Small Press Ark

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THE BASER PULPS

Two by two into the ark...
Pre-2000 mags only, please.
Please add your own pairs.
Twelve pages of these covers here.

... this is not intended to be a systematic, historic document but a vehicle (ark) for wild animals, for a splurge of the baser pulps, a hunger-deck cresting the zinic-routes of dark imagination, where the enjoyment is random, browsing the 'orrorfaces of yesteryear, white-water rafting, even wading through unexpected dream zones, a colour symphony of images...
To find some would be to lose others.

NB: EDIT: Those covers provided originally by 'weirdmonger' are a few of the very many contributor copies of DF Lewis (www.nemonymous.com), who happens no longer to own them as physical magazines. These pictures were originally shown in 2007 on the Vault of Evil HERE with more intermediary commentary. (6 Feb 2012)

Twisted Magazine #1 1996
Tales of Horrific Strangeness
Cover: Chad Savage
Editor: G Keith Burgin (BlackSoul Publishing)
Work by John B Rosenman, Jeff Strand, Michael Huyck, DFL, Dietmar Trommeshauser, Norm Partridge (interview) and others.

Dagon #26 1989
Front Cover: Jeff Salmon (illustration of 'Wall Pack')
Back Cover: Martin McKenna (illustration of 'Etepsed Egnis')
Editor: Carl T Ford (Dagon Press)
Stories by DFL and DFL Bibliography, plus 'Etepsed' by PF Jeffery, 'Brewing up with Des Lewis' by Mark Samuels, a photo in 1967 of DFL and PFJ with 'The Egnisomicon', & a photo in 1989 of DFL, PFJ and MS on cemetery park bench.
Dagon became a long-running, award-winning mag that started life in the mid-eighties as a Call of Cthuhu RPG mag.

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redbrain said:

Of course I don't have a scanner. Crumbs!

Here is a pair of scanners:

I think this ran for 11 issues from 1988 to 1991.

Contained stories of SF, Fantasy - *and* Horror, as it turned out.
Published my two series: Murky's Tales and Zodiac of Murkales over six issues.

Both covers above done by Chris James (one of the mag's editors). A confusing editorial history. I think other editors were Kevin Lyons and/or Kevin White.
A mag from the Isle of Wight, UK

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Fantasy Tales #5 (Winter, 1979)

David Lloyd

From the early days, when it was non-profit and published occasionally, under the editorship of Stephen Jones & David Sutton. David Lloyd's cover illustrates HPL's posthumous collaboration with Brian Lumley the Thing In The Moonlight.

Spectral Tales #1 (1988)

Jason C. Eckhardt

Robert M. Price's Stateside attempt at something in a Ghosts & Scholars vein sadly only survived for two splendid issues. I've always had a soft spot for that cover!

Dr. John Warwick Montgomery - God's Devil
Peter Cannon - An Episode In Prep School History
Frederick Cowles - The Thing From The Sea
Jason C. Eckhardt - A Tale Of A Lonely Island
Lin Carter - Fear (verse)
S. T. Joshi - M. R. James And The Limitations Of The Ghost Story (article)

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Dec 21, 2007 21:19:48 GMT @dagstine said:

Hi, I hope you don't mind my jumping in here. I have some pre-2001 zines I'd love to show you. I need to take pictures of some more, including Pablo Lennis, 2AM Magazine, and a few others. I hope these will suffice for now:







(The Ultimate Unknown #23; 2001, featuring Des Lewis)

Lawrence Dagstine
www.lawrencedagstine.com

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Peeping Tom # 25 1997
This was the seminal UK Horror Small Press Mag.
Produced by David Bell and Stuart Hughes.
34 issues 1990-1999
This issue's cover by Madeleine Finnegan

Daarke World #3 1993
Australian Mag.
Produced by T Johnathon Brook and Chris A Masters.
This cover: Des Waterman.

