November 1997

Update

NEWS

ORDERS FROM THE BRIDGE is a new collection of SF poetry by the well-known genre poet and editor of Handshake, J.F. Haines (£2 from Seán Russell Friend, P.O. Box 2757, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1NT).

TTA PRESS has announced a new anthology to celebrate the forthcoming millennium, and seeks story submissions from 5 to 5,000 words. Scheduled for late 1998 the volume is edited by Allen Ashley, and further details are available from him at 74 Hewison Street, Bow, London E3 2HY.

PARASIGHT is a new magazine seeking contributions of short fiction (up to 6,000 words), poetry (up to 20 lines) and illustrations of a strange fiction/gothic/horror/SF nature. Futher details from Peter Roe, Guildenstern's Children Press, 17 Kelling Close, Billingham TS23 3UJ.

BLACK ROSE is a new magazine of horror and supernatural fiction. Launching in early 1998 with a biannual schedule, the magazine seeks short stories of 2,000 to 10,000 words, as well as artists for illustration work. Potential contributors to this paying market are invited to write with IRC for full guidelines from Black Rose Publications, P.O. Box 5461, Dublin 12, Ireland.

INFINITY PLUS is a new SF/F showcase on the Internet. Located at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/iplus, Infinity Plus showcases the talents of a range of professional science fiction and fantasy authors. Exclusive material includes work by Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Jonathan Wylie, Ian R. MacLeod, and Eric Brown. For further information visit the site or contact Keith Brooke (e-mail kbrooke@iplus.zetnet.co.uk).

TANJEN have reissued Derek M. Fox's novella Recluse as a 178-page paperback with full-colour cover. With a new ISBN of 1-901530-00-0, it costs £5.99 from Tanjen Ltd, 52 Denman Lane, Huncote, Leicester LE9 3BS.

PERMEABLE PRESS has merged with CAMBRIAN PUBLICATIONS. All Permeable orders should now be directed to Andy Watson, Cambrian Publications, P.O. Box 112170, Campbell, CA 95011-2170, USA (e-mail andywatson@earthlink.net; http://www.cambrianpubs.com).


CHANGES OF ADDRESS

GLOBAL MAIL, Grove City Factory Stores, P.O. Box 1309, Grove City, PA 16127, USA.

JANUS PUBLISHING COMPANY (publishers of Black Angels by Andrew Derrett), Edinburgh House, 19 Nassau Street, London W1N 7RE.


CLOSED

AUSLANDER, 33 Alexandra Road, Gloucester GL1 3DR, closed down after issue #3.

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES, W.S.W.F., c/o Gerry Moreton, 16 Queenwood Close, Cyncoed, Cardiff CF3 7JH, closed down after issue #12.

DEATHREALM, 2210 Wilcox Drive, Greensboro, NC 27405, USA, closed down after issue #31.

PANURGE, Crooked Holme Farm Cottage, Brampton, Cumbria CA8 2AT, closed down after issue #24/25.


MagazinesReviewed

THE ALIEN HAS LANDED
#4:
A4, 32pp, enquire to SF Dept, Waterstone's Booksellers, 91 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2BW (e-mail:
thealien@dial.pipex.com). With the best-selling authors at Deansgate SF for 1996 being Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Jeff Noon and Iain M. Banks, the intended readership of this glossy in-house magazine is clearly defined. Although ultimately plugging the next blockbuster is what will keep the cashtills ringing, what sets TAHL apart from newsletters like Hodder & Stoughton's The Crystal Tower and HarperCollins's Voyager is its non-partisan stance and genuine attempts to engage its readers; what's more, you get a definite sense that the editors are also doing this because they really care about SF. There's a short story from Ramsey Campbell in this issue, while luminaries such as Stephen Baxter, Paul McAuley and Paul DiFilippo reflect on 1996, Jay Russell discusses censorship, and David J. Howe describes the highs and lows of 30 years of Dr Who.

ALIEN LANDINGS
#1:
A5, 72pp, £2:35 (6/£12) from SF Dept, Waterstone's Booksellers, 91 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2BW (e-mail:
thealien@dial.pipex.com). Alien Landings is a positive effort by the guys behind The Alien Has Landed magazine to promote the SF/F/H writers of the future. No doubt there's an element of self-interest on Waterstone's part, but if that's the case then at least it's a more long-term perspective than we're used to seeing from big business in the 1990s. But maybe I'm glamming up this first issue too much: as with TAHL, you get the sense that Alien Landings is put together by fans not accountants and, being photocopied rather than litho printed, the production's not as glossy as its big sister. The six stories reveal a catholic taste in fiction, and the quality is pretty good across the board. Particular highlights include Madeleine Finnegan's 'The Dance House', a bleak and chilling exploration of just how far a young girl will go to achieve perfection, 'A Light, Inelastic String' by Jason C. Mills, a superb piece in which a metaphysical mannequin seeks to unravel the threads of existence, and Gavin MacDonald's 'The Land of Shrinking Confectionery', a biting 90s polemic that has less to say about retro-nostalgia than the blight of social decay and the loss of childhood.

ALTERNATE WORLDS
#1:
A4, 48pp, £3 (4/£10) from Alternate Worlds, 19 Bruce Street, Rodbourne, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 2EL (e-mail:
editor@altworld.demon.co.uk), or $5 (4/$18) from R.B. Schmunk, 611 West 111th Street #26, New York, NY 10025-1811, USA. Appealing to SF fans, historians and wargamers alike, alternative histories have become something of a growth market. Favourite points of pivotal significance include Southern victory in the American Civil War and Axis victory in WWII, plus less obvious technological what-ifs like those underpinning steampunk fiction. Brian Stableford opens this issue with a comprehensive and extremely informative overview of the genre, and the magazine's centrepiece is a 16-page checklist of alternate history novels and stories, all in chronological order by date of divergence from our own timestream. That's backed up by a discussion of likely change points in history, and specific examination of the likely course of Operation Sealion, Hitler's potential invasion of Kent in 1942, and what might have happened if Thatcher had lost the 1979 election. On closer inspection, however, the initial buzz of Alternate Worlds swiftly disappears: Stableford's piece draws heavily from his existing article in the Encyclopedia of SF, and all the book reviews and all but one of the articles is material reprinted from other sources. Given the broad appeal of alternative histories, and the wealth of potential subjects for features, the lack of original material is a big disappointment, and something that will hopefully be remedied in future issues.

