THE DREAM ZONE #11, B5, 68pp 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 Allen Ashley, Hertzan Chimera, A.D. Dawson, David Price, Tim Groome, Paul Brownsey, Natsume Soseki, D. Harlan Wilson, Steve Redwood, and Rhys Hughes.

MATRIX #152, A4, 24pp, free to members of the British Science Fiction Association, enquire to Paul Billinger, BSFA Membership Secretary, 1 Long Row Close, Everdon, Daventry, Northants NN11 3BE (e-mail: billinger@enterprise.net). Now under the helm of Gary Wilkinson, the BSFA's news magazine covers every aspect of SF from fan funds to big press publishing schedules. If you want all your SF news in one place, with a dash of opinion to leaven the mix, then no other magazine fits the bill so completely.

ON SPEC #47: Winter 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 Michael Libling, E.L. Chen, Catherine MacLeod, Jaine Fenn, Kate Riedel, James Stephen Forrest, Susan Mayse, Holly Phillips, and Carl Sieber.

SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #216, A5, 28pp, $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.argentmoon.net/scavengers/index.htm). 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 a round-robin discussion moderated by Marge Simon on the future of art illustration.

SCAVENGER'S SCRAPBOOK January 2002, A5, 24pp, $5 from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@hotmail.com; http://www.argentmoon.net/scavengers/index.htm). 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 #95, A4, 52pp, $6:50 (2/$10; outside USA 2/$12) 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 Michael Kelly & Carol Weekes, Ed Henderson, Jennifer Crow, Tim Curran, John Herzich, Robert Laszlo, K. Laughrey Hasell, Kent Johnson, Jon C. Picciuolo, and A.R. Morlan.

TALEBONES #23, 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 Tony Daniel, Devon Monk, Carrie Vaughn, Jack Slay Jr, and James C. Glass, plus an interview with Charles de Lint.

I WAS ELVIS PRESLEY'S BASTARD LOVE-CHILD & OTHER STORIES OF ROCK'N'ROLL EXCESS by Andrew Darlington, ISBN 1-900486-17-2, B5, 224pp p/b, £13:99 (US $19:95) from Headpress, 40 Rossall Avenue, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 1JD (e-mail: david.headpress@zen.co.uk; http://www.headpress.com/). Andrew Darlington has been interviewing rock's luminaries and legends for several decades, "spurred on as a child in the late 60s by testosterone, the napalm that was Elvis and hopes to bed hippie chicks". I Was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-Child is an essential collection of his timeless and engaging interviews with rock legends and luminaries ranging from Dave Davies of the Kinks to Skin of Skunk Anansie.

FOOTSTEPS TO ALIENATION by John Light, ISBN 1-897968-14-0, A5, 24pp, £1 (US surface $4; US air $4:50) from John Light, Photon Press, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY (e-mail: photon.press@virgin.net). Sixteen black and white prints of drawings by John Light.

BAD SEED by Harry Shannon, ISBN 1-9711162-0-2, A5, 130pp p/b, $16:99 from Medium Rare Books, 9772 Harle Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92804, USA (e-mail: john@mediumrarebooks.com; http://www.mediumrarebooks.com). Reissued collection of Shannon's published short fiction, featuring 15 horror/noir stories that first appeared in Blue Murder Magazine, Terror Tales, Fear of the Dark, Unhinged and elsewhere.

SORROW by John Turi, ISBN 1-9711162-1-0, A5, 114pp p/b, $16:99 from Medium Rare Books, 9772 Harle Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92804, USA (e-mail: john@mediumrarebooks.com; http://www.mediumrarebooks.com). Seven short stories and 12 poems comprise Turi's self-published debut horror collection on the theme of suffering.

LIGHT'S LIST 2002, ISBN 1-897968-15-9, A5, 72pp, £2:50 (US surface $6; US air $7) from John Light, Photon Press, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1NY (e-mail: photon.press@virgin.net). Seminal listing (now in its 17th year of publication) of names, addresses and a brief note of interests of over 1,500 UK, US, Canadian, Australasian, European, African and Asian small press magazines publishing creative writing and artwork in English.