Small Press Ark

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Dark Asylum #1 (1995)
Asylum Publications
Cover: Joe Broderick
Contains work by Stephen Laws, Peter Crowther, Chaz Brenchley, Conrad Williams and others.
I think this possibly turned out to be its only issue, after much fanfare and singing of 'Hark The Herald Angels Sing'.

Cenotaph #2 (1999)
Journal for a Macabre Life
Publisher: Kenneth W McCool
Cover: ?
Contains work by Robin Lochlann Spriggs, Kurt Newton, Charlee Jacob, Karen Porter, John Grey, James S Dorr, Nancy Bennett, Mark McLaughlin and others.

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Massacre #5 (1994)
Editor: Roberta McKeown
Cover photo: Geraint Lewis
Contains work by Bruce Holland Rogers, Neil K Henderson, Richard Kostelanetz, Frank Key and many others.

Visions #9 (1998)
Longish-running mag edited by Sean Kennedy.
Cover: Marcus Truckel
Contains work by Simon Bestwick, Catherine J Gardner, Gordon Lewis, Mhairian Trevelyn and others

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Tales of the Grotesque & Arabesque #3 (1998)
Editor: David Price
Cover: Iain Maynard
Contains work by Paul Finch, John B Ford, Catherine J Gardner, Peter Tennant, Desmond Knight, Simon Bestwick, David Cowdall, Paul Bradshaw (of ‘The Dream Zone’) and others.

Zine Zone #19 (1997)
Long running “Fanzine”
Editor: ? Cover: ?
Collections of diverse things including fiction by me & Chris Belden plus comic strips etc. A darkish phantasmagoria, I’d say!

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Butterfly & Bloomers!!- Summer edition 1996
Handmade / bespoke
The mag that had an exclamation mark as part of the its title prior to Zencore!
Regularly contained ghost stories etc. including mine.
Editor: Maggie

Black Moon #6 (1996)
Gritty Gothic stuff.
Often published Horror fiction. I have a number of issues.
Editor: Louis Sorrentino Jr.
Cover: Jamie Oberschlake
Contains fiction by Donna Taylor Burgess, Carl R. Goff, Kevin L Donihe (of Bare Bone)....

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Bone Marrow Review #3 (1992)
Horror fiction mag
Run by Richard L Levesque and Gregory L Norris
This cover: Mark Lizotte
Contains work by Brad J Boucher, Charles M Saplak, M.M. LePiccolo, Marni Scofidio (of Not at Night), Gary Lynn Morton, Denise Dumars, Wayne Edwards (of Palace Corbie), Mark McLaughlin, Joy Oestreicher (of Air Fish) and others.

Bizarre Bazaar 92
One of a series of (often erotic horror) mags and books from Stanislaus Tal who also wrote as S Darnbrook Colson (the bad boy of horror), and who did The Best of DF Lewis in 1993.
Cover: Kim Colson
Contains work by Elizabeth Massie, Edward Lee, Robert Devereaux, Chad Hensley, Gregory L Norris (of Bone Marrow Review above), Gregory Nyman, Barb Hendee, Steven L Shrewsbury, Stephen Mark Rainey (of Deathrealm), Mark McLaughlin, Lucy Taylor and many others.

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Hadrosaur Tales Vol. VIII (2000)
Oops, I wasn't intending to show mags after 1999. Anyway, I have several contributor copies of this mag (most before 2000).
Editor: David Summers
Cover: Jeff Ward
Contains work by Andrew Hook (owner of Elastic Press), Neal Asher, Gary Every and many others.

Asphalt Jungle #3 (1999)
Copyright: Future Noir Productions (Leicester)
Cover: ?
Contains work by Mark Cantrell, Matthew Firth, John Light, Gavin Salisbury, Stuart Young and others.

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Outer Darkness #12 (1997)
A very long-running mag, which I believe is still going today!
Where Nightmares Roam Unleashed
Editor: Dennis Kirk
This cover: Allen Koszowski
Contains work by: Dominic Dulley, JF Gonzalez, Margaret Smith, Nancy Bennett, Chad Savage, Russ Miller, LP Van Ness and others

Aslan #7 (1989)
Editor: Andrew Rilstone
I think this is a role-playing mag but it contains some fiction by me! Cover: ?
Also things by Alex Bardy (of Cerebretron and Sierra Heaven), Ben Goodale, Steve Hatherley...