BANANA WINGS
#5:
A4, 60pp, and #6: A4, 66pp, available for 'the usual' from Claire Brialey, 26 Northampton Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 7HA, or Mark Plummer, 14 Northway Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 6JE (e-mail:
banana@tragic.demon.co.uk). It's a well-known fact that SF fanzines rarely contain anything to do with SF, instead preferring to talk about conventions, other fanzines, and the nature of fandom itself. Paul Kincaid hits the nail on the head in his review column in #5: "But of course, everyone prefers to talk about themselves, and so we talk about fandom." You need only look to this issue's whopping 22-page letter column, with its musings on Gestetners, the good old days of fandom, and assorted other personal anecdotes, to see this to be true. On the other hand, Kincaid also defines such self-glorification as a fanzine's most positive essence, a "glimpse of another fan's mind or life in a way which helps to tie us all together into a community." It takes more than a simple blow-by-blow recitation of events and observations to bring those glimpses to life, however: what sets Banana Wings apart as a fanzine is the knack of both editors to dramatize the moment, thereby conveying much more than the words alone communicate. Okay, so Claire's partner Noel is an easy target, but the way it's written up elevates his ongoing exploits to something more like a hybrid of Home Improvement, Friends and This Life – spot on every time.

BLACK CAT TALES
#1:
A5, 52pp, £2:25 from Neil Miller Publications, Mount Cottage, Grange Road, St Michael's, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6EE. Six short stories, ranging from quirky humour to dark horror, from authors including Ken Cheslin and D. Ceder. Most of the pieces have predictable outcomes, but it's a fairly entertaining read nonetheless.

CARNAGE HALL
#5:
A5, 68pp, $5 from David Griffin, P.O. Box 7, Esopus, New York 12429, USA. A theme of wonder runs through much of the non-fiction in this issue. For editor David Griffin, it was the first experience of reading Lewis Carroll's Alice, the book that subsequently shaped his whole appreciation of literature. For Jeff VanderMeer, it was the unexpected and joyous return to that childhood wonder when he discovered Angela Carter's fiction; his essay rationalises that effect by examining her mastery of the surreal. Carter's retelling of popular fairy tales in The Bloody Chamber link us to the second stream in Carnage Hall #5: our enduring fascination with the 'Beauty and the Beast' theme in art, literature and cinema. Jessica Amanda Salmonson reveals the changing sexual politics behind successive retellings of the tale, while Nancy Willard describes the trauma of giving the old story a new setting, and David Griffin returns with an architectural critique of Wilderstein, the Victorian Hudson villa on which Willard based her Beast's mansion. All of these essays are scholarly works, academic yet neither pompous nor patronising, making this issue of Carnage Hall a stimulating and rewarding read.

CZERWONY KARZEL (RED DWARF)
#5:
A5, 140pp p/b, #6: A5, 76pp p/b, #7: A5, 146pp p/b, #8: A5, 132pp p/b, enquire to Gdanski Klub Fantastyki (GKF), P.O. Box 76, 80-325 Gdansk 37, Poland. Published by Poland's largest SF fan club, each issue of Czerwony Karzel features artwork, verse and fiction by native authors, plus translations of English-language work and news from Polish fandom. Most of #5 is taken up by the concluding part of Asimov's 'Caves of Steel', though #7 and #8 have a more even mix with stories by Bill Dodds, Lois McMaster Bujold and Cliff Burns, and interviews with John Gribbin and Iain Banks; even though the text is all in Polish, you can still enjoy the fine colour covers and excellent comic strips. However, issue #6 turns the tables on its regular readers by being entirely in English, showcasing the fiction of GKF members to the wider SF community and presenting two previously unpublished interviews, one with Isaac Asimov conducted in 1988, and another with Ursula K. LeGuin.

DATA DUMP
#8:
A5, 4pp, 50p/$1:50, #12-#13: A5, 4pp, 70p/$2:00 each (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Continuing Steve's series of factsheets on genre poetry, Data Dump #8 lists sources of poems relating to nuclear holocaust. It's exhaustive in its coverage, though by Steve's own admission 135 references can only scratch the surface of the theme that most interfaces both genre and non-genre poets. Issue #12 is more of a pot pourri, listing recent articles on genre poetry and new poetry collections, and exploring the influence of genre ideas on recent operatic works, while #13 looks at poet-protagonists in genre novels and updates the listing of humorous poems in fanzines initiated in Steve's earlier chapbook War of the Words.

THE DOG FACTORY
#3:
A4, 24pp, enquire to either Dave Wood, 1 Friary Close, Marine Hill, Clevedon BS21 7QA, or Les Escott, 84 Ivy Avenue, Bath, Avon BA2 1AN. More rants from the Morrigan stable, this time on a music theme. Les Escott takes on Alex North's original score for Kubrick's 2001, and Dave Wood expounds the links between SF and popular music back to the jazz and bebop scene of the 40s and 50s, but they're just the warm-up act for Joey Zone's mega interview with biker and sonic strategist Michael Chocholak.

DRAGON'S BREATH
#35/36, #38:
A4, 4pp each, #39-#41: A4, 2pp each, available for one SAE per issue (12/£2:50; EC 12/£3:50; rest of Europe 12/£4; USA/Canada: 12/£4; r.o.w. 12/£5.50) from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. More capsule reviews of SF/F/H small press and media-related publications from all over the world, densely packed with a swift content overview and Zine Kat's wry observations.

