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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 9, 2008 13:11:48 GMT
Two more for the Ark:   Deathrealm #28 (1996) Major long-lived Horror mag. I first encountered it with issue 13 in 1990 and it finished with issue 31 in 1997. For much of its time, I had a regular column in it called 'Tentacles Across The Atlantic'Karl Edward Wagner also wrote a regular column. Editor and Founder: Stephen Mark Rainey This cover: Ian McDowell The Pseudo-Nymph (1991) Possibly its only issue. Wonderfully illustrated. Mastermind: Chris Hart Contained select stories from these mags: Auguries, BBR, Dream, Nova SF, The Scanner and WorksI think the cover is by Kevin Cullen |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 10, 2008 14:44:21 GMT
THE WYRD PRESS ENTRYThis is the mother and daughter team: Lesley Wilkinson and the artist Camille Gabrielle who produced two Horror mags, Masque and Ocular, throughout the nineties, and a series of chapbooks. Only the Horror mags below are going into the Ark. The 'Weirdmonger's Tales' (1994) is not being put in the Ark (since the Ark is not for single author chapbooks*) and is only included below to show the meticulous precision taken by Camille in producing the art. I have never met these ladies, but they put an onyx ring on the image's correct finger (a ring given to me by my grandmother when I was 18 and I still wear to this day). I never told them about this ring!! Ocular #19 (1999) Contains work by David Canada, M. Malefica Grendenwolf Pendragon Le Fay, Mario Petrucci, John Light and others. More of an occult all-rounder than a horror mag, but contained horror stories. I think the cover art is by Camille Gabrielle. Masque #2 (1994) Contains stories by William Meikle, Rhys Hughes, Chris Fretwell and others. Not sure who did the cover art. The internal art for all Wyrd Press booklets and mags was wonderful, but the many items of artwork in 'The Weirdmonger's Tales' are breathtakingly complicated, precise and staggeringly beautiful.. * The Dagon #26 shown earlier wasn't a single author chapbook but a regular edition of the mag. 
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2008 9:30:45 GMT
Two more for the Ark: Picatrix 1992 Editor: Chico Kidd (AF Kidd) I don't know if she intended it to be regular but this was the first and only issue. Contained work by Roger Johnson, John Howard, James Puckhill-Rathbone, David G Rowlands, and (with some SF) Rick Kennett and many others. Front Cover: AF Kidd Other illlustrations: the incomparable Dallas Clive Goffin Pluto's Orchard 1997 Trance FictionEditor: Michael Cisco (the now quite famous writer) Its first (and only issue?). Contained work by Michael Cisco, Scot Peacock, Karen R Porter, Cathy Buburuz, Edillson Barsee, W Gregory Stewart, Lida Broadhurst (who was in the first issue of Nemonymous), William P Robertson, John Benson, Ann K Schwader, M. Malefica Grendelwolf Pendragon Le Fay and others. Cover Photo: Michael Cisco |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2008 12:55:45 GMT
Skeleton Crew #1 (1988) This is the very first issue of what became THIS professional magazine with a chequered history. Editor: Dave Hughes (to be distinguished from Dave W Hughes of 'Works' magazine who added the W to his name for that very purpose!). It seems I had the only fiction in this first issue! There were also some articles on Stephen King. It became a very powerful force at that time in the Small Press horror field. Cover: Nick McGovern not dead, but dreaming vol. VII (1997) This was a most loveable mag edited by the adorable Lara Haynes. Always tied with loose thread around the spine. I have ten issues of it: from 1995 up to 2001 when I think it finished. Not sure of this issue's cover artist, but it contains work by Christopher Hivner, Craig Sernotti (with whom I once did several collaborations), G. Warlock Vance, Kim Traub (who I note did the cover for Vampire Junction on the Vampy Crew thread), Cindy Main and others.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 11, 2008 19:13:21 GMT
====================== The last two from me for a while: Urges #1 (1995) Huntiegouke Press (Ian Hunter) produced this mag and ' Footsteps'. I have three issues of ' Urges' (Erotic Tales of Fantasy & Horror) and three issues of ' Footsteps' (Quiet Horror)(1995 - 1997) No artwork other than the covers, but welcome for that! No cover credits. This issue has work by William Meikle, Trevor Denyer, Peter Valentine Timlett, Peter Tennant and others. Voyage Issue ? (1999) Horror mag. I have four issues (active 1997 - 1999?) I have actually forgotten the mag's mastermind's name, but I should know it. It's on the tip of my tongue rather than in the mag! No cover credit. This issue contains work by Sarah Crabtree, Robert Dunbar, AC Evans, Stuart Hughes and many others. |
