CLOSED OR MISSING
Mail sent to the new address we reported in May 98 for SIERRA HEAVEN and Alex Bardy (13 Stanley Road, Bulphan, Essex RM14 3RX), has been returned to sender with no forwarding address supplied.
NIGHT DREAMS (60 Brand Road, Honiton, Devon EX14 8FD) has closed with immediate effect – editor Kirk S. King cites financial obligations elsewhere as the reason. The planned double issue will no longer be published, and accepted work is being returned to authors. Kirk says that where subscribers are still owed, back copies of issues they haven't got will be given to cover the sub; for those who have the full set, money will be reimbursed. For anyone else wishing to complete the set all eight issues are now £2 post paid per copy, payable to Kirk.
ALTERED PERCEPTIONS #5, A5, 60pp, $3:75 (6/$19:50) from Altered Perceptions, c/o Primordial Publications, P.O. Box 1026, Nash, TX 75569-1026, USA (http://members.aol.com/alteredper/page1.htm). Adult horror/SF magazine with fiction by Michael Thomas Dillon, Jon Merz, Dan Thomas, and poetry by Patrick Schwartz, Laura Elvin, and Michael Bracken.
EYE #15 and #16, A4, 60pp, $3:95 each (6/$14; Canada 6/$20; r.o.w. 6/$36) from EYE, 301 S. Elm Street, Suite 405, Greensboro, NC 27401-2636, USA (e-mail: lisa@eyemag.com; http://www.eyemag.com). Articles and underground research on pop culture, music, technology, TV and film, fringe culture, and bizarre science.
NOVA EXPRESS Vol.4 #4, A4, 48pp, $4 (4/$12; Canada/Mexico 4/$16; r.o.w. 4/$22) from Lawrence Person, P.O. Box 27231, Austin, Texas 78755-2231, USA (e-mail: lawrence@bga.com; http://www.delphi.com/sflit/novaexpress/). Hard-hitting critical zine with an emphasis on post-cyberpunk and slipstream works. This issue contains an interview with Stephen Baxter, whilst Lawrence Person, Pat Cadigan, Stephen Dedman, Howard Hendrix and Fiona Kelleghan debate the post-cyberpunk issue, and Don Webb, John Kessel, David Langford chew over the latest book releases.
PIFFLE #2, A4, 28pp, £1:00 from David Floyd, Piffling Publishing, 93 Nightingale Lane, Hornsey, London N8 7QY (e-mail: piffle@lycosmail.com). Homourous/satirical magazine of poetry, prose, trivia and general silliness. In this issue there's a chance to win Linford Christie, and discover that Diana's not really dead, she's in a teapot.
SCAVENGER'S NEWSLETTER #173, A5, 28pp, $2:50 (12/$17; Canada 12/$20; r.o.w. air 12/$26; r.o.w. surface 12/$17) from Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Osage City, KS 66523-1329, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.cza.com/scav/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 USA, UK and elsewhere, plus a negative guide to marketing from Don Webb and Rebecca M. Senese on why books will outlive computers.
SCAVENGER'S SCRAPBOOK June 1998, A5, 28pp, $4 (4/$13; Canada 4/$13; r.o.w. 4/$16) from Janet Fox, 519 Ellinwood, Osage City, KS 66523-1329, USA (e-mail: foxscav1@jc.net; http://www.cza.com/scav/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.
THE TANJEN NEWSLETTER #2, A5, 12pp, free for SAE from Tanjen Ltd, 52 Denman Lane, Huncote, Leicester LE9 3BS (e-mail: ant@tanjen.demon.co.uk; http://www.tanjen.demon.co.uk. Promo for current and forthcoming releases including extracts from The Engineer by Neal Asher, Rawhead and Bloody Bones by Rhys H. Hughes, and Derek M. Fox's Demon, and an interview with Tim Lebbon.
LONG MEMORIES by Peter Cannon, A5, 68pp, £5:00 from The British Fantasy Society, 2 Harwood Street, Stockport SK4 1JJ (http://www.geocities.com/soho/6859/). A warm and touching account of the life of venerable SF/F/H author Frank Belknap Long, who died in 1994. One of the few fans to know Long closely, Peter Cannon draws on his personal memories of the writer to paint a candid portrait of the man behind the legend, and pays tribute to Long's devoted wife Lyda.
SHOCKS by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, A5, 68pp, £6:00 from The British Fantasy Society, 2 Harwood Street, Stockport SK4 1JJ (http://www.geocities.com/soho/6859/). A collection of four horror-humour stories, all dating originally from the mid-1970s, published to celebrate the author's Guest of Honour appearance at the 1997 London World Fantasy Convention.
THE PALADIN MANDATES by Mike Chinn, ISBN 0-9532260-0-X, A5, 95pp p/b, £6:00 from The Alchemy Press, 46 Oxford Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham B27 6DT (e-mail: peter@alchemypress.demon.co.uk). Reflecting the author's keen interest in early 20th Century history, aviation, and the unknown, The Paladin Mandates brings together six stories with a common hero, Damian Paladin. An adventurer and pilot, ghost hunter and restaurateur, Paladin combines elements of Doc Savage, Indiana Jones and The X-Files. With a full-colour cover by Bob Covington, this book has already received critical acclaim, and is a promising debut for National Lottery Arts Grant-funded Alchemy Press.
MACABRE DELIGHTS & TWISTED TALES by John B. Ford, A5, 84pp, £3 (USA $6:50) from J.B. Ford, 95 Compass Crescent, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LX. Collection of macabre and morbid tales influenced by William Hope Hodgson, introduced by Simon Clark, and illustrated by Chris Webb, Desmond Knight, Colin Langeveld, and Gerard Gaubert.
GOING POSTAL edited by Gerard Daniel Houarner, ISBN 0-917053-11-7, A5, 125pp p/b, $11:50 Space and Time, 138 W. 70th Street (4B), New York, NY 10023-4468, USA (http://www.bway.net/~natalia/space&time.htm). Taking out your frustrations on other people used to be the perogative of US postal workers, but 'going postal' is not just for postal workers any more. 19 original tales of dark fantasy, SF and horror from James Dorr, Charlee Jacob, Gordon Linzner, Bentley Little, Daniel Pearlman, Tom Piccirilli, Melanie Tem, Don Webb, and others.
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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.
CONTRABAND magazine, the journal of fugitive thought, mixing thought-provoking essays with short stories, poetry, satire, and artwork, is looking for experimental and soft/sociological science fiction, fantasy, and magic realism. Send submissions with proper return postage to Contraband, P.O. Box 8565, Atlanta, GA 31106, USA.
FOR SALE
CHARNEL HOUSE contains 40 pages of macabre short stories, strange but true articles, dark erotic artwork, reviews of various films, Eros adult comics, videos, filth and depravity. It may repulse you, but you'll keep coming back for more. The most controversial small press publication available to date. Send £3 payable to "Mr C. Hessel" to Luthers, P.O. Box 29, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield HD7 5YL.
Since 1992 SCARED TO DEATH has been bringing you the very best in modern horror fiction. In 1997 alone we published work by Ramsey Campbell, Peter James, Steve Harris, Mark Morris, Guy Smith, Shaun Hutson and many more top names. In 1998, Scared to Death is bigger and better than ever before, illustrated by top genre artist Desmond Knight and also featuring articles, interviews, reports, readers' letters and full colour photo features – you'll not want to miss out on this fantastic publication popular in the UK and USA. For a year's subscription send a cheque/P.O. for £9 (£2:50 single issue) to: Joe Rattigan, 1 Hill Farm Close, Oldham, Gtr Manchester OL8 2LL.
