Small Press Cover Ark

[Steve]

weirdmonger said:

Sorry I can't get either of the above outsize covers to join up properly.

Not perfect, I know, but does it look something like this?
I must say I'm quite taken with this image.

There's some lovely artwork on this thread.
Thanks for posting all these, Des. As others have said, it's an invaluable record of so many people's hard work and passion.

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steve said:

Not perfect, I know, but does it look something like this?
I must say I'm quite taken with this image.

There's some lovely artwork on this thread.
Thanks for posting all these, Des. As others have said, it's an invaluable record of so many people's hard work and passion.

That's brilliant, Steve. Looks perfect. How did you manage that!!
Thanks for that and the words.
des

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Mindmares #5 (1999)
They're Here! But then ... They always were!!!
Editor: Tracy Martin
Front cover: 'Matter of Mind' by Sean Madden
Back cover: Allen Koszowski
Work by Weston Ochse, Suzanne Donahue, Shikhar Dixit, Gabriele Rolle, Neil K Henderson, Charlee Jacob, John Picinich and others

Mystique #4 (1992)
Tales of Wonder
Another fiction mag from the British Fantasy Society (along with Chills and Dark Horizons) and Saladoth Productions.
The brainchild of Mike Chinn.
Front cover: Bob Covington
Back cover: Kerry Earl
Work by Dallas Goffin, Sylvia Starshine, Anthony North, Phil Emery, David Andreas and others.

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Moonletters #2 (1995)
Editor: Shauna Skye
Cover: Dennis Preston
Work by Jeffrey Thomas, Laura Jacobsen, Christopher Hivner, William P Robertson, Leonora K Rogers, John Grey and others.

Memes #5 (1991)
Editor: Norman Jope
Cover: Susan A Duxbury
Work by Margot K Juby, Martin A Hibbert, Thomas Wiloch, Peter Redgrove, Andrew Darlington and others.

Magic Realism #4 (1991)
One of the two mags of C Darren Butler (the other being Theater of Blood yet to be featured here): Pyx Press
Cover: John D Batten
Work by P Andrew Miller, Steve Rasnic Tem, Harland Ristau, Keith Allen Daniels and others.

Lost #6 (1991)
One of my favourites.
Editor: Adam Thornton
Cover: Bill Bendix
Work by C Darren Butler, Pam Chillemi-Yeager, Mark Rich and others.

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Lateral Moves #18 (1997)
A Booke of Curiose and Interesting Beasts
"It's a right menagerie!"
Publisher: Aural Images
Green Monkey: May Milton-White
Dog-faced Baboon: Alan White
Ribbed Nose Ape: Andy Darlington etc.
Cover: ?
Work by Geoff Stevens, Colin Nixon, Gerald England, Stuart Young and others

Literatia Macabre (1995)
Strait-Jacket Publications
Editor: Danya D'Arcy
Cover: Charles Fallis
Work by Tippi N Blevins, Wayne Edwards, Lin Stein, Wlliam P Roberston, Richard L Levesque, Margaret B Simon, John Grey, Catherine Buburuz and others.

Moonstone #53 (1994)
Editors: Talitha Clare & Robin Brooks
Cover: John Light
Work by Alex Warner, Steve Sneyd, T. Krezt, Michael Newman and others.

Mind's Eye #1 (1990)
Publisher: Sarah J Powell
Cover: ?
Work by David Vickery, Philip J Backers, Ivor C Treby and others.

Oktobyr 98 (1998)
Precinct 13 Publications
A significant horror anthology of its time by Simon Bestwick.
Cover: ?
Work by Paul Finch, Rhys Hughes, Peter Tennant, Tim Lebbon, Derek M Fox, Simon Clark, Scott Urban, P.C. Attaway, John B Ford, Simon Woodward, Joe Rattigan, Stuart Young, Stuart Hughes, Paul Pinn, Jonathan Aycliffe and others.

Krax #26 (1989)
Editor: Andy Robson
Cover: Clark Cuevas
Work by Eddie Flintoff, Johan de Wit, Steve Sneyd, John Francis Haines, John Light and others

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Odyssey #7 (1996)
I think this is just one of at least four different mags all called 'Odyssey'!
Editor: James Lecky
Cover: Wendy Down
Work by Dominic Dulley, Desmond Knight, Neil K Henderson, Paul Pinn, John Light and others.

Nyx Obscura #1 (1995)
Editor: Diana McCrary (of Euronymous)
Cover (bespoke): ?
Work by John Grey, Patricia Russo (who was in Zencore!), Lida Broadhurst (who was in Nemonymous One), Andre Scheluchin (of Wicked Mystic) and others.

Mystic Fiction Vol 2, No. 4 (1994)
Editor: Su Llewellyn
Cover: Andreas Vesalius' "De Humani Corporis Fabrica", 1543
Work by M. Turville Heitz, Henry L Lefevre, Kenneth A Kousen and others.

New Visions #1 (1989)
Editor: Adrian Hodges (of Nova SF)
Cover: Simon King
Work by Dave Cunliffe, John Light, Bruce P Baker, Dave W Hughes (of Works), David Mathew (yes, that one, very young!), Kevin Lyons (of The Scanner) and others.

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Referee between two fighting cocks.

"Look - no hands!"

Monomyth #15 (1998)
Editor: D.J. Tyrer
Cover: 'Grey Claw' by Richard Burman
Work by Richard Burman, Ash Miller, D.S. Davidson and others.

Night Terrors #1 (1996)
Editor/Publisher: D.E.Davidson
Cover: Victor J Miller, Sr.
Work by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kenneth C Goldman, Kurt Newton, Charlee Jacob, Keith Minnion, Louise Dragon, Mort Castle and others.

