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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 19, 2008 14:25:46 GMT
"'Tis my Ark, mine alone!"
"'Tis mine, because I'm the Ark's very soul!" Dark 30 Vol 1, issue 2 (1993) An underground magazine that is not totally on the wallEditor/Publisher: Susan R Higgins Cover: 'White Wolf, Black Sword' by Hilton Jackson It says inside that Stephen King receives 'Dark 30'. fantasque #2 (1999) Spanning the Realms of Fantastic FictionI have several contributor copies of editions of this mag as I have with many of the mags shown on this thread. Editors: Pam Chillemi-Yeager & John Davies Front cover: Dave Fode Expressions #5 (1988) Editor: Paula Fitzgerald Cover: ? Contains a fiction by me called 'Padgett Weggs II' Fantasy Macabre #16 (1994 Beauty plus Strangeness equals TerrorRichard H. Fawcett, ye publisher Jessica Amanda Salmonson, ye editor Cover: Carlo Beuf (1951) The Collective Cauldron #1 (1998) An Exploration of the many sides of Magic and the OccultBut seems to be a Horror Fiction mag. Perhaps 'mag' stands for 'magic'? Edited by Kelly Gunter Atlas & Jeffrey A. Stadt Cover: FoolsView Studios frisson vol 1, No 2 (1996) Skull Job Productions (Scott H Urban, with whom I did many fiction collaborations). Cover signed: SHU96 Edgar #4 (1999) Editor: John Picinich Cover: Mark McLaughlin Contortions #1 (1996) Poems of extraordinary dislocation(Mine's a fiction!) Shark Attack Publications Editor: Brandon W Totman Cover: 'Nativity' by H.E. Fassl The Dream Cell #1 (1991) Editor: Shan Schofield Cover: Robert Haynes Cobweb #7 (1990) Editor: Geraldine Taylor Cover: Allan Phillips Dark Horizons #37 (1998) This is the very long-running British Fantasy Society mag. This issue edited and produced by Peter Coleborn, Mike Chinn and Phil Williams. Cover: Bob Covington CROSSINGS beyond the parallel lines (1993) One of the productions of Strait-Jacket Publications (Melissa Gish) Cover: Jim Garrison
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 19, 2008 20:21:07 GMT
Starting off with another appropriate pair for the Ark as the top two above: The End #2 (1994) This was Jeffrey Thomas' mag. A Collection of Dark LiteratureCover: Allen Koszowski End of Millennium #8 (1997) I have several editions of this mag and they regularly published Horror stories as part of their output. Editor: Mr. G.A. Coyle Cover: 'Last Pint' by Dexter with thanks to Willie B !!! Euronymous Vol 2, No. 2 (1994) Editor: Diana McCrary Cover: ? The Edge #5 (1999) Not to be confused with the British mag called 'The Edge', yet to be featured on this thread. Thievin' Kitty Publications (Greg F Gifune). Cover: Keith Minnion Dreams & Visions #7 (1991) New Frontiers in Christian FictionOne of my stories that was featured in Best of DF Lewis (Tal 1993) started its life in this mag. Skysong Press (Steve Stanton) Cover: Bob Crouch eco-runes #3 (1995) Front cover productionsCover: ? Dark Legacy Vol 2, No 1 (2001) Sorry, this mag has a later date than intended for the Ark, but I could not resist its front cover statement: We are not responsible for the sanity, or insanity, of the reader. Publisher: H'chtelegoth Press Editor: R.S. Cartwright Cover: 'Sarnath' by Sinestro dark eyes #2 (1998) Third Wave PublicationsEditor: James Lecky Cover: Desmond Knight
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Post by dem bones on Feb 19, 2008 22:44:29 GMT
been rooting through my stash and dug up some 'fantasy macabre's and a classic issue of 'dark horizons' to add when i've some time, plus some neat exploitation cinema efforts of the sheer filth variety. arguably the best of the lot (in terms of presentation and content), the elmslie ender, the wealdstone football club independent 'zine co-edited by a dear old friend of mine who some may know as martin x. russian, co-founder of the semi-legendary sheffield-based experimental noise terrorists They Must Be Russians. The mags are from 89 through to 91 by which time i'd lost contact with the russians, but martin still had the old magic. the elmslie ender was having a tough time of it because, as he explains in the magnificent #21, "it is banned from sale at all grounds in the GM Vauxhall Conference and its feeder leagues because three and a bit years and eighteen issues ago we slagged off a rival club ... of course, now there are hundreds of fanzines and i wouldn't mind betting that 95% of them have said a lot worse than us and got away with it. But we're banned and they aren't."
