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Post by dem on Apr 1, 2022 15:06:57 GMT
Angela Readman & Lee Powell (eds.) - Penny Dreadfull #1 (Gateshead, circa 1993/4) Born of "a desire to contribute something towards the dying goth scene" and a shared disillusion with the contemporary crop of fanzines, many of which the editors found "too expensive/ pretentious." From the first it was Angela Readman's show, the vast bulk of the work being hers including essays on "Pr-Raphaelite Women & Victorian Values,' Carmilla - Scarlet Sensuality, a round-up of four high profile Vampire Societies, the Sex Gang Children, and The History of Goth (!). Book, music and movie reviews. Interviews pretty much a dry run for issue #2; Candia of Incubus Succubus, Terminal Power Co, and The Adams Family: in their own words .... Gabriel Ernest Vane, an early Goth regular, provides macabre fiction in the form of A Letter from a Madman. Print quality is fetchingly non-existent.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 1, 2022 15:16:37 GMT
Gorgeous scans--many thanks Dem! I love the title "Carmilla... Scarlet sensuality." My favorite film version of the novella is the one by Roger Vadim which isn't Goth at all, but I find fascinating even after numerous viewings. The English title of that film is Blood and Roses and I think that was a phrase that was sort of resonated a lot during the High Goth era.
H.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 4, 2022 8:43:21 GMT
This seems to have only had one issue, but had a good line up:  Escape! #1 1977. Editor and publisher: Charles W. Melvin ContentsEditorial Brian Lumley - Escape! Brian Lumley - Cryptically Yours Michael Fantina - The Labyrinth of Braneth-Dulzuum Edith Ogutsch - The Vampire Edith Ogutsch - The Rambunctious Bok Hannes Bok - Medical Note and Psychodyssey Karl Edward Wagner - The Other One j.e. coplin - The Corrie of the Howlings Darrell Schweitzer - The Lady of the Darkwood Joseph Payne Brennan - A Pair By Brennan Hannes Bok - To the Philicatus Eroticus Walter Shedlofsky - The Frightened Waliz j.e. coplin - Maiden of Ice and Steel Charles Saunders The Blacksmith and the Bambuti Marc Laidlaw - The Landlords L. Sprague de Camp - Darius Edith Ogutsch - Lethal Lure John Rieber - Crystal Visions Darrell Schweitzer - Something Like the Hobo Bird John Rieber - Thoth-Amon Views and Reviews Stephanie Stearns - Another Time, Another Place Back Page - Stephen Fabian I guess:  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 4, 2022 8:48:40 GMT
The Golden Lamprey #12 1983 (for the 112th mailing of the SFPA)  Published by Vernon Clark. Cover by Mahlon Blaine ContentsVernon Clark - Cryptic Comments Steve Eng - The Derleth Difference Poetry Section (by Vernon Clark) Vernon Clark - Strange Tales Index Back cover by John F. Mayer:  |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 4, 2022 9:37:34 GMT
The cover for Golden Lamprey is wonderful. Is this fan art or taken from somewhere?
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Post by helrunar on Apr 4, 2022 13:26:02 GMT
Gorgeous art, and the back cover illo and caption really quite sweet.
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem on Apr 5, 2022 16:21:58 GMT
Vanda L. [ed.] - Demeter IX (Whitby, Summer 1996)  Craig HuckinsIn direct contrast to the Penny Dreadfull debut, Vanda L's Demeter always looked as if there'd been a few bob thrown at it. This 9th issue includes; Valentina Nightingale on Paradise ... by way of Kensal Green; Vlad the Aler on Europe's Most Haunted City: A Ghostly Tour of York; The Plight of the Vampire Bat: an interview with Brian Stableford; Dr. Blood's Goth Babe of the month (congratulations, Myrtle Garland from Blackpool); mini report and photos from Vamps & Tramps II; reader Vaultina Catacoma on her true experience of a cursed item of jewellery, etc; plus the usual movie reviews, agony aunt's advice column, short story and poem by J. Flaxton, new members, forthcoming events. Speaking of which ... ****** Happenings, mid-late 'nineties. Pagan's invade Stepney! Goths behave impeccably in Whitby! A millennium 'Satanic orgy' in a sleepy Herts village. And Dracula, bloody Dracula.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 5, 2022 18:13:36 GMT
Love that Beltane Bash flyer. Jack Gale is lovely. I really enjoy his poetry and his books on Greenwich and the ancient Scandinavian Winter Goddess Holda are classics, to me at least.