Next Phase Vol 5, #1 (1996)
Editor/Publisher: Kim Guarnaccia
Work by John Grey, Doug Lain, Kevin R Doyle, J.W. Donnelly, Herb Kauderer and others.

Parasol Post #17 (1998)
Mag from Leicester. Credits?

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Poddities (2000)
A Creative Tribute To Jack Finney's Novel THE BODY SNATCHERS
Edited by Suzanne Donahue
Day Off Publications - A tiny subsidiary of Summers Off Press
Cover: Jeffrey Thomas
Intro: Michael Marshall Smith
Work by Stefano Donati, Kurt Newton, Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden and others.

Oasis #78 (1996)
Published by Oasis Books

New Adventures of Starfishman 1998
Wolf's Head Press
Work by Steve Sneyd, Louise Armchair, Tim Drage and others

Almanack of the Campaign for Surreal Ale (1998)
A Republic of Parasol Publication

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"Don't waste trees!"

"I am called 'Untainted Environment' by Cathy Buburuz."

The Q Review (1997)
A Magazine of Really Short Stories
Editor and Publisher: Christine Ankerstjerne
Cover: Jacquelyn Ankerstjerne
Work by Martha A Hood, Marge Simon, Charlee Jacob, Charles M Saplak, Karen Seashore, James Dorr, Don Webb, Bruce Boston, Ken Goldman and others.

NEW DAWN FADES #14 (1995)
Editor: Paul F Cockburn
Work by John Miller, Tim M Chapman, Andrew C Ferguson and others

Passenger Pigeons #2 (1999)
Editor: Robert W Monk
Cover: ?
Work by Neil K Henderson, Stuart Young, Matthew Firth, Paul Pinn, Jon Summers, Sean Russell Friend and others.

Red Eft #2 (1994)
Editor and Publisher: Meg Smith
Work by Octavio Ramos Jr, Kurt Newton, Edward J McFadden, Brandon W Totman, Steve Sneyd, Jeffrey Thomas, Tippi N Blevins, Janet Fox, Wayne Edwards, Karen Blicker.

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A wonderful mag - 100 pages on a butterfly clip.
It works as a Small Press icon.
Copyright 1995 R David Fulcher
Cover: Alan Casey
Work by D. Ceder, Brandon W Totman, William P Robertson, James Miller, John Grey, Denise Dumars, Sue Storm, Kurt Newton and many others.

Night Owl's Newsletter 1995
Publisher: Debbie Jordan
Cover: Benita Epstein

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Pirate Writings #2 (1993)
Pirate Writings Publishing: Edward J McFadden
Cover: Cathy Shanks
Work by G.F. O'Sullivan, Pam Chillemi-Yeager, Herb Kauderer, Wayne Edwards and others.

The Poe Pulpit (1994)
Pirate Writings Publishing: Edward J McFadden
Stories in the Poe tradition
Work by L.P. Van Ness, David Schindler, Charlee Jacob, Gregory Nyman, Bobbi Sinha, Kurt Newton and others.

CLOTH EARS #9 (1990)
(A sort of DFL feature included!)
Editor: Andrea
Includes Simon Goalpost, Naked Raygun, Chris Warzone, Dazzy 'Chumbalina' and others.

Carnal Chameleon Quarterly #1 (1992)
The Magazine of Cathartic Catatonia
Editor: Christopher Mahoney
Cover: Norwood '92
Work by K. Huebner, Gary Lynn Morton, Del Stone Jr, William P Robertson, Holly Day, Cathy Buburuz, Marge Simon and others

Phantoms #1 (1997)
Editor: W.J. Johnson
Cover: ?
Work by Ben Leech, Stuart Hughes, Derek M Fox, John Travis, Andrew Haigh and others.

Premonitions #3 (1994)
Tony Lee (still very much on the scene today) had this mag and also The Zone (featured earlier on this thread)
A magazine of SF-Horror
Cover: Kevin Cullen
Work by Shaun Jeffrey, Wayne Edwards (of Palace Corbie), D. Sandy Nielsen, David Logan (of Grotesque), Andrew Darlington, N.D Long, William Meikle and others.

I just noticed I listed out many of the titles of these 'baser pulps' HERE in 2003.

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[Steve]

weirdmonger said:

Phantoms #1 (1997)
Editor: W.J. Johnson
Cover: ?

If I'm not very much mistaken, the cover illustration on Phantoms #1 also appears on the Coronet paperback edition of Peter Haining's black magic anthology, The Necromancers.

I'm just off to try and find my copy & see if I can find any more details...

Later

Can't find the book just now - here's a link to it on the Vault of Evil site;
vaultofevil.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/peter-haining-the-necromancers/

I'm thinking that picture is from a painting by Austin Osman Spare but I could be getting confused again...

Even later

It is Austin Osman Spare - a piece sometimes referred to as "The Elemental" although the proper title is apparently "The Vampires Are Coming"!

It also graced the cover of the first issue of Man, Myth and Magic - "An illustrated encyclopedia of the supernatural published weekly every Thursday by Purnell".
The picture is part of Kenneth Grant's collection, I'm told.

(Thanks to John Coulthart's online journal, feuilleton)

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Thanks, Steve. I remember that cover well, now you mention it. Interesting close call, that. Not sure it's the same picture. Or is there some skullduggery going on? ;D

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Now you've posted a clear picture, Steve, I think it is the same picture, slightly doctored.

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What are your favourite covers on this thread so far, peeps?

Any other small press covers posted here would also be welcome, of course.