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
#41-#45:
A5, 20pp, and #46: A5, 24pp, $2 each (6/$10) from David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404, USA (e-mail:
d.kopasks-me@genie.com; http://virtumall.com/intermix/dream.htm). A poetry magazine that specialises in experimental forms and content, and fantastic horror in particular. Issue #42 pauses to consider the one-word poem, or pwoermd, for which the title can be any length – my favourite had to be Bruce Boston's 'World's Shortest Time-Travel Story'. There's quite a high proportion of short prose work in Dreams and Nightmares, with Bruce Holland Rogers's bizarre excuse for the late filing of his tax return in #41 and William L. Ramseyer's 'Brain Drain II' in #43 being especially enjoyable.

GLOBAL MAIL
#15:
A4, 32pp, $3 or 5 IRCs (3/$9; r.ow. 3/$12) from Michael Dittman, Grove City Factory Stores, P.O. Box 1309, Grove City, PA 16127, USA (
http://www.well.com/user/soapbox/eglobal.htm). A lot has happened to Global Mail since the last issue we received (#6), including a change of address, a change of editor, and a massive increase in pagecount. It's now even more packed with listings than ever – over 600 in this issue alone. There are no actual reviews, just details and deadlines for mail art shows, zine exchanges, anarchism, e-mail activities, art projects, eroticism and gender matters, and every kind of audio, video and printed publications. An excellent addition is the 'Help Desk', packed with information on such thorny issues as how to secure distribution for your zine, copyright myths, and international mail etiquette – essential reading for novice and experienced small press activists alike.

HANDSHAKE
#8-#9:
A4, 2pp, #14: A4, 4pp, #22-#25: A4, 2pp, free for SAE from J.F. Haines, 5 Cross Farm, Station Road, Padgate, Warrington WA2 0QG. Handshake is the irregular newsletter of The Eight Hand Gang, an informal association of British SF poets that takes its name from a legendary SF poetry anthology from 1970, Holding Your Eight Hands, edited by Edward Lucie-Smith. On the front page, each issue contains announcements of poetry-related events, and relevant market news from both sides of the Atlantic, while on the reverse there's a selection of work from the likes of Steve Sneyd, Brian Maycock, John Light, K.V. Bailey and Neil K. Henderson. Handshake #14 is a bumper special issue of SF poetry written to commemorate the centenary of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.

HOG
#1
and #2: A4, 36pp, £1:50 each, order from Noel K. Hannan, Bad to the Bone, 18 Lansdowne Road, Sydney, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 5JY (
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BAD2BONE); all other correspondence to Rik Rawling, 4A Hardy Avenue, Churwell, Morley, Leeds LS27 7SJ. Rik Rawling describes HOG more as an 'attitude' than an irregularly published comic: "you're rooting through your old LPs when you come across a classic issue of Club International stuffed inside your gate-fold copy of The Human League's Dare album. That's HOG." Most of the comic is written and drawn by Rik (with input from Jim Boswell, Jim McLennan, and of course Noel Hannan), which means it's overflowing with babes and guns and gratuitous sex and violence – PC it certainly ain't! For example, there's Jack Shit (a half-cyborg-half-psycho trapped in a brothel by a homo rapist werewolf SWAT team), Arseman (a superhero with no special powers or gadgets, just a towel wrapped round his head and a serious fuck off attitude) and 'cutting edge journalism' like 'Music for Fucking', 'The Boner Sutra', and 'Uncle Squid's Problem Page'. At the end of the day, it is indeed HOG's attitude that carries it through: underneath the obvious gross-outs, the humour and attention to detail are brilliant (keep your eyes on the button badge logos, background graffiti and T-shirt slogans), and the brash editorial hypespeak flows so naturally there's no doubt whatsoever that Rik's having great fun putting this magazine together, and wants you to have great fun reading it too. Though quite what his wife makes of it all I'm not so sure ...

INFORMATOR
#64:
A5, 2pp, #65-#66: A4, 8pp each, #69: A5, 10pp, and #70: A5, 12pp, enquire to Gdanski Klub Fantastyki (GKF), P.O. Box 76, 80-325 Gdansk 37, Poland. This is GKF's regular newsletter, containing up-to-date information about what's happening in the club as well as convention reports and information about events in Polish fandom. Although everything's in Polish as you'd expect, summary sheets in English are thoughtfully provided for western readers.

LIGHT'S LIST
1997:
A5, 48pp, £1:25 (USA $4 surface, $5 air) from from Photon Press, 29 Longfield Road, Tring, Herts HP23 4DG. Latest edition of John Light's annual listing of more than 1,100 UK and overseas small press magazines publishing poetry, short stories, articles, artwork, reviews, and market information in English, giving titles, addresses and brief descriptions of contents.

MATRIX
#122-#123:
A4, 24pp each, 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). Covering every aspect of SF from fan funds to big press publishing schedules, the BSFA's news magazine can tend to suffer from being all things to all people, and doesn't seem to have mastered the art of packing lots in without making the layout look too busy. If you want all your SF news in one place, however, with a dash of opinion to leaven the mix, then no other magazine fits the bill so completely.

THE MODERN DANCE
#15, #16:
A5, 32pp each, #18, #21: A5, 36pp each, free for SAE (no paid subscriptions) from Dave Hughes, 12 Blakestones Road, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield HD7 5UQ (
http://members.aol.com/dwworks/dance1.htm). Reading an issue of The Modern Dance is like rummaging though a mate's record collection: some stuff you've already got yourself, some you've not heard in ages and the memories come flooding back, and some you've never heard of before but look interesting so you'll give 'em a spin. Thorogood rubs shoulders with Rebello, Sepultura with Schumann – basically if it's been recently released or re-released then Modern Dance reviews it. Even better, the reviewers are all punters like you and me rather than hyped-up musos peddling their own sweet agenda, so you're guaranteed an honest (but often no less opinionated) assessment every time.

MOONGATE DE HOMO SENTIENS
Vol.2 #1, Vol.3 #10
and Vol.4 #2: A5, 20pp each, and Vol.4 #4: A5, 24pp, free for SAE from Mother Bird Books, 1213 Durango, Silver City, New Mexico 88061, USA. Although it's poetry-oriented rather than a fiction magazine, drawing its voice from many writers who live and work in this part of New Mexico gives Moongate much in common with Xizquil. Uncle River is a prominent contributor, his thoughtful verse revealing stark incomprehension of the motivations of modern consumer society, while others like T. Jackson King and Matt Meyers revere the closeness to nature of wilderness life. Later issues feature more contributors from further afield, including England and New Zealand, perhaps reflecting Moongate's widening appeal, but still retaining the spiritual (but not religious) sentiment of earlier editions.

