DATA DUMP #56, 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.

THE DREAM ZONE #10, A4, 64pp p/b, £3 (2/£5:50; USA 2/$13 cash) from Paul Bradshaw, 44 Knowles View, Holmewood Estate, Bradford BD4 9AH (e-mail: thedreamzone@btinternet.com; http://www.thedreamzone.btinternet.co.uk). A horror and dark fantasy magazine devoted to "stories into which the reader can immerse themselves completely, as if in a dream – or perhaps a nightmare!". Sending you scurrying under the covers in this edition are Paul Edwards, Kevin L. Donihe, Peter Tennant, Brendan Connell, simonlogan, Tim Groome, Robert Tamlyn, Charlie Williams, Natsume Soseki, Glen Krisch, Carlton Mellick III, Allen Ashley, and Rhys Hughes.

THE FIX #2, 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). A magazine for everyone interested in short fiction, in other words readers, not just aspiring writers. There's an in-depth interview with Ellen Datlow, plus Alan Frackelton on his favourite anthology and plenty of reviews of magazines, anthologies, novellas and collections.

FLESH & BLOOD #8, A5, 60pp, $4 (3/$11) from Jack Fisher, 121 Joseph Street, Bayville, NJ 08721, USA (e-mail: horrorjack@aol.com). Award-winning dark fantasy and horror magazine, with fiction by Mary Sass, Ioan Petropoulacos, Suzanne Donahue, Forrest Aguirre, Tracy Majka, and Jon Hodges, poetry by Nancy Bennett, Lake Vajra, Richard Gessner, Jacie Ragan, John Branseum, Sarah Jacobs, and Angel Reign, plus an interview with Tom Piccirilli.

HEADPRESS #22, ISBN 1-900486-15-6, B5, 180pp p/b, £8:99 (US $14:99) from Headpress, 40 Rossall Avenue, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1JD (e-mail: david.headpress@zen.co.uk; http://www.headpress.com/). "Bad Birds" is the theme of this issue, featuring interviews with porn star-cum-brothel girl Jeannie Rivers, novellist James Elroy, and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, plus hanging out with controversial asphyxiation-fetish filmmakers Factory 2000, superhero novelty records, a sightseer mistaken for the Virgin Mary in Antequera, a full-moon night for the girls of the stripclub, and Dead Elvis – an impersonation of The King that backfires horribly in Newcastle.

KIMOTA #15, A5, 72pp p/b, £2:99 (4/£10) from G. Hurry, 52 Cadley Causeway, Preston, Lancs PR2 3RX (e-mail: editor@kimota.co.uk; http://www.kimota.co.uk). Well-rounded selection of SF/F/H from Paul Joyce, Paul McAvoy, Hugh Cook, John Travis, Jonathan Taylor, Phil Emery, Paul Finch, Simon Woodward, and Neal Asher.

MASQUE NOIR #6, A4, 80pp, Aus$6 (US $6; UK £6) from Rod Marsden, P.O. Box 231, Corrimal, NSW 2518, Australia. A "new wave avant-garde publication", Masque Noir embraces high adventure, the glory days of the pulps, mystery, suspense, gumshoe action, horror and SF. Fiction comes from Julia Andrejeva, Don Boyd, Rod Marsden, Jens H. Altmann & Akiko Altmann, Lisa Tate, Geoff Jackson, Barbara A. Custer, Robert Steven Rhine, Micheal Hailstone, Austin J. Ford, Mark Hodgetts, Shane Griffin, Keith Rex, and Robert Scott, plus Andy Darlington on drugs and famous writers.

NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #157 and #158, A4, 24pp, $3:50 each (12/$32; Canada 12/$37; r.o.w. 12/$45) from Dragon Press, P.O. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY 10570, USA (e-mail: info@nyrsf.com; http://www.nyrsf.com). Essays, reviews and topical comment for the SF field from a thirteen-time Hugo award nominee. #157 features Greg Beatty on Ted Chiang's science magic, 'Whither SF?' – a chorus of responses, Eric Solstein samples Alfred Bester's notebooks, Graham Sleight on Bester redemolished, David Mead on Alastair Reynolds, Michael Bishop on Jonathan Carroll, Gregory Benford on John Canaday, and Philip Kaveny on T.A. Shippey, while #158 includes Candas Jane Dorsey's praise of wetlands, Michael Swanwick sailing through Earthsea, Robert Borski in search of Severian's lost sister, Tavis Alison reading Chip Delaney's private letters, Eugene Reynolds journeying to the highest altar, and Matthew Appleton revisiting the future of war.

