11 (Hinckley, Ohio: Feb. 1994) Kimberley Traub Editer Michelle Belanger acknowledged the influence of Chad Savage's Necropolis, but Shadowdance was no clone and, after the first few rudimentary issues, developed an identity of its own. Shadowdance regular 'Tasha' contributes Songs Of A Demented Muse, a thoughtful essay on madness and creative genius, there's plenty artwork, original fiction from Ed Hyuck and Joseph P. Kervin, readers' letters and poetry. Lots and lots of poetry! All these years later and i'm still not sure i understood Mr. Hyuck's An Evening's Ambulation - "a brief walk with a tall, gaunt stranger who has an unknown destination and an even more inscrutable past - but, provided you got past the title, Joe Kervin's And Who Is To Say 'Is Redemption Not Divine?' has its moments. Creepy janitor Norman Edgewater, recently dismissed from Groser County High after the head walked in on him just as he had little Stevie Brady cornered in the boiler room, takes a job as caretaker of Dover cemetery. At first Norm can hardly believe his luck when he spots "a little boy, naked, capered about a ring of graves, pipes in hand," but his erection dies in his pants when the youth turns his goats face and fixes him with a hellish glare. Pan doesn't like child molesters. Michelle Belanger
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Post by dem bones on Jul 26, 2012 6:43:01 GMT
ignore me, i'm just doing my thing, etc ... Allen J. Gittens (ed.) - For The Blood Is The Life (Chippenham, Wilts: 1987 - 1997) Sonja Hastilow The politics are no concern of mine but both Allen and Carole Bohanan claimed to have started the Vampyre Society and, once they'd gone their separate ways, each stubbornly clung to the name. Whereas Miss Bohanon's The Velvet Vampyre was flashy and loud, Mr. Gittens' equally long-running For The Blood Is The Life had a more introspective feel and the articles tended toward the sober - the Summer 1991 issue (Vol 2, #9), for instance raises such such matters as Blood Drinking And Health and Human Vampires. There's also a very dear friend of mine on Some Blood Drinkers Through The Ages, the mandatory interview with that ghastly old bat from Penthouse N., Susan Kagan's most treasured vampire acquisition, and 'exclusive previews' of Rose Guiley's Vampires Among Us, C.S. Friedman's Black Sun Rising (The Coldfire Trilogy, Book 1) and - Zebra alert - Cat's appraisal of Mara McCuniff & Traci Briery's The Vampire Memoirs ("Not very convincing ... reads like the scripts from a whole bunch of low budget movies were strung together ... history is wildly inaccurate" - my kind of novel). Helen Staunton (ed.) - Lilies # 1 (Bromley, October 1994) Illustration: Alice H. Staunton - Editorial: The Beginning Has Just Started
Licon - The Boat Antiquated Armchair - Retribution Licon - Footsteps Atropos - To See The Woods Milk - Middle Of The Mercury H. Staunton - Hungry Children Of The Spirit
Poetry Laura Templeman, Jaycloth & Milk, Antiquated Armchair, Lachesis, Jenny Melmore
Artwork: Atropos, Alice ('The Man In The Moon')Can't remember how Lilies came about, think it was a college project, and I absolutely adored it. Retribution is an account of a grisly slaying and a séance gone ferociously wrong. Elsewhere there's a boat hell-bent on destroying it's passenger, a weird and wonderful vampire outing that defies my meagre powers of description, and a horror story featuring a marshmallow named Terry. If you're thinking "self-conscious student zaniness" you're wrong, it's teenage angst, pure and angry. Issue Zero, try-out for the above, includes a Poe-esque ghost story by precociously talented editor Helen/ Lachesis, who receives an entry all to herself in Mick Mercer's 'Gothic Bible', The Hex Files
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Post by dem bones on Jul 30, 2012 11:34:55 GMT
Leilah Wendell (ed.) - Westgate Press (New Orleans, 1992) " .... Another woman who loves corpses and who is quite public about it is Leilah Wendell, the curator of the House of Death in New Orleans.... She believes that necrophilia has been unfairly vilified and she wants people to understand what it means to love Death." - Kathleen Ramsland, NecrophilesMore catalogue than fanzine, promoting the sepulcheral works of Leilah Wendell, the Angel Of Death's former girlfriend. Our Name Is Melancholy: The Complete Book Of Azrael (Westgate Press, 1992) - "the most fascinating book of the 20th century" - gives the lowdown on their intimate relationship. The bits she either forgot or were edited from the original make up a second volume, The View From The Bridge, with contributions from the onbject of her affections. Leilah also edited The Azrael Project Newsletter. "The Gift, A Lifescale, Mixed-Media sculpture" by Leilah Wendell & George Hisham.
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