MUSIC FROM THE EMPTY QUARTER
#9:
A5, 104pp, p/b, and #10: A5, 116pp p/b, £2 each (3/£7; Europe 3/£8; USA 3/$20; r.o.w 3/£10) from The Empty Quarter, P.O. Box 87, Ilford, Essex IG1 3HJ. How does the UK's leading magazine for all types of left-field sounds cope with the stagnation of one of its major subject areas – industrial music? By embracing techno, that's how. After all, as they claim, that's where the most exciting new music is coming from, it's got the attitude the industrialists had, and it contains elements of industrial to boot. No, they haven't gone and turned MFTEQ into a Mixmag clone as a result, but it's refreshing and encouraging to see such a passionate magazine so willing to move with the times. Meanwhile, there's still definitive coverage of most other forms of electronic and experimental music: queuing up for your attention in #9 and #10 are The Revolting Cocks, Treponem Pal, Sleep Chamber, Black Metal Jesus, Scorn, Code, Swamp Terrorists, KMFDM, Vomito Negro to name just a random few, and as usual nearly half of each issue is taken up by reviews and yet more reviews – after all, where else will you find out about these bands?

NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW
Vol. 19 #4:
A5, 48pp, £3 (non-UK £4) from Gerald England, 20 Werneth Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire SK14 5NL (e-mail:
gerald.england@virgin.net; http://freespace.virgin.net/gerald.england/nhihome.htm). NHIR is always packed with handy reviews of hundreds of small press items, primarily poetry-oriented, many of which you won't have read about before. There are separate sections for books, cassettes, CDs, CD-ROMs, magazines, newsletters, and videos, with a new section on websites of interest to poets and writers.

NEXT PHASE
Vol.3 #1:
A4, 36pp, $3 (3/$8) from Phantom Press Publications, 33 Court Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Providing a forum for political, environmental and intellectual discussion, Next Phase is a smart, well laid-out publication, and having more than doubled in size since the last issue we saw (Vol.1 #7) it's also much better value for money than it used to be. Some of the content is still so-so (Jaret Selberg's comment column and Kevin R. Doyle's short-short 'Splat' especially lack substance), but the profiles of an Arizona eco-activist and a New Haven photojournalist both entertain and inform, while on the fiction front Jon-Michael Emory's 'Bundles' is a sardonic take on recrimination and social dynamics in a small tenement community.

NIGHT DREAMS
#2:
A4, 44pp, #3: A4, 48pp, #4: A4, 44pp, £2:50 each; #5-#7: A4, 44pp, £2:80 each (4/£10:50) from K.S. King, 47 Stephens Road, Walmley, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B76 2TS. Kirk King's magazine of pulp horror with a 90s feel has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few issues, not least in the way that classy two column typesetting has replaced the coarse dot-matrix printout of the earlier editions. Some of this improvement may be attributable to the co-opting of Tanjen's Anthony Barker to the editorial hotseat, but the focus on weird, gruesome and frightening stories remains unchanged. Featured authors have included Nicholas Royle, Simon Clark and Rhys Hughes, with pride of place in issue #7 going to D.F. Lewis and his 999th and 1,000th published stories – an astonishing achievement! Chilling tales too from Neal Asher, Peter Tennant, and Anthony Cawood.

NOTES FROM OBLIVION
#28:
A4, 10pp corner stapled, and #29: A4, 8pp, free for SAE or audiotape correspondence from Jay Harber, 626 Paddock Lane, Libertyville, IL 60048, USA. Notes from Oblivion is a personal zine from someone who suffers a debilitating combination of neurological disorder and environmental illness, which causes an extreme sensitivity to light and makes it impossible to focus on print. It appears that Jay's family and medical carers don't take the condition seriously, and so this zine provides a means of maintaining a minimum of contact with the outside world (see small ad in this issue of the BBR Directory). The bulk of #28 describes the nature of this condition, and also Jay's sadness at the the dismissive reaction of SubGenius guru Ivan Stang, while in #29 some initial comparisons of Star Trek, ST:TNG and the other spin-off series lead to interesting thoughts about repressed emotions and the near religious status of therapists in the USA today.

ONGAKU OTAKU
#2:
A4, 140pp p/b, $4:95 from Automatism Press, P.O. Box 170277, San Francisco, CA 94117-0277, USA (e-mail:
autompress@aol.com; http://www.meer.net/~charnel/automat/). I must confess that independent Japanese music has never been something I've really thought about before, but a flick through this hefty magazine reveals a thriving scene that ranges from noise and rock to punk and the totally indefinable, and which is now rapidly gaining a cult following in the USA. As anyone involved in the small press knows full well, the key to success for any indie production is getting the word out about your stuff, and Ongaku Otaku helps bands do that by reviewing all the musical material it can lay its hands on – a full 50 pages of this issue is effectively a Factsheet Five for Japanese indie music. A more in-depth introduction to the scene comes in the front half of the magazine, with profiles of God Mountain records and the Japan Overseas label, and interviews with such bands and musicians as Akifumi Nakajima, Super Junky Monkey, Shikuza, and Jojo Hiroshige. Other background material comes from an article discussing the roots and history of the Japanese noise scene, and your cultural induction continues with reviews of different brands of Japanese iced coffee available in San Francisco, and a feature on the exquisite dolls of Katan Amano. Only editor Mason Jones's travel diary from his latest trip to Japan failed to engage me, not because of what he describes, but because his long narrative is too flat and sequential, with no special weight, colour or emphasis to guide his readers through his exotic and vicarious experiences. Overall Ongaku Otaku is a very well-produced magazine, well laid out and with a laminated full-colour cover, and as far as this total novice can tell, does an excellent job of introducing and exploring this thriving sector of the music business.

