DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #62, A5, 24pp, $3 (6/$12; outside USA 6/$15) from David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404, USA (e-mail: dragontea@earthlink.net; http://home.earthlink.net/~dragontea/index.html). A poetry magazine that specialises in experimental forms and content, and fantastic horror in particular. This issue features poetry from Bruce Boston & Marge Simon, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Alec Kowalczyk, Gary Every, Darrell Schweitzer, Gloundan Smorpian, Lucy A.E. Ward, Robert K. Wooten, Ian Watson, Dee Rimbaud, Blair H. Allen, Erin Donahoe, Christina Sng, Ann K. Schwader, and Mike Allen. THE DREAM ZONE #12, B5, 116pp 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 D. Harlan Wilson, Robin Gilbert, Peter Tennant, Paul Pinn, James Ryan, Patricia Tyrrell, Gaie Sebold, Allen Ashley, Steve Eldritch, Martin Cowap, Kristine Ong Muslim, Rhys Hughes, David Mathew & M.F. Korn, and Michael Pendragon. NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION #166 and #167, A4, 24pp, $3:50 each (12/$32; Canada 12/$37; r.o.w. 12/$48) 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 fourteen-time Hugo award nominee. Issue #166 brings Don Webb on R.A. Lafferty's magic, Tavis Allison on Ernest Hogan's sorcery, Claude Lalumiere on Richard A. Lupoff, Steven Silver on Anne McCaffrey's Pern politics, and Paul Kincaid on Tony Daniel's Metaplanetary, while #167 has Ariel Hameon on John Shirley, John Clute on Jules Verne, Howard Hendrix on Alan Dean Foster, Steve Mohn on Doris Lessing, and David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer and Peter Watts on Hard SF. SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #221, A5, 24pp, $2 from Janet Fox, 833 Main, Osage City, KS 66523-1241, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@hotmail.com; http://66.39.35.131/scavengers/). 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 Jack Fisher and fiction by Lawrence Barker.
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