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Post by poesque on Jan 12, 2008 1:22:58 GMT
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Post by Calenture on Jan 12, 2008 12:56:33 GMT
Methinks I recognise a face. Happy to be the first to say Welcome, Poesque.   Dark Horizons #28 (1985)Cover: Mark Dunn All these small press covers make me much regret my "years in the wilderness" (Good grief, I'll have to find a less Messianic term for "On the dole"  . But it's great to see them here now. I've recently joined the BFS, and Dark Horizons is an excellent magazine and its cover art still brilliant. My reason for singling out this Mark Dunn cover is that I thought it looked so refreshing with its pre-Photoshop glory. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 12, 2008 19:43:09 GMT
Good to see you here, Poesque! Thanks for your pair. Here's my last pair before I take a break from herding my choice of beasts into the Ark: Tales After Dark #2 (1986) Editor/Publisher: Garrie Hall This issue will always bear the shame of my very first published story ('Padgett Weggs')!  Also contains work by Carl T Ford (editor of 'Dagon' where our very own Redbrain was already being published and it was Redbrain who tipped me off about 'Tales After Dark'*), Robert M Price, John A Crow, Donald R Burleson, Roger Johnson, Brian Lumley, Robert Longmuir, Peter Jeffery, Stephen Skwarek, Steve Hatherley... Cover Art: Allen Koszowski *I gave it a go therefore at this time (when I was 39) with a quickly scribbled story having had an ambition to be a fiction writer all my life up till then. Earlier, Redbrain had a story in 'Tales After Dark' #1 and I thought if he can get a story published so can I! Up till then I thought you had to be a rather special person to get published!  Dreams & Nightmares #41 (1993) I have 17 issues of this mag, from 1990 to 2001, but there's a lot more been published than that! Editor/Publisher: David C Kopaska-Merkel Cover of this issue: Russ Miller This issue contains work by: Herb Kauderer, Bob Cook, W Gregory Stewart, Dick Dahlstrom, Gary William Crawford (editor of 'Night Songs'), Bruce Holland Rogers, t Winter Damon (who did the stunning artwork for 'Best of DF Lewis' (Tal 1993)), Corinne DeWinter and others. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 13, 2008 15:11:22 GMT
Here's my last pair before I take a break from herding my choice of beasts into the Ark: In fact, I've decided not to post any more of my pairs here unless at least one other person posts his or her own pair between mine, ie so that you don't get a whole string of DFL's choice of mag covers without break. So, at any time, to see more of my own choices here, please alternately, O people, post your own! If you see what I mean! |
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Post by dem on Jan 21, 2008 14:03:20 GMT
I'm struggling to come up with a pair that you've not already mentioned! The "legendary" sixth issue of Poison Coffin: note free sweeties taped to cover. Fire, their founder and figurehead was still around (I'm pretty sure the cover illo is one of hers) but there'd been a bust-up in the camp and this issue was compiled by an all-new version of the 'Coffin: Kevin, Suzy, Igor and Severed Hand. Interviews with goth bands and vampire scene "personalities" you're lucky if you avoided. Ripperologist #30, (August 2000) Paul Begg edits the long-running Ripperologist for the Cloak & Dagger Club whose membership include several eminent 'Ripper' authors, sundry Casebook.org types and Jeremy-bloody-Beadle. I despise the Ripper industry but the magazine is very impressive. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 21, 2008 15:24:54 GMT
Thanks, Demonik. Not heard of those. Now I'm free to post these:   Bloodlines vol 2, issue 6 1993 Headlines with a Bloodlines Exclusive: About writer DF Lewis. Editor-in-Chief: Amber Altman Not sure how many issues it ran, but the mag was based in HAWAII This issue's cover: Allen Koszowski (who did the cover of TALES AFTER DARK 2 above) Contains work by: Angelique Cobb, Charlee Jacob, cygne, Kat Kuhn and others. The Zone #2 1995 Run by the inimitable Tony Lee who is still going strong in the Small Press field. Cover: Kevin Cullen (who I believe did the above stunning cover for 'The Pseudo-Nymph) This contains work by Steve Sneyd, Rhys Hughes, Richard Wonnacott, Andrew Darlington, Katherine Roberts and others I look forward to providing two more covers for the Ark after at least one other person has posted on this thread with another pair. |
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Post by dem on Jan 24, 2008 12:28:16 GMT
Weird Tales Collector #6 (Robert Weinberg, 1980)  Reprint of Margaret Brundage's classic cover for Weird Tales, Jan. 1938.