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 20, 2008 11:01:58 GMT
=================== been rooting through my stash Thanks for rooting, Demonik. Mags, not potatoes! des "Thanks to whoever unstashed me!" "The eyes have it!" Dead Things Magazine#1 (1999) Humorous Horror FictionEditor: David Cowdall Cover: Steve Lines Eulogy #8 (1995) Adventure in the New WorldEditor: Timothy G Libby Cover: Bob Crouch Dragon Dreaming (1998) Editor: C.A. McCord Cover: ? Samhain #35 (1992) Includes article on BBC2's Vault of Horror. Not strictly a fiction mag but often included it : here is contained my story: "How Shall I Put It?"! Editor: John Gullidge Dark Star Magazine #7 (1990) Another film mag that often included fiction. Editor: Rob Dyer Dead Lines Magazine #3 (1995) Crash-Landing Press (Nancy Purnell/Kurt Newton). Cover: Roddy Williams (with whom I used to have a regular drink among others in the early nineties.)
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 20, 2008 13:58:09 GMT
Glimpses Magazine #1 (1993) Editor and Publisher: Michael F Haynes Cover: Alfred Klosterman Gaslight #1 (1992) Tales of the UnsaneStrait-Jacket Publications (Melissa Gish) Cover: Catherine Buburuz Gravity's Angels (1998) The T Party Writers' GroupAmongst others, Gary Couzens edited... Cover Photograph: Carole Tyrell Glyph #2 (2000) A Journal of Fantasy and LegendAn Undaunted Press Publication Editors: Cullen Bunn, Robert DeVoe, Shawn Lee Cover: ? Freezer Burn Magazine #4 (1996) Publisher: David G Rogers Cover: 'Starcruiser' by Cathy Buburuz the fractal #2 (?) 1994 In co-operation with George Mason University journal of science fiction and fantasySenior Editor: David Gardner Cove: Nybor The Gargoyle #5 (1994) A Gothic RevewPublisher/Editor: Lisa A Devereaux Cover: Scott Thomas More Fungi From Yuggoth (2000) A Collection of Poem and ProseL'Image Studios/ Pentagram Publications Editor: John M Navroth Cover: Allen Koszowski
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 20, 2008 14:43:17 GMT
"Baser Pulps, Lewis? I'll teach you to call me base!" "I want to be nemonymous." Prohibited Matter #8 (1997) Australian mag. Publisher: Rod Marsden Cover: Antoinette Rydyr The Edge #1 (1989) The British mag with this title. Published by the intense Graham Evans! There was a run of this mag in the late eighties/early nineties, then again with glossy panache in the middle to late nineties. This issue has a very interesting fiction by Michael Clarke entitled 'Wagner -The Remix'. Who was or is Michael Clarke? Are you out there? This cover: Mark King Step into my... Parlour Papers #1 (1993) Strait-Jacket Publications (Melissa Gish) Cover: Richard Thaxton Peripheral Visions #5 (1991) Like with many of the mags shown on the Ark, I have several contributor copies of different editions of this publication. Editor: Rob Sommers Cover: Richard Huxon
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Post by pulphack on Feb 20, 2008 14:56:48 GMT
tell you what, just had to say that i'm really glad you're doing this, des. small press has always passed me by, for no apparent reason, and this is a real eye-opener. this is where short story writers had to go when things like London Mystery Magazine, Argosy, and the pulps disappeared. i don't mean that disparagingly, it's just that if there was still a commercial market, good writers who have remained in the small press and unfairly unknown could have found a wider audience via newstands
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 20, 2008 15:37:46 GMT
tell you what, just had to say that i'm really glad you're doing this, des. small press has always passed me by, for no apparent reason, and this is a real eye-opener. this is where short story writers had to go when things like London Mystery Magazine, Argosy, and the pulps disappeared. i don't mean that disparagingly, it's just that if there was still a commercial market, good writers who have remained in the small press and unfairly unknown could have found a wider audience via newstands Thanks, pulphack. I personally have had a lot of pleasure from the 'Small Press' in all its forms since 1986 - at which time I seriously started to believe (at the then age of 38) that I could even get myself published somewhere in the fiction world! Thanks to that 'Road to Damascus'(!), I subsequently got stories (first published in the 'Small Press') into five consecutive editions of YBHS and three of BNH, plus other professional genre and non-genre venues. And it has been a consuming hobby (writing and latterly publishing other writers' work) since then. All this is largely thanks to what I have now spontaneously named (somewhere above in a reply to a post from Rog) The Baser Pulps! Thanks to Redbrain (PFJ), too, who discovered the 'Small Press' world before I did and who gave useful feedback by letter on all my stories in the early years. More covers yet to come from me! And from other people? PS: You may be relieved to know that I submitted nothing off my own bat to anyone from 2000 onward!