PENNY DREADFUL
#3:
A5, 32pp, free for SAE from Penny Dreadful, 407 West 50th St #16, Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019, USA. There's plenty here to please fans of traditional horror, with two short stories and plenty of poetry from the likes of Mark Anthony Rossi, Richard Malz and Nancy Bennett, though for this reader the shorter poems, such as 'Shadow Watcher' by Donna Taylor Burgess and Jancarl Campi's 'Hammers', were most effective.

SIERRA HEAVEN
#1:
A4, 56pp, #2: A4, 64pp p/b, and #3: A4, 60pp, £3:75 each (4/£15; Europe 4/£22; USA 4/$40) from Alex Bardy, 29 Harrier Way, Evelyn Mews, Beckton, London E6 4YP. The pitch of this new magazine is unashamedly towards the enjoyment of SF, fantasy and horror, in short to produce a "thumping good read" rather than to challenge and confront with less accessible material. Some of the stories are a bit too too cosy for this reader, but those that did provide a suitably warm fuzzy feeling included 'A Prince of Time' by John Light (#1), Chris Bell's 'Skins Out!', Ken Alden's 'The House with the Mouth', and Tim Lebbon's 'Tumblers' (#2), and 'Pulp' by Ian Sales (#3). Behind the scenes, it's clear the experience Bardy gained from producing Cerebretron in the late 80s is put to good use in Sierra Heaven, which displays a sureness of touch rarely found in magazines this young. A case in point is James Miller's letter in issue #2 criticising the absence of experimental work in the magazine: though a healthy debate follows, Bardy doesn't let this issue cloud the magazine's direction. Elsewhere he treats the written word with the respect that it's due, confidently departing from the ubiquitous two-column grid where appropriate and varying the typeface wisely. Add to that some fine illustrations by the likes of Alan Casey, Alan Lathwell, and Madeleine Finnegan, and in particular, the starkly economical draughtsmanship of Graham Shaw, and you get the feeling that Sierra Heaven is going to be around for a long time to come.

THE SILVER WEB
#10:
A4, 68pp, $5.75; #11 and #12: A4, 68pp, $5:95 each; #13: A4, 124pp p/b, and #14: A4, 92pp p/b, $7.15 each (2/$12; r.o.w. 2/$14) from Buzzcity Press, P.O. Box 38190, Tallahassee, FL 32315, USA. Editor Ann Kennedy has been maintaining a healthy schedule in recent years, establishing The Silver Web as a major player in the US small press. Her magazine combines horror of more traditional variety with offbeat surreal material, and personal narrative that puts most of the British so-called 'slipstream' in the shade. An excellent case in point is Martin Simpson's 'Last Rites and Resurrections' from issue #11, a moving portrayal of a man working through his grief for his son which subsequently anchored and gave its name to The Third Alternative's retrospective anthology. Simpson's second story for The Silver Web – 'Dancing About Architecture' (#13) – is another excellent piece, disappointing only in that it too deals with grief; I do hope he's not going to do an Eric Brown on us! Other noteworthy fiction includes Ina Roy's 'Bats' (#10), Nathan Ballingrud's 'The Casual Conversation of Angels' (#11), 'The Reflections of Ghosts' by Jeffrey Thomas and Tom Piccirilli's 'The Hanging Man' (#12), 'Mixing Rebecca' by Daniel Abraham (#13), and Carl Sieber's 'The Caretakers' (#14). The Silver Web has never been simply a fiction magazine: each issue features a portfolio by, and an interview with, an eminent artist such as Jill Bauman, H.E. Fassl, Carlos Batts or Rodger Gerberding; and #13, the special music issue, brought a slew of excellent articles and interviews involving Robyn Hitchcock, Martin Newell, Tartan Keats, Steve Wynn, and Mick Harvey. Issue #13 also introduced a stunning redesign for The Silver Web, which now sports perfect binding and a full colour cover. Issues #1 to #12 have already sold out, and with their quality of content and presentation #13 and #14 deserve to do the same.

SLAN: THE MAGAZINE FOR SUPERHUMAN MENTAL PATIENTS
#1:
A4, 10pp single-sided, side stapled, $2 (6/$11; UK/Europe 6/$25) cash only, from Robert E. Rogoff, P.O. Box 1304, Skokie, IL 60076-8304, USA. Slan is an informal newsletter designed to "facilitate the growth of a communication network of interest to persons wishing connection with a community exploring psychiatric, psychological, educational, and sociological issues". Himself a sufferer of mental illness, Rogoff sets the ball rolling with the transcript of his keynote address to a recent 'Living with Mental Illness' symposium. In it he describes how he believes the American medical and social security systems have consistently failed him, and how they seem actively to discriminate against the mentally ill. It's a sobering but somehow unsurprising account, thankfully with an upbeat conclusion: having at last found the correct treatment – more by luck than the professional judgement of his carers – Rogoff is now headed to law school to become a more effective advocate for mental health consumers.

THE SNAKE
Ashcan Edition #0:
B5, 36pp, $5:45 from Anubis Press, 7481 Huntsman Boulevard, Suite 810, Springfield, VA 22153, USA.
TRAUMA CORPS
#1:
B5, 36pp, $4:25 from Anubis Press as above.
URBAN DECAY
#1:
B5, 36pp, $4:45 from Anubis Press as above. Three new comics series from this relatively new imprint. Trauma Corps and Urban Decay are both luscious full colour productions, while the ashcan edition of The Snake is a black and white edition for the press's die-hard b&w fans. All the stories are set in a high-tech future of crime barons, cyber enhancements and scores to settle through gratuitous violence, though for first installments they appear too loosely plotted to hook this reader into buying subsequent episodes.

TOUCHPAPER
#4:
A4, 2pp, 5/£1:50 (non-UK: one IRC per issue) from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. In the latest issue of Tony Lee's irregular newsletter of polemic, comment and reviews Rhys Hughes nominates his choices for the first SF novel, David Ratcliffe continues the debate of horror v. SF, and Josh Bingham reviews his top five SF short stories.

