CRIMEWAVE #5: DARK BEFORE DAWN, B5, 132pp p/b, £5:99 (4/£22; Europe 4/£26; r.o.w. 4/£30) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $12 (4/$40) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). 100% pure crime fiction from across the full spectrum of the genre, with stories by Sean Doolittle, Antony Mann, Brady Allen, Shelley Costa, Jason Gould, Michel Faber, Andrew Humphrey, Tim Casson, Ceri Jordan, and Christopher Fowler.

DATA DUMP #55, A5, 4pp, 70p/$2 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 10¢ or 50¢) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Continuing Steve's series of factsheets on genre poetry with a general summary of recent anthologies, articles and news, plus further updates on the influence of genre ideas on opera and rock music.

DRAGON'S BREATH #69, A4, 4pp, available for one SAE per issue (12/£2:50; Europe 12/£4; r.o.w. 12/£5:50) or free by e-mail from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ (e-mail: pigasus.press@virgin.net; http://freespace.virgin.net/pigasus.press/index.htm). Capsule reviews of SF/F/H small press and media-related publications from around the world.

THE FIX #1, B5, 40pp, £2:50 (6/£12; Europe 6/£15; r.o.w. 6/£18) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $5 (6/$24) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). Zene has evolved into The Fix, a magazine for everyone interested in short fiction, in other words readers, not just aspiring writers. There's still small press publishing news (dead magazine, new magazines, etc), but the bulk of the magazine is now reviews of magazines, anthologies, novellas and collections.

HANDSHAKE #46, A4, 2pp, free for SAE from J.F. Haines, 5 Cross Farm, Station Road, Padgate, Warrington WA2 0QG. Market information and news of SF-poetry-related events, plus poetry from Sean Russell Friend, Giovanni Malito, John Light, Geoff Stevens, and Joseph Benjamin.

HORROR GARAGE #3, A4, 72pp, $6.66 (2/$10) from Under the Volcano Inc., P.O. Box 53, Nesconset, NY 11767, USA (e-mail: horrorgarage@aol.com; http://www.darkecho.com/horrorgarage). A high quality horror magazine that manages to combine top-rate writers with a fascination for psychotronic B-movie excess. This issue's fiction comes from John Shirley, Kim Newman, Peter Crowther, Don Webb, and Debbie MacGuffie, plus an interview with China Mieville, and a tour of haunted New Jersey.

INDIGENOUS FICTION #8, A5, 80pp, enquire to I.F. Publishing, P.O. Box 2078, Redmond, WA 98073-2078, USA. A magazine of weird and offbeat fiction that's garnered something of a cult reputation. Editor Sherry Decker's taking a sabbatical for a year so make the most of this issue while you can, with stories by Stephanie Dickinson, Ryan NeuCollins, Ann K. Schwader, F. Brett Cox, John Urbancik, Loren Rhoads, Larry Crist, and Jack Fisher, with poetry by Thomas Zimmerman, Adam Phillips, Mike Wilson, and Jim Moore.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #209, A5, 24pp, $2:50 (12/$24; Canada 12/$23; r.o.w. air 12/$29; r.o.w. surface 12/$20) from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@hotmail.com; http://www.jlgiftsshop.com/scav/index.html). Monthly newsletter for SF/F/H/mystery writers and artists with an interest in the small press. Market news, letters and reviews from the USA, UK and elsewhere, plus an interview with Indigenous Fiction editor Sherry Decker, and fiction by Lyn McConchie.

SCAVENGER'S SCRAPBOOK June 2001, A5, 24pp, $5 from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.jlgiftsshop.com/scav/index.html). Twice-a-year round-up of market information in the genres of SF, fantasy, horror and mystery from Scavenger's Newsletter, with capsule listings providing an overview of the field and making this a useful small press directory.

SPACE AND TIME #94, A4, 52pp, $6:50 (2/$10; outside USA 2/$11) from Space and Time, 138 W. 70th Street (4B), New York, NY 10023-4468, USA (http://www.cith.org/space&time.html). A rich mixture of fiction and poetry covering all aspects of the fantasy genre – science fiction, supernatural horror, swords and sorcery, and the unclassifiable – from Scott D. Pomfret, Pete D. Manison, Catherine Scherer, Carl Frederick, Pamela Troy, Sophie Hosandir, Stefano Donati, Marshall Moore, P.M.F. Johnson, and M. Christian, plus an interview with James Morrow.

TALEBONES #21, A5, 88pp p/b, $5:00 (4/$18; Canada 4/$22; r.o.w. 4/$28) from Talebones Magazine, 5203 Quincy Ave SE, Auburn, WA 98092, USA (e-mail: talebones@nventure.com; http://www.fairwoodpress.com). SF and dark fantasy in a smart digest format with full colour cover, and winner of the Genre Writers Association Award. This issue's fiction comes from Daniel E. Blackston, Steve Rasnic Tem, Elisabeth De Vos, Carrie Vaughn, Trey R. Barker, Bruce Taylor, and Webb Harris Jr, plus poetry by Bruce Boston & Marge Simon, J.W. Donelly, Mary Soon Lee, Darrell Schweitzer, and Keith Allen Daniels, and an interview with Peter Straub.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #27, A4, 68pp, £3:25 (6/£18; Europe 6/£21; r.o.w. 6/£24) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $6 (6/$28) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Mike O'Driscoll, Joel Lane, Robert Guffey, Andrew Hook, Paul Meloy, and Muriel Gray, plus interviews with Muriel Gray and Simon Clark, and a profile of film maker Andrei Tarkovsky.

AMERICAN GRAVEYARDS by Ray Nayler, ISBN 095269476X, 132pp B5 paperback, £6 (Europe £7; r.o.w. £8) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $12 from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). First of a series of "Crimewave Specials" designed to publish longer novellas and short novels by themselves, but in the same format as TTA Press's Crimewave magazine. This inaugural volume involves a private investigator who's on his last case and his last legs. The murderer he's been hunting all his adult life is just one step ahead of him, but he must unravel a nasty web of conspiracy and murder in the Mojave desert before he can exact his final revenge.

WISHHOBBLER by Francis O'Dowd, ISBN 0-9538806-0-5, 153pp paperback, £4:50 (USA $5.99) from Jam Jar Lurker & Son, P.O. Box 8883, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire ML5 3WF (e-mail: enquiries@jamjarlurker.com; http://www.jamjarlurker.com). This debut novel from Scottish writer O'Dowd is a dark fairy tale of a young girl who, struggling to cope with a home background of poverty and monsters, finds herself at the centre of a deadly confrontation.