Terror: Born Jan. 1992. Died Feb. 1992?

[dem bones]

Terror #1 (Bernard Doe, Jan. 1992)

As far as I'm aware, there were just the two issues of this fact, 'fact', fiction and film mixed bag.

Debut. News, quiz, Dario Argentino feature ("Italian horror master reveals his fascination with death, suicide and Poe"), Classics Redefined (Roger Corman's Fall Of The House Of Usher), Caroline 'Morticia' Jones remembered, Computer Games & Games Workshop, Nightmare On Elm Street retrospective, reviews (commendably, a page was set aside for horror 'zines), the unmentionable North London 'Vampire' hoax (here taken seriously), a pin-up of Uncle Fester and a rewarding chat with an unrepentant Shaun Hutson. Re-reading it this morning has decided me to investigate Shadows which has lurked unread on the bookcase for centuries. It's the lure of "detailed necrophilia" that swung it.

The managing editor was Malcolm Dome, the just plain editor was Jerry Ewing, and the contributors to #1 were Sylvie Simmons, Denise Stillie, Mark Blake, Lorrainne Williams, Deborah Russell, Frank O'Connor, and Chris Marlowe.


Terror #1 (Bernard Doe, February 1992)

Issue two and you've a magazine coming into it's stride. Hardly groundbreaking - you can't really fail with a Peter Cushing retrospective, and it was only a matter of time before Terror got around to a feature on The Omen series - but it works. Gorehounds and SFX worshippers can slobber over the obligatory interview with the day's big make-up wizard Tom Savini. For those who appreciate prog-rock album covers, artist Roger Dean takes leave of his Topographical Oceans to chat with Gary Sharpe-Young. Zed F. Gore celebrates Theatre Of Blood in what was to be the final Classic redefined. Malcome Dome contributes five sides on the Kung-Fu movies of Chang Cheh in what was intended to be the first part of a series. For this reader, the highlight was Jerry Ewing's interview with former punk muso turned Psychic Quester, Andrew Collins (Strange Phenomenamagazine, would be nemesis of The Black Alchemist and The Brentford Griffin, etc). A brief piece on "failed rock star, promising author" Steve "Wulf" Harris, letters page From Beyond, quiz, reviews, etc.

And then, it seems, it was gone.

Modified by me when it was pointed out below that there was a slight technical error concerning the thread title ......

[pulphack]

er, shouldn't that be '92, dem?

well, jerry ewing and malcolm dome can be found plying their trade at Classic Rock these days, amongst other places. and bernard doe - well, the man who took Metal Forces from fanzine to Smiths, and a champion of extreme metal and guiitar music at a time when kerrang! was obsessed with guns&wankers and hair metal. without him, no terrorizer, etc. what is he doing now?

[dem bones]

*splutter* Um ...



OK. I admit this might look like a blatant screw-up on my part, but appearances are deceptive! Dig a little deeper and we find the alleged "mistake" - as if! - is entirely deliberate! You know what they're like on here, pulps. If I put "1992" everyone would avoid it. But "1972" - well, I think that "Read 9 times" tells its own success story, don't you?

[carolinec]

Sept 10, 2008 13:39:38 GMT dem bones said:

*splutter* Um ...



OK. I admit this might look like a blatant screw-up on my part, but appearances are deceptive! Dig a little deeper and we find the alleged "mistake" - as if! - is entirely deliberate! You know what they're like on here, pulps. If I put "1992" everyone would avoid it. But "1972" - well, I think that "Read 9 times" tells its own success story, don't you?

You know what happens to people who make errors like that on this board, don't you Dem? Right, bend over ...

[dem bones]

Eek! You weren't supposed to notice! *ulp!*

[sean]

1972's good. It's when the first edition of me was released...

[erebus]

Ive got issue . The Hutson interview in this is great .