NOT ONE OF US #26, A5, 52pp, $5:50 (3/$13:50) from John Benson, 12 Curtis Road, Natick, MA 01760, USA. Horror and dark fantasy exploring the concept of 'otherness' from every fictional angle with stories by Lawrence Barker, Terry Black, Sarah Wright, Lawrence M. Schoen, Sonya Taaffe, Simon Wood, Bruce Boston, and S.C. Lofton.

ON SPEC #46: Fall 2001, A5, 116pp p/b, Can$5:95 (4/Can$22; USA 4/US$22; r.o.w. 4/US$27) from On Spec, Box 4727, Edmonton, AB T6E 5G6, Canada (e-mail: onspec@earthling.net; http://www.icomm.ca/onspec). Award-winning SF and fantasy magazine, with fiction by Cory Doctorow, James Van Pelt, Catherine MacLeod, Vivan Zenari, Holly Phillips, Robert H. Beer, Janine Cross, Elizabeth Matson, Lena DeTar, and Steve Mohn.

ROADWORKS #12, A5, 120pp p/b, £5 (2/£9:50; USA 2/$15; r.o.w. 2/£12:50) from Trevor Denyer, 7 Mountview, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN (e-mail: tdenyer@ntlworld.com; http://www.roadworksweb.free-online.co.uk). The latest issue of this "imaginative fiction" magazine has stories from Cliff Burns, Andrew Hook, Eoin Henderson, Neil Williamson, Steve Redwood, Martin Owton, Tim Nickels, Mark Howard Jones, Joel Lane, Paul A. Toth, James McConnon, Mario Petrucci, jon g, Peter Tennant, Allen Ashley, David Gullen, Alec Worley, Andrew Roberts, and Michael Kelly.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #212, A5, 24pp, $2:50 (12/$24; Canada 12/$23; r.o.w. 12/$29) 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 Lorin Emery on the postmodern damsel in distress.

SCHEHERAZADE #22, A5, 44pp, £2:80 (4/£9; outside UK 4/£11:50) from Scheherazade, 14 Queens Park Rise, Brighton BN2 2ZF (e-mail: liz@shez.fsnet.co.uk; http://www.shez.fsnet.co.uk). A magazine of fantasy and science fiction incorporating the gothic, the magical and the mythological, with fiction from Sandra Unerman, Lyn McConchie, Jean Lorrain, Marise Morland, and Stepan Chapman, plus an interview with Neil Gaiman.

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE #28, A4, 68pp, £3:75 (6/£19:50; Europe 6/£22:50; r.o.w. 6/£25:50) from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB (e-mail: ttapress@aol.com; http://www.ttapress.com); USA $6 (6/$30) from TTA Press, P.O. Box 219, Olyphant, PA 18447, USA (e-mail: we21011@earthlink.net). "Extraordinary new fiction" from Tim Lees, Martin Simpson, James Van Pelt, Pras Stillman, Ryan Van Cleave, Alexander Glass, and Douglas Smith, plus an interview with Graham Joyce and a profile of filmmaker Tim Burton.

THE MUSE-TRAP by Bella Basura, A5, 116pp hand-bound paperback, £12 from Pixie Inc, P.O. Box 5454, Leicester, LE5 0WW (e-mail: bella@pixie-inc.demon.co.uk; http://www.pixie-inc.demon.co.uk). Having abandoned the Gregorian Calendar as "an utterly random division of time", Bella Basura takes us on a journey through her "alphabetically deranged chaos of memory", initially in search of two lost lunar months of consciousness. She trawls the inner realms, making contact with mythological Muse-Entities, exorcising ansafones and gazing at a checkered tablecloth, and attemping to make sense of a mysterious orange pamphlet by the notorious Doc. Gordon Tripp, a national celebrity and lecturer in Altered States of Consciousness...