Hee hee, wonder if the Satanic Orgy actually did happen on New Year's Day in Royston Parish Church. And did the Goat of Mendes put in his scheduled special guest appearance? Inquiring minds want to know.
Fab assortment as always!
cheers, Hel.
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Post by dem on Apr 6, 2022 6:15:23 GMT
Love that Beltane Bash flyer. Jack Gale is lovely. I really enjoy his poetry and his books on Greenwich and the ancient Scandinavian Winter Goddess Holda are classics, to me at least. Hee hee, wonder if the Satanic Orgy actually did happen on New Year's Day in Royston Parish Church. And did the Goat of Mendes put in his scheduled special guest appearance? Inquiring minds want to know. I kept a programme of the event, gifted us by the very lovely Brian & Trish Botham. Here's a scan. As to the Satanic Orgy, the invite was sent us by the Association of Anonymous Astronauts (not certain, but I think they may have enclosed a condom, too). |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 6, 2022 7:29:45 GMT
Overwhelming program. Alone the Crafts Market could cost one a fortune.
Three questions: Why not three days? Saturday to Monday? A British custom?
Was it successful and could lure enough people?
Is Ravens Wood still standing?
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Post by helrunar on Apr 6, 2022 15:36:48 GMT
What a wonderful program! It all sounds marvelous.
If it's like the events we used to have over here, I imagine it was all done by volunteers and just doing two days might have been a huge amount of work. I used to attend a Pagan conference in San Jose California that started on Friday and went through to the Presidents Day holiday on the following Monday (but the programs on that Monday ended at Noon). They had a huge staff of volunteers as well as a much smaller contingent of paid staff to run that thing, and it was massive. It was sort of like attending a Star Trek convention but with costumes from world mythology as well as various comic books, videogames etc.
I don't know if any of these conferences will come back now that the more extreme phase of the Pandemic seems to be receding though the new infections and variants go on. I wonder if there will be a "Beltane bash" in the London area or elsewhere this year.
Thanks so much Kev for these scans.
Steve
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Post by dem on Apr 8, 2022 5:49:52 GMT
Overwhelming program. Alone the Crafts Market could cost one a fortune.
Three questions: Why not three days? Saturday to Monday? A British custom?
Was it successful and could lure enough people? Is Ravens Wood still standing?
1. No idea 2. Can't be certain, but I really hope so. Not quite sure how or why it happened but there was a considerable crossover between the Goth, Vampyre, Fetish and Pagan scenes just then. Mick Mercer caught the moment in The Hex Files: The Goth Bible, a directory of the days relevant societies, publications, zines, clothing outlets & Co. 3. See above. I've not been able to locate it under that name. I'm guessing it must be pretty tiny? I've since found - and just as soon again mislaid - the programme for the Halloween event in Mile End/ Stepney featured on last page. Will scan at least a page or two if and when it resurfaces. |
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Post by dem on Apr 8, 2022 6:03:53 GMT
Ken Cowley, author of class supernatural horror shorts Dracula Reflects and The Last Sin, began his mail order service as a retirement hobby, "not a business. I only aim to cover costs plus my own hopeless addictive collecting habit, although I do my best to give my customers good service." He certainly did that, a true gentleman to do business with, and a lot of fun, too. Ken's catalogues were as manna to anthology fiends, small press enthusiasts and, uniquely for a UK dealer, weird menace ghouls. M. R. Crosby's tribute - R.I. P. Ken Cowley - may be of interest to admirers of Robert Aickman. |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 8, 2022 8:07:35 GMT
1. No idea 2. Can't be certain, but I really hope so. Not quite sure how or why it happened but there was a considerable crossover between the Goth, Vampyre, Fetish and Pagan scenes just then. Mick Mercer caught the moment in The Hex Files: The Goth Bible, a directory of the days relevant societies, publications, zines, clothing outlets & Co. 3. See above. I've not been able to locate it under that name. I'm guessing it must be pretty tiny? Thanks. I imagine it must have been a sight to behold. |
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Post by dem on Apr 9, 2022 10:42:08 GMT
Give a goth a gift, take Rorschach test, see Vamps, meet tramps, return of the Yellow book, etc. |
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