VIDEOVISTA
#1-#2:
A5, 4pp each, #3: A5, 8pp, #5: A5, 4pp, and #7-#9: A5, 8pp each, 12/£5 from Tony Lee, Pigasus Press, 13 Hazely Combe, Arreton, Isle of Wight PO30 3AJ. Is Tony Lee trying to take over the world or what? Yet another from his stable of slim newsletters, this time reviewing the UK's latest video releases, from Heritage Guides to Great Britain to Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra.

WOLFSHEAD QUARTERLY REVIEW
#1:
A6, 8pp, free for SAE from Wolfs Head Press, P.O. Box 77, Sunderland SR1 1EB. This is in effect a glorified catalogue for Wolfs Head Press (publishers of, among others, John Reid's gloriously titled Crop Circles for Fun & Profit), but it also features reviews of other small press magazines, and a daffy of 'strange but true' snippets – culled from the filler item columns of the local and national press – to give the general flavour of WHP publications.

WRITER'S BLOCK MAGAZINE
Vol.2 #1:
A5, 52pp, and Vol.3 #1: A5, 48pp, Can$3:50 each (4/Can$12) from Writer's Block Magazine, Box 32, 9944 – 33 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T6N 1E8, Canada. This small literary magazine is working hard to promote quality fiction and poetry in the Canadian and international arenas. The stories in the two issues here cover a wide range of styles, including speculative fiction by Dan Pearlman, mystery by Nancy Kilpatrick, romance by Barbara White-Rayczek, and horror by Peter H. Wood. As the magazine is aimed at a general reading public, none of the stories particularly stretch the envelopes of their chosen genre, but do without exception provide a satisfying read.

WRITERS VIEWPOINT
#4:
A4, 34pp slide bound, 4/£10 from Viewpoint Manuscript Service, P.O. Box 514, Eastbourne BN23 6RE. Editor Belinda Rance took exception to our suggestion in BBR #22's Directory that the debut issue of Writers Viewpoint, at £2:50 for only 16 pages, was not as good value for money as publications like Quartos or Scavenger's Newsletter. Three issues later the magazine has doubled in size to a more realistic 34 pages, dominated by short fiction and poetry, with some writers' tips and a round-up of market news and competitions. With the content seemingly geared towards a more mature readership, subscribers' material takes priority over anyone else's contributions.


Author CollectionsReviewed

GENUINELY INSPIRED PRIMITIVE
by Cliff Burns

A5, 49pp p/b, $8:25 (r.o.w. $9:75) from Earth Prime Productions, P.O. Box 29127, Parma, Ohio 44129, USA. Genuinely Inspired Primitive follows the format of Burns's previous collection of short-short fiction, That First, Wound-Bearing Layer, by being divided like a record into two 'sides' or sections. As before 'Side One' contains more personal pieces, though this time more restrained and perhaps less anguished than in TFWBL, with the more observational pieces again in 'Side Two'. All combine the vision and imagery of poetry with the pace and economy of good short fiction in typical Burns fashion to create another enjoyable and provocative collection.

SURVIVING CIVILIZATION
by Cliff Burns

A5 landscape, 68pp, Can$8:50 from Black Dog Press, 1142 105th Street, North Battleford, Saskatchewan S9A 1S6, Canada. This is a bizarre creation from one of Canada's most ideosyncratic writers. Textually, it consists of little more than a sparsely economical thirty-line prose poem, but it's been split up so that each line appears on its own on the right-hand side of a double-page spread, complemented by an appropriate photo-montage image on the left. The effect is quite complex, suddenly creating a work much greater than the sum of its parts, as Burns pokes and prods at our pre-millennium probias and preconceptions about the nature and destiny of civilisation.

SPACEMAN
by Dave Calder

ISBN 0-905262-09-3, A5, 12pp, £1:25/$3 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Reprinted from Calder's long out-of-print 1960s SF poetry collection Spaced, this powerful sequence is completed by two new pieces written specially for this edition. In the poems, Calder explores his space voyager narrator's outward quest for knowledge and inward search for meaning in ways as fully human as they are fluidly and beautifully poetic.

ASTRONAUTS AND ANGELS
by Noel Hannan

A5, 36pp, £1:50 from Noel K. Hannan, Bad to the Bone, 18 Lansdowne Road, Sydney, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 5JY (
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BAD2BONE). Noel produced this booklet to accompany a workshop he organised for the May 1997 Sandbach Arts Festival, and there's plenty here for any aspiring writer, artist or small press publisher. In the first half of the booklet, he reveals the full horror story of his and Rik Rawling's dealings with US comics publisher Fantaco, and discusses the harsh lessons to be learnt from the acrimonious outcome. Anyone interested in the technical aspects of scripting comics and collaborating with artists, on the other hand, will be fascinated by comparing Noel's original script with the finished strip for 'Happenstance', a collaboration with artist Alwyn Talbot (son of Luther Arkwright's Bryan Talbot).

GOSSAMER BEACH
THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE ATOMIC ADONIS
MEDICAL ETHICS
by Noel Hannan

A5, 44pp, 36pp and 32pp respectively, £1:50 each from Noel K. Hannan, Bad to the Bone, 18 Lansdowne Road, Sydney, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 5JY (
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BAD2BONE). Noel's long-running Nightfall Press is now an imprint of the wider Bad to the Bone operation, and these Nightfall Press Booklets give him the chance to publish some of his longer text stories as opposed to comic strips. Gossamer Beach is an out-and-out cyberpunk tale, in which the young Japanese orphan Hiroko seeks to lose himself in virtual reality and dispense with his human body completely – but naturally there's a twist in the tail. Medical Ethics is set in a more gritty near future, and concerns a doctor working in a gangster-controlled no-go zone, who discovers the top hitman he regularly treats is also a child killer. The characters in both stories are pure stereotypes, but Hannan takes time to develop his protagonists and make them three-dimensional, whilst still keeping the plot rattling along at a healthy pace. Of the the three booklets, Atomic Adonis has the most to offer, but is in fact the least rewarding. With an all-women crew on a bomber armed with atomic warheads in some vast gender-based war, you'd expect this to be the definitive 'babes-with-guns' story. Instead, Hannan opts to explore the relationships between crew members on what turns out to be their last ever bombing raid. Although the tension does build inexorably as the mission progresses, his dialogue and characterisation ultimately reveal more about male fantasies of lesbian sex than they do the deeper dynamics of all-women relationships.

