Small Press Cover Ark

[weirdmonger]

The cover of the 1993 Palace Corbie above is interesting in the light of later events: 'A magazine of personal terror(ism)'?

Anyway, I'm having another short rest to allow other contributors and comments to this thread.


Please don't forget the Ark's VAMPY CREW thread!

[weirdmonger]

Twisted #6 (1991)
This thread started with a mag called TWISTED. Well, here's an earlier different mag altogether!
Not sure if this was its last issue or not.
Cover: Allen Koszowski
Contents of this issue in detail posted HERE some time ago.
Editor: Christine Hoard

Strix #5 (1997)
I have six issues of this lovely horror mag, up to #17 in 1999 when it may have finished.
Run by the incomparable Sue Phillips and Anna Franklin.
Cover has the signature 'T. Moss'
This issue has work by Peter Tennant, John Harrison, Tony Gent and others.

[carolinec]

I was just thinking that's a wonderful cover for that issue of Twisted, and then I saw it was Allen K. He's a brilliant artist.

[weirdmonger]

Thanks, Caroline. Two pairs for the Ark today:

Ah Pook Is Here #5 (1994)
Mastermind: Jon Summers
Eclectically dark.
Cover: ?
Contains work by Robert W Howington, Richard May, Geoff Stevens (of Purple Patch), Stephen Thorne and others

Alternaties #13 (1993)
Editor: Mark Rose
Front cover: Desmond Knight (see also 'The Stygian Dreamhouse')
This contained my story ‘Salustrade’ that was chosen by Karl Edward Wagner for the last of my five consecutive appearances in YBHS (brag brag!)
Also work by Andy Cox, Fiona Horspool and others.

[weirdmonger]

Aberrations #35 (1995)
A long-running mag of the nineties.
I recall this mag was originally called 'Abberations'!
This cover: Mark Grosskopf
Managing Editor: Richard Blair (Tony’s brother?)
Contains work by William Orem, Kent Brewster, Virginia Kidd, interview with Neil Gaiman plus more.

Agog #2 (1988)
The speech bubble says: ‘Could I interest you in a literary magazine?’
Cover signed ‘Tony Bulmer’
I recall the publisher was the legendary Ed Jewasinki (?)
This issue contains work by Iain Pigg, Nicola Batty, Ian Gideon, Pete Jeffery and others.
My story in it is actually entitled ‘D.F. Lewis’ by DF Lewis!

[redbrain]

I was in that issue of Agog - but wish I'd been in the Aberrations instead.

[dem]

I'm building a raft out of Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, Des - I knew it would come in useful for something - so if you could see your way to parking the Ark off the coast of our Godforsaken Polynesian island I'd be obliged ....

Just the one for the time being.

Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton (eds.) - Fantasy Tales # 16 (Winter, 1986)

J. K. Potter: Eyeteeth

Dennis Etchison - The Olympic Runner The search for her daughter took her deeper into a world of confusion
Karl Edward Wagner - Manly Wade Wellman: A tribute to the Weird Tales veteran
Manly Wade Wellman - The White Road (verse)
Richard Christian Matheson - Red He had to go back and collect it all
Peter Tremayne - The Singing Stone They discovered a key which would unlock the secrets of the Universe
Hugh B. Cave - After The Funeral Bizarre revelations in an attic
David Case - Twins They were joined by a supernatural force
Josephs Sherman - Zerail Could the enchantress trust her barbarian apprentice?
Christina Kiplinger - Eradication's Rise (verse)
George A. McIntyre - Our Christmas Spirit A Yuletide surprise awaits an unlucky family
Samantha Lee - Bon Appetit on other worlds, make sure you read the menu carefully!

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If you're especially unfortunate, I might have more mindless drivel to post about this at a later date as it's a storming issue. The return from the wilderness of David Case is cause for celebration alone but there's also a modern classic (I mean it, maaan) from Richard Christian Matheson - all two pages of it. Then there's shudder pulp veteran Hugh B. Cave's revelation of what happened After The Funeral when the deceased Reverend's son stumbled upon his fanatical father's secret porno stash - and far, far worse. I don't recall the Tremayne and Etchison stories offhand but I'm sure they were tops.

That Aberrations cover is a bit good, BTW.

[weirdmonger]

admin said:

if you could see your way to parking the Ark off the coast of our Godforsaken Polynesian island I'd be obliged ....

'Parking the Ark' is a common uncouth expression where I live in Clacton. And it's nothing to do with Thames Barges!
des

(Winter) Chills

'Dementia 13' & 'Aklo'

Vampy Crew

[weirdmonger]

I'm bored with Parking the Ark; I'm setting off again; but I'll keep an eye out for Dem's raft meanwhile.

Two pairs today!

Back Brain Recluse #11 (1988)
A major original fiction mag that, in theory, is still going via the BBR Small Press Catalogue.
Mastermind: Chris Reed
Cover: Kaiser Bill.
Contents include work by Lyle Hopwood, Mark Samuels, Wayne Allen Sallee and others. (Contained the first publication of the story 'Weirdmonger' and the most incredible artwork perpetrated for one of my stories (Dallas Goffin)).

Auslander #2 (1995)
Editors/Publishers: Alyson Freegard and Peter Jamieson Sinclair
A neat artifact.
Cover: Alyson Freegard
Contains work by: Jason Gould, Geoff Jackson, Rhys Hughes and others.

Auguries #17 (1993)
A long-running, delightful mag of late eighties and early nineties. The first mag (even before 'Dagon' #26 in 1989) to do a sort of special DFL feature!
The one above is possibly the last issue, however?
Mastermind: Nik Morton who also did the above cover.
Contains work by P Andrew Miller, Steve Sneyd, Alan Garside, Cathy Buburuz, Matthew Dickens, John M Peters (editor of the long-running 'Flickers 'n' Frames'), Robert Neilson and many others.