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 21, 2008 8:48:33 GMT
Two mags beginning with BAR - Forerunners of Nemonymous #4? BARE BONE #3 (2003) No excuse for showing such a recent mag! But exceptions prove rules! Editor: Kevin L Donihe Contains work by Donald Burleson, Kurt Newton, Tim Emswiler, Thomas Deja, Donna Taylor Burgess, Lorin Emery, Don Webb, Phyllis Pyle, Stefano Donati, G.W.Thomas, Jeffrey A Stadt, David C Kopaska-Merkel and many many others! Barfly #2 (1996) Editor: J.Summers Contains work by Robert W Howington, Colin Cross, Andrew Darlington, and others. The black margins above are not part of either mag's cover. Nemonymous #4 (2004) had a completely blank front cover. Demonik has just started a new separate thread about Dark Dreams. ======
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Post by dem bones on Feb 21, 2008 10:20:00 GMT
hey, des! i'm still attempting to piece together some notes on a variety of publications, and i've decided upon something approaching a strategy. If i've only a single issue of whichever mag, it goes here, but if i've a run of them, or they're of especial interest (to me, if nobody else) they get a separate thread. is that ok by you? don't worry too much about the dark dreams thread (as good as the magazine unquestionably is), the one i respectfully dedicate to you is 'cut, paste and photocopy' in recognition of your contribution to these delightful reads! and here's; Stan Nicholls (ed.) - Gothique: 20th Anniversary Issue (British Fantasy Society Booklet #8, 1985) cover: David Griffiths Introduction: Stan Nicholls - The Enemy Within The Gothique Film Society Alan White - Lon Chaney Interview: "An award? An Award For What?" (from 1969, but previously unpublished) Art Portfolio: With an introduction by Julian Dubois: Above The Clouds Midnight Is Walking. Ernest Harris - Certain Disturbing Tendencies: Some Personal Reactions To Current Trends In Horror Movies Ramsey Campbell, David Sutton, Martin Lock - 2005 I don't like to say it, and i'm not even sure why, but this celebration of one of the earliest UK horror film 'zines doesn't work for me at all - could be that it's about two killer articles short of the real deal or maybe it just hasn't worn well. but that cover - and the artwork on the backside which would doubtless cause photobucket to throw a fit - has seen it remain in my collection while several other magazines went walkabout.
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Post by David A. Riley on Feb 21, 2008 11:04:12 GMT
Gothique was the very first fanzine I ever bought back when I was still at school. I still have all my copies of it. It had placed a small ad in a copy of Books and Bookmen magazine I remember being blown away by the artwork in it - not at all reminiscent of the cover of the anniversary issue you've shown. I remember regularly mailing drawings I had done at the time - I was keen on drawing then - though I never so much as received a letter of acknowledgement off them nor anything returned or published, though I always enclosed an SAE. It was very much like throwing stones into a very deep well. I had much more luck with Dave Sutton's Shadow, which improved my dwindling opinion of fanzines (or fanzine editors) in general. I was looking through my copies of Gothique recently during a reorganisation of my collection and was surprised at just how poorly printed it was by today's standards and at just how brief and superficial its reviews and articles were. Still, it filled an invaluable niche at the time and I must say I did look forward to each of its far too infrequent issues.
David
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 21, 2008 13:14:40 GMT
hey, des! i'm still attempting to piece together some notes on a variety of publications, and i've decided upon something approaching a strategy. If i've only a single issue of whichever mag, it goes here, but if i've a run of them, or they're of especial interest (to me, if nobody else) they get a separate thread. is that ok by you? don't worry too much about the dark dreams thread (as good as the magazine unquestionably is), the one i respectfully dedicate to you is 'cut, paste and photocopy' in recognition of your contribution to these delightful reads! Thanks, Demonik. And great planning, I'd say. And if there are requests for any of my specific contributor mags (on this 'wild throughput' of a thread) to be single-threaded and further-detailed, please let me know. des
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 21, 2008 15:13:05 GMT
"This Ark's gettin' 'eavier 'n' 'eavier!" eclipse #6 (1998) Edited by Claire Tighe Australian mag. Cover: ? GIBBERING MADNESS #3 (1995) Editor: Evan Horror Stuff Mail Art Loads of Stories!! NO POETRY!!Front cover: Ade Deaville Back cover: Dogger The Equinox #2 (1994) Formerly HELIANTHUSEditor: Tippi N Blevins Cover: 'The Valley of Lotek' by Tippi N Blevins Psychopoetica #41 (1998) Department of Psychology, University of Hull Editors: Geoff Lowe, Trevor Millum Cover: Trevor Millum Phantasmagoria #1 (1995) Grafic Publishing (Michael Thomas Dillon) Cover art: Cathy Buburuz & Bob Crouch INVASION OF THE SAD MAN-EATING MUSHROOMS #6 (1992) Some fiction and interviews with Kim Newman, R Lionel Fanthorpe... Editors: John Overall & Darren Jones Cover: Adjy Dig my Dogma #7 (1989) Editor: Mark Wilsher Cover?
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 21, 2008 21:25:38 GMT
A few mag covers elsewhere on the Vault are now shown below to add to the 'wild throughput' effect of my offerings in the Ark thread itself. Context info re each one linked after each cover. Those DFL contributor copies on the Vampy Crew thread are not repeated here, however. =========
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 21, 2008 21:53:25 GMT
The next post shows probably the best and worst of the covers to be in the Ark.
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