Phantasmagoria and Gruesome Grotesques

[David A. Riley]

I know some Vault members are already involved with Trevor Kennedy's Phantasmagoria magazine and Gruesome Grotesques but I thought I would add a few details here as there is a lot of shared interests.

The latest issue of Phantasmagoria magazine is over 350 illustrated pages for only £7.99.

Phantasmagoria magazine
Gruesome Grotesques

[David A. Riley]

Just to let everyone know there is a new issue of Phantasmagoria magazine out this weekend, featuring the one and only Johnny Mains on its front cover.

[David A. Riley]

There is also a special about R. Chetwynd-Hayes.

[jamesdoig]

Dec 19, 2019 18:41:34 GMT David A. Riley said:

Just to let everyone know there is a new issue of Phantasmagoria magazine out this weekend, featuring the one and only Johnny Mains on its front cover.

Very Nice! I wonder what needs to happen to get it distributed in Australia.

[Jojo Lapin X]

Dec 19, 2019 19:48:15 GMT jamesdoig said:

Dec 19, 2019 18:41:34 GMT David A. Riley said:

Just to let everyone know there is a new issue of Phantasmagoria magazine out this weekend, featuring the one and only Johnny Mains on its front cover.

Very Nice! I wonder what needs to happen to get it distributed in Australia.

The problem is that it is currently summer in Australia. The summer of 2020.

[johnnymains]

Jesus H Christ, I look terrifying blown up to that proportion. 

[Jojo Lapin X]

Dec 19, 2019 20:54:45 GMT johnnymains said:

Jesus H Christ, I look terrifying blown up to that proportion. 

Is it available as a poster? A friend wants to know.

[johnnymains]

Only if you laminate it. 

[David A. Riley]

Dec 19, 2019 20:54:45 GMT johnnymains said:

Jesus H Christ, I look terrifying blown up to that proportion. 

You do indeed!

[David A. Riley]

Dec 19, 2019 19:48:15 GMT jamesdoig said:

Dec 19, 2019 18:41:34 GMT David A. Riley said:

Just to let everyone know there is a new issue of Phantasmagoria magazine out this weekend, featuring the one and only Johnny Mains on its front cover.

Very Nice! I wonder what needs to happen to get it distributed in Australia.

It will be available on amazon everywhere.

[andydecker]

Very nice! Both of them.

[David A. Riley]

First order for PHANTASMAGORIA MAGAZINE now completed with FORBIDDEN PLANET LONDON MEGASTORE in Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End of the capital near Covent Garden, so if you live in and around London you know where you can easily pick up a copy.

The mag will be stocked on their shelves by next week!

The next issue after this will be out in March and has a Lovecraftian theme.

[dem bones]

Trevor Kennedy [ed.] - Phantasmagoria #16 (Late Summer - Autumn, 2020)

Randy Broeker: Self portrait

A Note From the Editor

Randy Broecker interview and portfolio
Ramsey Campbell interview
Richard Chizmar interview (including reviews of Gwendy’s Button Box and Gwendy’s Magic Feather)
John Gilbert - The Many Faces of... The Phantom of the Opera
James Keen - Vic and Son: cartoon
Phantasmagoria at The Secret Bookshelf: feature with Trevor Kennedy and GCH Reilly
Meanwhile, Back in Atlantis: feature by Adrian Cole, with artwork by Jim Pitts and review of Elak, King of Atlantis, by David A. Riley
Anna Taborska interview(including illustrations by Reggie Oliver from Anna's new book, Bloody Britain)
Barnaby Page - The Fundamental Power of Psycho (1960):
Barnaby Page - Jawa, Forty-five Years Later.
Michael Campbell - Resurrecting the Candyman

Phantasmagoria Fiction

Mike Chlnn - Eigenspace X
David A. Riley - Hanuman
Joe X. Young - Liver and Bacon
Barry Bellows - Beady Eyes
Christopher Fielden - Shadow of an Incubus
D.T. Langdale - Tomatoes According to Geoff
Jessica Stevens - The Discontinued
Sean O'Connor - Wolf Hill
David A. Riley - He Thought He was Dying
Richard Bell - Towak
Emerson Firebird - Three Sure Sentences
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Marc Damian Lawler - Introducing Before You Blow Out the Candle... Book Two
Malachy Coney interview
Raven Dane - Quatermass and the Kid
Dave Jeffery - Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Abdul-Qaadir Taariq Bakari-Muhammad - Twenty-first Century Twilight Zone
Douglas Tait - Owen Quinnand the Time Warriors archive
Mathew Waters interview
David Brilliance - 1970s Horror films
Marc Damien Lawler - Reading R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Phantasmagoria Reviews
Readers’ Comments
Acknowledgements


Have only had time for a cursory flick through. Only one I've seen before is the Chetwynd-Hayes special edition. This regular issue clocks in at 330+ pages, many illustrated. Great to see they've interviewed Anna Taborska - that's this evening's read sorted!

[dem bones]

Made a start on this. The Anna Taborska fans among us are well catered for - including Bloody Britain ad and three Reggie Oliver illustrations, the (alarmingly upbeat) interview runs to 19 pages. How can I join FOLP?

David A. Riley - Hanuman: India. Stuart David Harper, author, pays a heavy price, for tormenting a monkey during a drunken binge. Henceforth he's plagued by flashbacks to the days of mutiny when, apparently, he was a thuggee who betrayed his colleagues to save his own skin. It didn't work. An assassin made short work of him, vowing "Kali will eat your heart, you damned traitor!" Back in the present, the monkey, who, now he thinks of it, bears an uncanny facial resemblance to the killer, duly haunts him to and beyond the grave.

We can add a yellow rag of silk to fashion victim's wardrobe.

Sean O'Connor - Wolf Hill: Joseph and Helen Greene take a log cabin on Mont Blanc to escape Dublin for the weekend. Helen, who doesn't read enough horror stories, instinctively removes a leather belt with silver wolf buckle from around an obelisk. She supposes it must be worth a fortune, and the couple are facing financial ruin ...

Joe X. Young - Liver and Bacon: Wartime Britain. For Chilcott and Hilary, even the Blitz has its compensation.

[andydecker]

I bought the Kindle edition. Is there really a Ramsey Campbell interview included? It seems to be missing in the Ebook edition. Which also has an erratic page-numbering and no content-page.