SOLO
by Noel Hannan and Rik Rawling

A4, 48pp, £2:00 from Noel K. Hannan, Bad to the Bone, 18 Lansdowne Road, Sydney, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 5JY (
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BAD2BONE). In their Streetmeat graphic novel, Noel and Rik created a vivid 21st-century Seattle setting for the ultimate babe-with-a-gun, Melanoma Solo. Significantly, they added extra depth and texture with short fiction and mock adverts to complement the main comic, and that's the direction they take in Solo, a special spin-off edition. With two freestanding short stories about Mel, one a prequel to Streetmeat, the other taking place after the events in the graphic novel, Rik Rawling proves he can write good fiction as well as draw it. There's also a stylish Hannan/Rawling graphic story and, as before, adverts and other false documents interweave the storyline. Fourteen different artists display portraits of Melanoma Solo in the 'Ultravixen' gallery, but none of them capture the essence of Rawling's visual creation. Other than that, though, Solo's an excellent addition to the Bad to the Bone stable.

TALES FROM THE BLOATED GOAT: EARLY DAYS IN MOGOLLÓN
by H.A. Hoover

ISBN 0-944383-02-5, A5, 68pp p/b, published by High-Lonesome Books, San Lorenzo, New Mexico 88057, USA. If you ever thought Uncle River's 'Mogollón News' was all made up, then think again. In this handsome facsimile of the original published in 1958 Texas Western Press, H.A. Hoover recalls the yarns swapped by old-timers in the Bloated Goat Saloon about those turbulent days before New Mexico became a state and Mogollón became a ghost town. His tales of desperadoes, of Indians, and of just plain life in that frontier town, will strike a chord with readers of Uncle River's reports: on 22 April 1910 for example, a travelling optician attends a Japanese cook called Watanabe, hanging his test chart on a big sycamore tree. "Apparently the travelling man got an order," Hoover recalls. "In a week or two I handed Watanabe a small package from our mail sack and later that day he was wearing glasses. We never saw the optician again and Watanabe left the country some thirty-five years ago, but that old sycamore still stands just across the road from the main entrance to The Oaks." Further comparison of Hoover's and River's accounts also suggests that the road into Mogollón is no easier to negotiate today than when 24-horse teams brought in supplies at the turn of the century, though thankfully the threat of train-robbers, bandits and mountain lions has abated somewhat, and coffin-handles are no longer a standard item at the general store. Of course, as Francis L. Fugate notes in the introduction, "Sometimes the accounts do not concur with what historians have said on the same subjects. The historians did not have access to the contemporary notations in Mr Hoover's diaries, and it can be assumed that talk turned to the weather when they dropped in at the Bloated Goat."

AE: THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE
by Mike Johnson

ISBN 0-905262-07-7, A5, 12pp, £1/$2:50 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. This unusual narrative poem tells of a man-made, quasi-sapient "Quasorg", launched into space and gifted with full consciousness by Andromedan aliens. Unable to handle such instant total enlightenment, Quasorg's response is as much a reflection on its human creators as on any shortcomings of its own. AE first appeared in 1979 in a small-circulation poetry magazine, but its very individual interfacing of SF and concrete forms is as powerful now as it was then.

DOTTY
by John Light

ISBN 1-897968-26-4, A5, 32pp, £1:25 (USA $4 surface, $5 air) from Photon Press, 29 Longfield Road, Tring, Herts HP23 4DG. In this delightful and deceptively simple chapbook for children written and illustrated by John Light, Linus the line notices some very strange things about his friends Lionel and Caroline. Upon further investigation, lines seen close up are actually dots close together, and dots close up are actually hollow circles, showing that you can never take for granted that anything is what it appears at first sight.

LINES OF LIGHT
by John Light

ISBN 3-7052-0414-9, A5, 67pp p/b, published by Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria (UK £6:50 from Photon Press, 29 Longfield Road, Tring, Herts HP23 4DG). Although he has been widely published as a poet for many years, this is the first substantial collection of John Light's poetry. All his interests find expression, from his awe of the natural world to his observations of everyday life, and on to the mystery of mythology and dreams. Although many of the poems deal with immense themes, you never have to work hard to extract their meaning, as the writing itself is always clear and direct.

FIERCE FAR SUNS
(aka DATA DUMP #19/#20)
by Steve Sneyd

ISBN 0-905262-14-X, A5, 20pp, £2:15/$5:50 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Franklin, Poe, Whitman – from the beginning there were poets in America looking outward to populate the far reaches of space. There were darker poetic visions, too, of beings from Out There distorting earthly life. This booklet gives an overview of proto-SF and SF poetry in the States from before the Revolution to Lovecraft and on to the 1960s.

FLIGHTS FROM THE IRON MOON
by Steve Sneyd

ISBN 0-905262-12-3, A5, 128pp, £2:50/$6 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. An ideal tool for both the historian and the researcher alike, this is a huge gazetteer of genre poetry in UK fanzines and little magazines of the 1980s, with background information on the people involved and extracts from the poems themselves. Influential magazines from this period of intense fanzine and small press activity – such as IDOMO, Barddoni, SF Spectrum, Star Wine and Macabre – are discussed exhaustively, while the entries for some of the other lesser-known titles refreshed many fine memories from the early days of Back Brain Recluse.

STAR-SPANGLED SHADOWS
(aka DATA DUMP #15/#16)
by Steve Sneyd

ISBN 0-905262-13-1, A5, 16pp, £1:75/$5 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. An overview of poetry in American SF fanzines from the 1930s to the 1960s, exploring the role of individual magazines and authors. Although only a preliminary report on his continuing research into a vast topic, this chapbook is testament to Steve Sneyd's exhaustive and dedicated approach, borne of an obvious love of the subject.