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Nasty Piece of Work #4 1997
Another significant UK Small Press Horror Mag.
Always seemed so chunky and glossy, and so cheap to buy!
1996 - 1999 11 issues?
This one contains work by Tim Lebbon, Paul Finch, Peter Tennant, Trevor Denyer, Jason Gould, Derek Fox, John B Ford, Mark McLaughlin, Rhys Hughes and others.
Editor: the wonderful David A Green
This cover's art: Colin Langeveld

Musing Magazine Vol 2 No 2 1997
USA Horror Mag
Editor-in-Chief: Jack McCallum
The only writers I've heard of in this issue: John Benson (who ran the excellent mag NOT ONE OF US to be featured later in this series), Tina Reigel, Donna Taylor Burgess (who produced the horror mag 'The Blue Lady' which I'll feature later in this series).
This cover's art: Anthony Owens

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Udolpho: Vol 24 (Gargoyles Head Press, Spring 1996)

Gerald Gaubert: Page Three Girl

P. J. Murray-Lawson - The Mirror Of Decadence: Marcel Schwob
Dr. John Fleetwood - A Grisly Cargo
De La Motte Fouque - Peter Schlemihl
Ellen Macardry - Interview With The Vampire Hunter


Udolpho: Vol 26 (Gargoyles Head Press, Autumn 1996)

Gerald Gaubert: Jael & Sisera from The Song of Deborah (Judges V)

Martin Pallot - The Unquiet Grave
Andrew Phelvin - At The Outer Limits
Interview With Patrick McGrath
Jonathan Little - Orientalism
Barbara Paknadel - Pierre Loti
Mme Emily de Laszowska Gerand - Transylvanian Superstitions
Tanya Lloyd - Borley Rectory


Long overdue a thread to itself, Jennie Gray's Udolpho was my source for most things body snatching, gruesome medical experiments, vampires, spectres, ghastly deaths and what have you throughout the 'nineties. For the time being, the magazine of the Gothic Society will have to content itself with a swish seat on the Ark. I seem to remember that the endearing illustration of miss thingyroach drawers caused a few raised eyebrows on publication.

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Like those UDOLPHOs , Demonik. Never heard of it before!

Here are two more for the Ark from my collection:



Psychotrope #6 (1998)
1994 - 2000 (8 issues)
I think this must have been my all time favourite Small Press mag of the period.
Its words on the front sum it up: "Tales of mad love, psychological horror and surrealism"
It had its own definite character.
Mastermind: Mark Beech
This issue contains work by Mark McLaughlin, Paul Pinn, JC Hartley, Rhys Hughes, Uncle River and others.
"The cover shows a detail of work by children's illustrator, cat lover and sometime resident of Bethlem Mental Hospital, Louis Wain (1860-1939)"

Trash City # 20/21 Double (1998)
I came in around 1989 with issue 3 and lost contact after issue 23 in 2000.
Mastermind: Jim McLellan
This was not strictly a fiction mag, but it regularly contained a DFL story, and once a DFL/PFJ collaboration.
Its contents (mainly non-fiction) had the atmosphere of this cover by Rik Rawling

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Other Arkers here on Vault:

Dementia 13

The Stygian Dreamhouse

Vampy Crew

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Another pair:



The Third Alternative #3 (1994)
A significant UK slipstream/horror mag.
42 issues 1994 – 2005
It is now Black Static
TTA Press (Andy Cox)
Who also publishe(d)(s) Zene, The Fix, Interzone, Crimewave etc.
This edition contains work from Justina Robson, Tim Nickels, Allen Ashley, Steve Sneyd, Mat Coward and others.
Cover: Dave Mooring


Crypt of Cthulhu #78 (1991)
Loveable and long-lived Cthulhu mag of eighties and nineties
This issue contains work by Donald R Burleson, Lew Cthew, Robert A.W. Lowndes and others.
Mastermind: Robert M Price
Cover: Peter Smith

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Ghosts & Scholars

Ghost Story Society / All Hallows

Out of the Woodwork

My Gothic Fix

The Velvets

(Winter) Chills

Spectral Tales


Old threads not to be posted on:

The Velvet Vampire

Another 'Psychotrope' cover

Haunted Library

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I have thousands still to do. I have today changed the intro words of the very first post of this thread to reflect this. Please help.
BTW, where I've personally posted the covers, they are contributor copies, so I'm in them too!