Overspace #10 (1990)
A wonderfully basic, long-running mag.
Editor: Sean R Friend
Front Cover: John Light (who still runs LIGHT'S LIST!)
Contains work by: Max Kerrigan, John Townsend, the inimitable Bruce P Baker, and others plus an HP Lovecraft: Wordsearch (!).

Any more for the Ark ?

[weirdmonger]

Dark Dreams (1988)
I think this is issue 6, although I can find no confirmation.
Editors: David Cowperthwaite and Jeffrey Dempsey
I seem to recall that Jeff Dempsey went on to found The Ghost Story Society
Front cover: Alan Hunter
Back Cover: AF Kidd (see Picatrix on this thread)
Contains work by Conrad Williams, Mark Morris, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dallas Clive Goffin, Alan W Lear, Russell Flinn and others.

Black Lotus #2 (1993)
I have three issues, one of which was a sort of DFL special!
Mastermind: John M Navroth
Cover: Donald W Schank
Contains work by: John Grey, Gary William Crawford, Ann K Schwader, Octavio Ramos Jr., Marie Buckner (who edited the long-running Elegia), Wendy Rathbone, t Winter-Damon, Thomas Wiloch, Jonathan Yungkans, Marge Simon and others.

[weirdmonger]

Eldritch Tales #26 1991
Well known long-running mag run by Crispin Burnham.
I'm not sure if it is still going, but Crispin is still certainly active in the field.
This cover: Audie Wiedemann
Contains work by: Bentley Little, John Grey, Roman A Ranieri, Jon L Herron, Ken Wisman, Gary A Braunbeck, Don D'Ammassa, Allen Koszowski, Andrew Darlington and many more

Elegia #1 (1991)
I have seven issues of this long-running mag, ending in 1995. Not sure if it went on after that.
Above is very first issue.
Run by Marie Buckner (though it doesn't say so).
Cover: ?
Contains work by: Anke Kriske (who was involved with Not One Of Us), Octavio Ramos Jr, Jacie Ragan, R Monk Habjan and others.

[weirdmonger]

Not One Of Us #14 (1995)
I have four issues of this acclaimed mag, ranging from 1991 to 1995.
It is still going, as far as I know!
Editor & Publisher: John Benson
Associate Editors: Anke Kriske, Tina Reigel
This cover: Alan Casey
Contains work by: Tom Piccirilli, Brandon W Totman (an editor of a mag I've forgotten but will no doubt later come up on this thread!), Steve Antczak (ditto Brandon W Totman), Kurt Newton, David C Kopaska-Merkel (mastermind of Dreams & Nightmares earlier on this thread), Thomas Deja, Wayne Edwards (editor of Palace Corbie earlier on this thread), Marge Simon and others.

Flickers 'n' Frames #12 (1991)
I have seven issues of this mag ranging from 1989 (issue 7) to 1998 (issue 28), which speaks for itself!
A great publisher of Horror stories and other stuff.
Publisher: John M Peters
This cover: Alan Hunter
Contains work by Tony Lee (editor of The Zone earlier on this thread), Jim Steel, Graham Masterton, Kerry Earl, Anthony North (editor of Rattler's Tale), John Light, Dallas Goffin, Mike Ashley and others.

[weirdmonger]

Works #10 (1995)
I think this may be the final issue of this well-loved mag. I have the first issue (1988) and some others.
This issue says it is: "Britain's leading SF magazine for mood orientated fiction & prose".
Editor: Dave W Hughes (a great bloke with whom I had several phone conversations about the Small Press in the late eighties and early nineties). He now runs Modern Dance - a mag about music.
This cover: Jay Hurst
Contains work by: Adrian Hodges (editor of New Visions), DM Jones, Steve Urwin, Neal Asher, Andy Cox (mastermind at TTA Press shown earlier on this thread), John Brunner, Andy Darlington, Jeff VanderMeer, Mat Coward, Bruce Boston, t Winter-Damon, Paul Pinn, Marge Simon and others.

Nox # 7 (1996)
A Journal of the Night
I have five issues of this mag ranging from 1993 to 1996. An on-line version came out in recent years.
Editor: Loretta M Accardo
This cover: Ralph A Tamborra
Contains work by: Joel Bjorling, Frater Shinobi, Charles A Gramlich, Margaret Smith, Thomas Wiloch, PJ Roberts, Kim Traub and many others.

I shall now have another rest.

[weirdmonger]

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These were the two consecutive mags of the amazing Dan Good, eventually running one of the very earliest Horror websites (Gathering Darkness). Still very active.



The Nightside #4 (1990)
Cover: John Florendo
Work by Charles L Grant, Gregory Nyman, Ian Westbrook, Dan McGee (if I recall correctly also wrote for the UK mag Dementia 13), Pam Chillemi-Yeager and others
(Back cover is by Pam Creais (not shown))

Gathering Darkness Jan/Feb 1994
This mag once did a DFL special (among many other mags)!
This cover: Debbie Ostrokolowicz
Contains work by KK Ormond, Holly Day, J.A. Stadt, Geoff Jackson and others

[weirdmonger]

razor blades (1997)
selected stories from 'Raw Nerve' magazine
RazorBlade Press (Darren Floyd)
Cover: ?
Contains work by Brian Willis, Stuart Hughes, Tim Lebbon, Rhys Hughes, Gary Greenwood, Jane Fell, and others.

Black Tears #2 (1993)
This was one of two mags run by Adam Bradley, the other being Violent Spectres.
Cover: ?
Contains work by Mark Samuels, David Logan (editor of Grotesque, which will be featured soon on this thread), Nicholas Royle, William Meikle and others.