Thomas Kent Miller & Gary von Tersch - The Raconteur of Emerald Lake (E. Hoffman-Price)
Stephen Gresham - An Interview with Mary E. Counselman
Chet Williamson - The Case Of The Moonlighting Physicians
Robert A. W. Lowdnes - Readers Choice
Walter Shedlofsky - Anagallery (verse)
Strange Stories Issue Index & Author Index
Letters (E. Hoffman-Price, Mike Ashley, R.A.W.L., Lila Thomson)If I had any more of these I'd have given Weird Tales Collector its own thread. Robert Weinberg is a class act and this is a fantastic magazine featuring a complete index to the short-lived but influential Strange Stories (1939-41). Mary E. Counselman speaks fondly of her years with Weird Tales and her enduring friendships with Seabury Quinn, Derleth, Harold Lawlor and mentor Farnsworth-Wright, while The Case Of The Moonlighting Physicians reveals the unlikely source for Virgil Finlay's famous portraits of Jules de Grandin and Dr. Trowbridge - a laxative ad! Knight, Death & Devil (Gargoyles Press, April - May, 1999) In which the spiky heroines of the dear, departed Gothic Society nonchalantly shrugged off their shrouds and emerged from the vault clutching a deceptively dainty little item which recalled the celebrated Udolpho despite bearing no surface resemblance to it whatsoever! So sad that it only survived the one issue. After the amusing and typically self-effacing open letter, we get down to the nitty gritty. The Fire By Night, a taster for Jennie Gray's (then) forthcoming non-fiction outing of the same title, details the fallout from a tragic incident which saw 150 Englishmen perish on returning from a bombing raid on Berlin. As Jennie delved deeper into her research she unintentionally debunked the family legends surrounding a close relatives fortuitous survival. Jan Bondeson's curious and terrible history of The Feejee Mermaid and, in particular, Jennie's De Quincy & Murder - specifically his reportage on 1811's notorious Ratcliffe Highway slaughter spree - are not a million miles removed from the delightfully grisly, blackly comic fare Udolpho excelled in. Those with an interest in the latter case will be aware of the legend that the alleged murderer, John Williams, is buried at the crossroads of Cable Street and what is now Canon Street Road. Well, there's no 'legend' about it according to the proprietor of the gloriously gloomy Willow Music Hall who once informed me that he'd discovered the fellow's staked corpse beneath boards during renovation work at the Crown & Dolphin public house! Mind you, he was probably talking bollocks. Finally, we have those behind Misericordia explain themselves and their medieval music, as featured on the Robins M'aime CD. Beautiful.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 24, 2008 16:23:46 GMT
  Cthulhu Cultus #9 (1998) Amazingly, I have 7 issues (1997 – 1999) and they all have exactly the same uncredited cover design (except for the issue number and the colour card it’s printed on)!! And what is the design supposed to represent? (NB: The faint blobs around the edge are not on the cover itself). Packed with fiction. Writers in this issue are Burnham (Crispin Burnham?), R.S.Cartwright, Robert Bee, James Ambuehl, Tani Jantsang, Philip Obed Marsh and others. Editor: P Marsh Beyond The Boundaries #11 (1997) Welsh Speculative Writers Foundation I have five issues (1995-1997) Chairman: Peter Grehan Editor: John Sheppard Cover on this issue: D.A.Atkins This issue contains work by Paul Carradine, David Price, Roddy Willams, Miss E.R.Harris, Dr David Evans and others Later Edit: The Cultus design looks like a hand upon other body parts. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 24, 2008 16:59:06 GMT
Ark = Arkive
I look forward to doing my next pair after someone else does their next pair.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 25, 2008 9:05:26 GMT
Just noted that this thread has now reached its thousandth viewing! I shall celebrate by posting another pair (out of order) today! |
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. But it's great to see them here now.