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Two more for the Ark:



Deathrealm #28 (1996)
Major long-lived Horror mag.
I first encountered it with issue 13 in 1990 and it finished with issue 31 in 1997.
For much of its time, I had a regular column in it called 'Tentacles Across The Atlantic'
Karl Edward Wagner also wrote a regular column.
Editor and Founder: Stephen Mark Rainey
This cover: Ian McDowell

The Pseudo-Nymph (1991)
Possibly its only issue.
Wonderfully illustrated.
Mastermind: Chris Hart
Contained select stories from these mags: Auguries, BBR, Dream, Nova SF, The Scanner and Works
I think the cover is by Kevin Cullen

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THE WYRD PRESS ENTRY

This is the mother and daughter team: Lesley Wilkinson and the artist Camille Gabrielle who produced two Horror mags, Masque and Ocular, throughout the nineties, and a series of chapbooks.

Only the Horror mags below are going into the Ark. The 'Weirdmonger's Tales' (1994) is not being put in the Ark (since the Ark is not for single author chapbooks*) and is only included below to show the meticulous precision taken by Camille in producing the art. I have never met these ladies, but they put an onyx ring on the image's correct finger (a ring given to me by my grandmother when I was 18 and I still wear to this day). I never told them about this ring!!

Ocular #19 (1999)
Contains work by David Canada, M. Malefica Grendenwolf Pendragon Le Fay, Mario Petrucci, John Light and others.
More of an occult all-rounder than a horror mag, but contained horror stories.
I think the cover art is by Camille Gabrielle.

Masque #2 (1994)
Contains stories by William Meikle, Rhys Hughes, Chris Fretwell and others.
Not sure who did the cover art.

The internal art for all Wyrd Press booklets and mags was wonderful, but the many items of artwork in 'The Weirdmonger's Tales' are breathtakingly complicated, precise and staggeringly beautiful..


* The Dagon #26 shown earlier wasn't a single author chapbook but a regular edition of the mag.

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Two more for the Ark:

Picatrix 1992
Editor: Chico Kidd (AF Kidd)
I don't know if she intended it to be regular but this was the first and only issue.
Contained work by Roger Johnson, John Howard, James Puckhill-Rathbone, David G Rowlands, and (with some SF) Rick Kennett and many others.
Front Cover: AF Kidd
Other illlustrations: the incomparable Dallas Clive Goffin

Pluto's Orchard 1997
Trance Fiction
Editor: Michael Cisco (the now quite famous writer)
Its first (and only issue?).
Contained work by Michael Cisco, Scot Peacock, Karen R Porter, Cathy Buburuz, Edillson Barsee, W Gregory Stewart, Lida Broadhurst (who was in the first issue of Nemonymous), William P Robertson, John Benson, Ann K Schwader, M. Malefica Grendelwolf Pendragon Le Fay and others.
Cover Photo: Michael Cisco

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Skeleton Crew #1 (1988)
This is the very first issue of what became THIS professional magazine with a chequered history.
Editor: Dave Hughes (to be distinguished from Dave W Hughes of 'Works' magazine who added the W to his name for that very purpose!).
It seems I had the only fiction in this first issue!
There were also some articles on Stephen King.
It became a very powerful force at that time in the Small Press horror field.
Cover: Nick McGovern

not dead, but dreaming vol. VII (1997)
This was a most loveable mag edited by the adorable Lara Haynes.
Always tied with loose thread around the spine.
I have ten issues of it: from 1995 up to 2001 when I think it finished.
Not sure of this issue's cover artist, but it contains work by Christopher Hivner, Craig Sernotti (with whom I once did several collaborations), G. Warlock Vance, Kim Traub (who I note did the cover for Vampire Junction on the Vampy Crew thread), Cindy Main and others.

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The last two from me for a while:

Urges #1 (1995)
Huntiegouke Press (Ian Hunter) produced this mag and 'Footsteps'. I have three issues of 'Urges' (Erotic Tales of Fantasy & Horror) and three issues of 'Footsteps' (Quiet Horror)(1995 - 1997)
No artwork other than the covers, but welcome for that!
No cover credits.
This issue has work by William Meikle, Trevor Denyer, Peter Valentine Timlett, Peter Tennant and others.

Voyage Issue ? (1999)
Horror mag.
I have four issues (active 1997 - 1999?)
I have actually forgotten the mag's mastermind's name, but I should know it. It's on the tip of my tongue rather than in the mag!
No cover credit.
This issue contains work by Sarah Crabtree, Robert Dunbar, AC Evans, Stuart Hughes and many others.

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Jan 12, 2008 1:22:58 GMT @poesque said:

Dark Horizons #28 (1985)
Cover: Mark Dunn


Etchings & Odysseys #10 (1987)
Cover: H.P. Werner