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Post by dem bones on Feb 20, 2008 22:15:34 GMT
David Cowperthwaite & Jeffrey Dempsey (eds.) - Dark Dreams #5 (1987) Front cover: Dallas C. Goffin Editorial
Derek Stanford - The Headless Nymph Jessica Amanda Salmonson - Puppet (verse) Simon Clark - Two Lessons A. F. Kidd - Black Dog Graham Andrews - Eventide Roger Johnson - "As Our Rarer Monsters Are" Dwight E. Humphries - Skeleton Steel (verse) Chris Barnham - The Mirror Dave Reeder - The Wind (verse) Dwight E. Humphries - Night And Moon (verse)*Other artwork: Dallas Goffin, Dave Carson, Jon Bush, Jim Garrison, Alan Hunter, A. F. Kidd, Alfred Klosterman, Nicholas Blinko, Allen Koszowski, Steve Skwarek* David Cowperthwaite & Jeffrey Dempsey (eds.) - Dark Dreams #6 (1988) Front cover: Alan HunterBack: A. F. Kidd Mary Ann Allen (Rosemary Pardoe) - The Cambridge Beast Conrad Williams - Dirty Water Norman Boothroyd - Dreaming (verse) Mark Morris - Homeward Bound Steve Rasnic Tem - Dark Shapes In The Road Dallas Clive Goffin - Nocturne (verse) Alan J. Lear - Vacant Possession Steven Hutchinson - The Arrival Of Mourning (verse) D. F. Lewis - Blasphemy Fitzworth Felicia Hemans - Druid Chorus (verse) Russell Flinn - Housewarming Steven Hutchinson - Face Masques (verse)
Contributors*Other artwork: Stella Hender, Dallas Goffin, Dave Carson, Jim Garrison, Alan Hunter, A. F. Kidd, Alfred Klosterman, Allen Koszowski* ***** Thought I'd give this its own thread as it's a neat mag and I think I've maybe some more issues waiting to be found if i turn over this junkyard. Verse isn't much my thing (don't really understand it), but the fiction is often horribly fun and Derek Stanford's The Headless Nymph is one letter short of perhaps the perfect title! some sample stories (more to follow, i hope, as there are plenty more good ones): Mary Ann Allen - The Cambridge Beast: Sarah, Jackie, Heather and narrator Penny Cole enjoy night-climbing on the site of Cambridge University - until they take on King's College Chapel and one of the gargoylesque King's Beasts chases Sarah from the parapet. "It was maggoty white and very like an enormous dog ... the smell was revolting, like something from a graveyard ... and just as if it was made of stone, it was sort of eaten away and decayed ..." When, some years later, a student is killed scaling the chapel, it seems the malevolent hound has grown stronger ... Alan J. Lear - Vacant Possession: Every day Ian, unemployed and growing ever more depressed and frustrated, watches a strange man stood under a beech tree on the pavement "quivering with impatience". His wife, Helen, fails to notice when the usurper takes her husband's place and Ian is left stood under the tree gazing up at the house ... D. F. Lewis - Blasphemy Fitzworth: Described as "a cross between Dickens and Lovecraft!". Blasphemy the cats-meat man explains to little Lettuce how, when he worked at a hospice, he cheated the devils of some of their beloved corpse-flesh and mixed it in with his own unsavoury product. Mark Morris - Homeward Bound: David Jessel locks his shop for the night and heads home to his Guiness and peanuts. He's nervous of the skinheads and football fans loitering on the streets, but what really frightens him is the unshakable belief he's being watched by something not of the living ...
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Post by troo on Feb 27, 2008 11:16:14 GMT
To quote a small child once overheard in Soho: "Mummy, Mummy, is that a she-he?"