NECROTOURIST by Bella Basura, A5, 32pp, £3 from Pixie Inc, P.O. Box 5454, Leicester, LE5 0WW (e-mail: bella@pixie-inc.demon.co.uk; http://www.pixie-inc.demon.co.uk). Reports of journeys to morbid locations, including the catacombs of Paris, megalithic burial chambers in the south of Spain, and Trotsky's house in Mexico City.

ARTICULATIONS II by Jean Dark, A5, 32pp, £3 from Pixie Inc, P.O. Box 5454, Leicester, LE5 0WW (e-mail: jean@pixie-inc.demon.co.uk; http://www.pixie-inc.demon.co.uk). A short collection of non-fiction including reports from recent occult, mind tools and labyrinth conferences.

DOMESTIC BOOKBINDING by Jean Dark, A5, 36pp, £2.50 from Pixie Inc, P.O. Box 5454, Leicester, LE5 0WW (e-mail: jean@pixie-inc.demon.co.uk; http://www.pixie-inc.demon.co.uk). A hands-on tutorial on satisfying and economical bindings to make in your own home. Ideal for small self-publishers, zinesters and pamphleteers, this is a fascinating insight into how to adapt the ancient art of hand-bookbinding to the modern sensibility.

SMOKING MIRROR BLUES by Ernest Hogan, ISBN 1-877655-37-6, A5, 212pp p/b, $12 from Wordcraft of Oregon, P.O. Box 3235, La Grande, OR 97850, USA (e-mail: wordcraft@oregontrail.net; http://www.oregontrail.net/~wordcraft). With the help of bio-nanochips, a computer-resurrected Tezcatlipoca runs wild through futuristic Hollywood. The Aztec warrior/wizard god adapts well to the brave new world, and soon gets back to his old business of creating chaos and taking control... This is Nebula-nominated Hogan's third novel, and follows the internnationally-acclaimed Cortez on Jupiter and High Aztech.

PUSSY POW WOW by Mr Pottymouth, ISBN 1-9706981-1-9, 86pp p/b, enquire to Chronoplastics, P.O. Box 73094, Providence, RI 02907, USA (e-mail: contacts@chronoplatics.com; http://www.chronoplastics.com). Featuring the work of rock band Arab On Radar's frontman Mr Pottymouth, this book contains over 90 pages of sexually explicit and depraved lyrics, poetry and writings. Candid and emotionally charged, the works are intended to challenge the limits of the reader's morals, emotions and sexual development.

HORRORS OF THE HOLY by Staci Layne Wilson, ISBN 1-9675185-1-2, A5, 124pp p/b, $12:95 from Running Free Press, P.O. Box 6778, Eastview, San Pedro, CA 90734-6778, USA (e-mail: staci@staciwilson.com; http://www.staciwilson.com/horror.html). Rock stars, mercenaries, vampires, nerds, cowboys and tooth fairies all ultimately pay for their sins in this new collection of 13 darkly humorous short stories.

OF THE FLESH: DANGEROUS NEW FICTION edited by Greg Wharton, ISBN 0-9710846-0-2, A5, 264pp p/b, $16:95 from Suspect Thoughts Press, 1402 West Foster #2, Chicago, IL 60640, USA (e-mail: gregw@suspectthoughts.com; http://www.suspectthoughts.com). From the publisher of the Suspect Thoughts webzine comes a new collection of erotica that explores how dangerous sex can be – from the use of sex as a weapon to the use of weapons in sex, how the human body can be dangerous, how thinking about sex can be dangerous, and how following your own desire can be dangerous. Featuring among the 20 contributors to this accomplished anthology are Hertzan Chimera, M. Christian, Maxim Jakubowski, Cara Bruce, Jamie Joy Gatto, and Simon Sheppard.

DREAMBERRY WINE October/November 2001, A4, 16pp, enquire to Mike Don, Dreamberry Wine, 233 Maine Road, Manchester M14 7WG. Comprehensive second-hand SF/F/H catalogue that also combines reviews, letters and publishing news and, in this issue, an interview with Cecilia Dart-Thornton.