YOU CAN SEE THE PAST FROM HERE: THIRTY YEARS OF HILLTOP PRESS
by Steve Sneyd
ORESTES
by Tom Bamford

ISBN 0-905262-04-2, A5, 28pp, £2:75/$6 (USA orders in cash or stamps of 50¢ or less) from Steve Sneyd, Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield HD5 8PB. Though its output over the past three decades has been by Steve's own admission somewhat sporadic, Hilltop's current range of titles is testament to his unequalled status as the ambassador of SF poetry. With contemporaneous records of small press publishing so few and far between, You Can See The Past From Here serves not only as a cautionary tale for new editors, but also as a stimulus for existing small press activists to document their own histories. It's presented in an upside-down-and-back-to-back format with Orestes by Tom Bamford. Lost since the mid 1970s and only recently rediscovered, this 4-page poem demands reading as much now as it did 20 years ago – indeed in some ways it speaks more urgently to the moods and concerns of the 90s than those of the more blinkeredly optimistic 70s.


AnthologiesReviewed

LAST RITES AND RESURRECTIONS
edited by Andy Cox

ISBN 0-9526947-0-0, A5, 170pp p/b, £5:99 from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB.
   If Barrington Books had ever put together a fourth anthology, it would have looked very much like Last Rites and Resurrections – even Andy Cox's introduction seems to sing from the same hymn-sheet as Chris Kenworthy's opening to The Science of Sadness. Having five contributors in common with Barrington's final collection adds to that sense of treading the same boards; Kenworthy's own 'Because of Dust', for example, seems to peddle the same intellectualised adolescent angst that we've seen from him elsewhere.
   A handful of stories do stand head and shoulders above the rest in this collection. Martin Simpson's 'Last Rites and Resurrections' describes how a man's communion with animals killed on the highway helps him to grieve for his son, and Hick Turnball's 'The Galaxy by Torchlight' is a delightful and quirky alien contact story. In '4 Miles to the Hotel California' by Roger Stone has you singing the Eagles song under your breath as you follow the narrator's opening high-speed dash to his lover, and has you hooked for the rest of the story. What sets all of three pieces apart is that the combination of fantastic and mainstream is integral to the formation of the story – the narrative defining the special effects as it should do, rather than the SFX defining the narrative or being bolted on afterwards as a sop to genre-based readers.
   If one of the principal roles of a 'best of' anthology is to chart the evolution of its parent magazine, then it's impossible to say how Last Rites fulfills this role for The Third Alternative, as the usual notes saying in which issue the stories first appeared have been omitted. That also means there's no acknowledgement that Simpson's story (arguably the best in the book) was first published in the USA in The Silver Web – a curious breach of publishing protocol.


AudioReviewed

PROCEED TO BEYOND ... THE RAPE OF EUROPA
by Solar Enemy

Audio CD, T.E.Q. Music?, TEQM93001, £9 (Europe £9; r.ow. £10) from The Empty Quarter, P.O. Box 87, Ilford, Essex IG1 3HJ. I've always been a sucker for heavy synth music, so this excursion by electro/techno band Solar Enemy hit the mark right from the start. In their previous life as Portion Control, Solar Enemy are said to have influenced virtually every industrial band today, from NIN to Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. They haven't lost their touch here, with hard dance and even harder voiced electro-punk/pop flowing freely against a backdrop of harsh instrumental landscapes. Rugged drum machine sequences provide the foundation not only for upbeat danceable tracks such as 'Chrome Eternal' and 'Inter-Stellar' but also for more atmospheric instrumental pieces like 'Coder 11' and 'Slow Hell' – definitely one to play very loud on auto-repeat.

NOUR D'OUI
by Sons of Selina

Audio CD, Delerium Records, DELEC CD 025, enquire to Delerium Records, P.O. Box 1288, Gerrards Cross, Bucks SL9 9YB. Laced with energy, experimentation and dark menacing humour, Nour d'Oui is a fusion of punk, new wave, and heavy brooding space rock that grabs your attention from the opening chords of 'Climb' right through to the final notes of 'Dreamshadow'. Relentless bass lines and rabble-rousing choruses underpin choppy guitars, soaring synths and abrasive vocals, overlaid with a floaty, Lloyd-Langton-style lead guitar, news samples and other weird sound effects. If Hawkwind had ever kicked out Dave Brock and let Lemmy take the helm, then I guess this is what the result would have sounded like.


CataloguesReviewed

CHUCK'S NEWSLETTER
A4, 2pp, enquire to Chuck's, 417 Claxton Cres, Prince George, BC V2M 6B8, Canada (e-mail:
chucks@pgweb.com; http://www.pgweb.com/chucks). Promo newssheet with previews of the latest developments at Chuck's Electronic Publishing, Chuck's Bargain Books, and Chuck's Gallery of Horrors. CGH offers pottery, sculpture and art potfolios for the serious horror fan, CEP presents Cthulhu-oriented fiction and reference volumes, and CBB has more than 2,200 books for sale – all are listed on the website though free mini catalogues are available by genre, or send US$2 for the full monty.

COLD TONNAGE BOOKS
Sept 97:
A5, 36pp, enquire to Cold Tonnage Books, Andy Richards, 22 Kings Lane, Windelsham, Surrey GU20 6JQ. Probably the finest selection of SF/F/H in the country. It's a collector's paradise, with signed, hardback and limited editions a speciality.


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SF FAN/SUBGENIUS (vaguely left-leaning) with eye disorder needs correspondence on audiotape. My medical problems are extremely isolating and I could really use mail contact with SF-oriented people. Interests: Gene Wolfe, Ursula LeGuin, Sturgeon, Niven, Clarke, Dr Who, Prisoner, Red Dwarf, Blake's 7, Black Adder, Avengers, Babylon 5. Contact Jay Harber, 626 Paddock Lane, Libertyville, IL 60048, USA.

PENNY DREADFUL: Tales and Poems of Fantastic Terror is seeking submissions for its Winter 1998 Issue. Fiction (2,500 words or less), Poetry, B/W Line Art. All submitted pieces should be firmly in the Horror Genre. Previously published works and simultaneous submissions okay. Pays in copies. Send to: Penny Dreadful, 407 West 50th St #16, Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019, USA.

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