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Post by nosferatu on Dec 3, 2013 17:02:56 GMT
Just adding to this thread since i've found a few copies. Dark Dreams - Edited by David Cowperthwaite & Jeffery Dempsey Published in Liverpool from the late 80's to the early 90's. The last issue (No9.) was published in 1992. A few notable contributers, including Mary Ann Allen, David Sutton & D.F. Lewis. Issue One - Edited by David Cowperthwaite & Jeffery Dempsey (30 Pages) Nic Howard - Underhill Dave Reeder - The Late Visitor (verse) Keith Jones - Religion in Efrah Jeff Dempsey - The Hanged Man (verse) David Cowperthwaite - P'tath (verse) Dave Reeder - Silence (verse) Mark Valentine - The Grave of Anir John Gale - Three Shadows and Cuth Front Cover by Dave Midgely
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Post by nosferatu on Dec 3, 2013 17:04:13 GMT
Issue Two - Edited by David Cowperthwaite & Jeffery Dempsey (34 Pages) Barry M. Radburn & David Reeder - Shambler in the Shadows Keith Jones - The Inn on the Forest Road (verse) Graham Andrews - 'I' Joel Lane - The Brand Ruskin Bond - A Face in the Night Stuart Watts - Red Wine (verse) Steve Sneyd - Darkman Comes Home Mary Ann Allen - Hold Fast Simon Clark - A Letter from John Shaw Dave Reeder - Images of a Mayan Dawn (verse) Front Cover by Dave Carson
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Post by nosferatu on Dec 3, 2013 17:04:59 GMT
Issue Three - Edited by David Cowperthwaite & Jeffery Dempsey (34 Pages) Mark Valentine - The Guardians of the Guestroom Nic Howard - The Dark Streets Geoffrey K. Nelson - The Late Train Jessica Amanda Salmonson - Hecate (verse) Dallas Clive Goffin - In the Hall of Hephnek Steve Sneyd - Exorcism Manual (verse) Anonymous - Off the Record (or, The Recording Angel) Roger Johnson - From the Desert Fiona Macleod - Orchil (verse) Ruskin Bond - The Most Potent Medicine of All Fiona Macleod - The Stars of Dusk (verse) David A. Johnstone - The Mirror (verse) David Malpass - The Therianthropus Fragment Front Cover by Steve Skwarek
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Post by nosferatu on Dec 3, 2013 17:05:46 GMT
Issue Four - Edited by David Cowperthwaite & Jeffery Dempsey (34 Pages) Peter A. Hough - Snowman John Francis Haines - First, Find Your Dragon (verse) Dallas Clive Goffin - The City of Ghouls t. Winter-Damon - As Daylight Fades (verse) Steve Sneyd - Garden of Usher (verse) Dave Reeder - There is a Way (verse) Simon G. Gosden - The Night Bird David G. Rowlands - Traveller's Fare David Sutton - The Dead Field Stuart Watts - Bad Boys and Vengeful Toys (verse) Front Cover by Mark Dunn
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2013 20:27:44 GMT
Thanks for adding these, nosferatu. It's a shame they stopped numbering them after issue 4, as that would have prevented me attributing the wrong ones to the pair up top of thread. Have since found a copy of the real number 7. David Cowperthwaite & Jeffrey Dempsey (eds.) - Dark Dreams #7 (Feb., 1989) Dallas C. Goffin Malcolm Furnass - The Cure Jessica Amanda Salmonson - A Rain Of Spiders Norman Boothroyd - Suicide (verse) Peter Bayliss - Killing Time Ramsey Campbell - The Drowned Car (verse) David G. Rowlands - The Elbow Joel Lane - I Said The Sparrow Dave Reeder - Dark Dreams (verse) Ron Weighell - The Lycurgus Cup Norman Boothroyd - Sorcery (verse) Fiona McLeod - The Hills Of Ruel
The Contributors
Artists: Dallas Goffin, Roger Gerberding, Dave Carson, Ross Caverley, Alfred Klosterman, Nick Maleret, Jim Garrison, Anonymous.
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Post by nosferatu on Dec 4, 2013 7:47:34 GMT
Thanks for adding these, nosferatu. It's a shame they stopped numbering them after issue 4, as that would have prevented me attributing the wrong ones to the pair up top of thread. Have since found a copy of the real number 7. I have both 5 & 6 and they are numbered, just look in the bottom left corner of the cover.
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Post by nosferatu on Dec 4, 2013 9:00:16 GMT
Here's a booklet of rather poor verse that comes from the same group, Published by Crimson Altar Press. Hearts of Darkness - Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre Edited by Nic Howard Chuck Connor - Neo Magician David Cowperthwaite - The Diary - The Picture - Loathe - Ezendor - The Shadow of Yoth-Kharne Jeff Dempsey - The Attic - Demons John F. Haines - Impact - Incident in Room 874 - The Kill Nic Howard - When They Shall Return - He Shall Rise Again - Dark Forces at Work - Salastor Michael Newman - Witches - That Wind Again Dave Reeder - The Stars of Morn - Starry Dreams Steve Sneyd - A Gypsy Warning - A Passing Thought - Dracula's Mother Front Cover by C.F. Langeueld (Appologies if incorrect as it's not credited and i'm taking the name from the signature)
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Post by nosferatu on Dec 4, 2013 9:08:59 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Dec 4, 2013 9:59:24 GMT
Thanks for adding these, nosferatu. It's a shame they stopped numbering them after issue 4, as that would have prevented me attributing the wrong ones to the pair up top of thread. Have since found a copy of the real number 7. I have both 5 & 6 and they are numbered, just look in the bottom left corner of the cover. Yeah, that'll be me. Blind as a bat. David Cowperthwaite's next publication was the Dark Dreams spin-off, By The Yellow Moonrock, and, neither fantasy or poetry being my thing, still have no idea why I bought a copy and not Dark Dreams #8. - an occult detective special, no less. For the record. David Cowperthwaite (ed.) - By The Yellow Moonrock: Tales of Fantasy (1988) Alan Hunter David Cowperthwaite - Preface.
Norman Boothroyd - Doom Of Ogg Fiona Macleod - By The Yellow Moonrock Dallas Clive Goffin - Pillar Of Fear Barry Pain - Exchange Ian Mundell - Liselle Felicia Hemans - Ulla, or The Abjuration (verse) Felicia Hemans - The Shade Of Theseus (verse)
Illustrations: Dallas Clive Goffin, Nicholas Blinko (illustrating Barry Pain's The Moon-Slave)
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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2015 18:43:27 GMT
Fiction from Dark Dreams #7Malcolm Furnass - The Cure: Mr. Nevil, an easygoing teacher at a boy's board school, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The torture of watching him dying by inches proves too much for devoted wife Beth who packs her bags. That same night, Mr. Nevil meets a vagrant who looks seventy but claims to be much older. Nevil accepts the offer of a drink. Whatever's in the bottle works wonders on his tumour. But even as he regains his health, so those around him - colleagues, pupils, even a stray hang-glider - lose theirs. Permanently. Jessica Amanda Salmonson - A Rain Of Spiders: They're huge, black and hairy and fall from the skies while the city is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Kahmesa the Terrible's death! Peter Bayliss - Killing Time: At the exact moment his father died some years ago, the hands of the grandfather clock stopped moving, and Jethro prays they stay that way. For in his recurring nightmare, with each tick, his father's mouldering corpse crawls from the grave and makes its way home. Jethro has no wish to see what greets his mother when she opens the door to .... it. David G. Rowlands - The Elbow: A century-dead Abbot dispenses just desserts to a treacherous Dean in final recorded Father Dermot O'Connor case-file.
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Post by ropardoe on Jan 27, 2021 9:58:57 GMT
Sadly, I heard a couple of days ago that Jeff Dempsey, co-editor of Dark Dreams, has died. He had encephalitis complicated by the virus. This is a major shock - I didn’t even know he was ill. Although we mostly lost touch over the years, he’d stayed a Ghosts & Scholars subscriber and we exchanged Christmas cards. I was very fond of Jeff.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 27, 2021 21:06:53 GMT
Sadly, I heard a couple of days ago that Jeff Dempsey, co-editor of Dark Dreams, has died. He had encephalitis complicated by the virus. This is a major shock - I didn’t even know he was ill. Although we mostly lost touch over the years, he’d stayed a Ghosts & Scholars subscriber and we exchanged Christmas cards. I was very fond of Jeff. Sorry to hear this, Ro. Had some dealings with Jeff during the early days of the Ghost Story Society, struck me as a pleasant, level-headed guy who loved the genre. And, of course, he had a big hand in producing such glorious fanzines and newsletters. (I had only just posted an item from The Ghost Story Newsletter before you informed us of the sad news). RIP.
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Post by humgoo on Aug 5, 2023 14:25:22 GMT
David Cowperthwaite & Jeffrey Dempsey (eds.) - Dark Dreams #8 (1990)
Dallas Clive Goffin (front: Seabury Quinn's "The Poltergeist"; back: William Hope Hodgson's "The Whistling Room")
Mark Valentine - The Effigies D. F. Lewis - Country Dusk David G. Rowlands - Spring Drive Dallas Clive Goffin - A Minstrel Among the Merpeople Rick Kennett - Strange Fruit Donna R. Phillips - The Greeter Mark Valentine - After the Darkness
Despite the "Occult Detective Special!" banner on the cover, only four stories (I omit the verse in the TOC) involve occult detectives: Valentine's two Connoisseur tales, and the ones by Rowlands and Kennett. Mark Valentine - The Effigies: The Connoisseur makes his debut by investigating what ails Austin Blake, the ceramic artist whose work is sought after by every cool and rich person in London but who has stopped producing new stuff since moving to a remote cottage in Herefordshire. Turns out Blake has been working hard, it's just that the clay he works on forms itself into hideous, tormented shapes of its own accord. An evil wishing well is to blame, and the Connoisseur must "fight water with water". David G. Rowlands - Spring Drive: Every hobby has its dark, ghostly side. Ted Jolly is a travelling salesman and a collector of pre-war model trains, and many of his finds come from Digby Trace, who despises electric trains and only deals with spring-driven models. When Digby dies, he becomes a sort of vampire whose source of vitality is these very springs, much at the expense of his wife and son, who wake up every night unconsciously to wind the engines for him! Ted has to act soon or mother and son will die of exhaustion, so he enlists the help of Schneiderman & Murray, occult agency in Marylebone.
Rick Kennett - Strange Fruit: Ernie Pine, "the reluctant ghost-hunter", is buying some books of true ghost stories in a second-hand bookshop. Seeing his choice of reading matter, the owner chats him up, and finally reveals that his little shop has been for some time haunted by a poltergeist, which he supposes to be the ghost of a dead burglar who tried to rob the shop. After giving the owner a lecture on the difference between ghosts and poltergeists, Pine offers to stay overnight to see what causes the disturbances. An unexpected manifestation is awaiting him. Filed under "The Malice of Inanimate Objects ".
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