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The Black Rose #2 (1998)
An Anthology of Supernatural/Ghost/Horror Fiction
Dublin based.
Editor: D.P. Dunning
Cover: ?
Contains work by Paul Finch. Robert Neilson, Len Maynard & Mick Sims, Philip S Jennings and others.

The Black Lily #5 (1997)
Fantasy and Medieval Review from 'Southern Goblin Productions' (Vincent Kuklewski).
But seems like a Horror Fiction mag to me!
Cover: Cathy Buburuz
Contains work by John Grey, Scott H Urban, Uncle River, Nancy Bennett, Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Mark Fewell and others.

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The Heliograph #2 (Winter 1997/98)
I have four glorious editions of this mag: one of my favourites.
The 'Zine of Improbable Pasts and Unfeasible Futures
Editor & Chief Perpetrator: Mike Grant
Cover: Burgess Shale
Contains work by Mitchell Greig, Philip Reeve, Robert Neilson and others.

Cyber-Psychos AOD #8 (1998)
Editor: Jasmine Sailing
Cover: Andi Olsen
Contains work by Mark McLaughlin, Uncle River, Geoff Jackson, Kurt Newton, Scott H Urban, Wayne Allen Sallee, Bruce Boston, Jeffrey Thomas and others

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Axiom #1 (1995)
Work by Tim Lebbon, Peter Tennant, Jon Summers, Mat Coward and others
Editor, Cover: ?

Hallowzene II (1997)
Sometimes known as Hallow*Zine
Seems to be a bit Pagan.
Editor: Neil Rhind (Murthacus Del Publishing)
Cover: ?
Contains work by Scott H Urban, Mhairian Trevelyan, Rosie Lugosi, Geoff Jackson and others

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eod #8 (1992)
Australia's horror magazine
I think eod stands for the Esoteric Order of Dagon!
Editor/Publisher: Chris A Masters
Cover: Kurt Stone
Contains work by Bill Congreve, Christopher G.C. Sequeira, Mark McAuliffe, Steven Proposch (of Bloodsongs) and others.

Transversions #8/9 (1998)
Canadian mag whose editors were: Dale L Sproule & Sally McBride
Cover: Wolf Read
Contains work by Michael Coney, Carl Sieber, Dietmar Trommeshauser, Mary Soon Lee, Gemma Files, Rick Kennett, Nancy Bennett, Ursula Pflug (who appeared in Zencore!), Bob Cook, Corinne De Winter, Phyllis Gotlieb and others.

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The Banshee #8 (1994)
I have 5 issues of this lovely Croydon mag.
The Banshee Revolutionary Company (Rachel Fones)
Cover: Rob Whitlam
Contains work by Paul Pinn, Paul McAvoy, Roddy Williams, Rhys Hughes and others

Nightfall #2 (1990)
Editor: Noel K Hannan
Cover: Dreyfus
Contains work by: Steve Sneyd, John S Townsend, Nicholas Royle, Andy Darlington, Kevin Cullen, Alan Hunter, Dallas Goffin and others

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Dark Regions Vol 3 No.1 (1995)
This is a mag like an Ace Double with two covers (the above one shows THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASTIC FICTION, the other DARK REGIONS), with material back to back and upside down to each other.
Editor: Joe Morey
Cover: Don Schank?
Work by Mike Resnick, Don Webb, Bruce Boston, Kevin J Anderson, Denise Dumars, Jeff Osier, "Mark Rainy" (presumably the misspelt name of the editor of Deathrealm).

Heliocentric Net Vol 6 No 1. (1997)
Stigmata Anthology
This is an edition of a long-running mag called 'Heliocentric Net' edited by Lisa Jean Bothell.
Cover: Jim Nesbitt
Work by Ramsey Campbell, Joe R Lansdale, Brian Hodge, Nancy Kilpatrck, David Niall Wilson, Charlee Jacob, Wayne Allen Sallee and many others

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Harsh Reality #1 (1995)
Mag of serious Satanism.
I think I had the only piece of (non-serious) fiction in it!
Editor: Lord Neilos
Cover: Ambrose Pierce
Also contains article by Paul Hine: HP Lovecraft: Visionary of the Void
The rest of the titles are very worrying...

Abraxas #8 (1995)
incorporating the Colin Wilson Newsletter
A strange mix of a mag including some fiction by me.
Editor? Cover?
Cover illo has label on box saying: "Why are people different?"

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Night Dreams #7 (1997)
Kirk S King's long-running and wonderful mag.
This one purports to publish my 1000th published story!
Cover: Derek Gray
Contains work by John Oram, Ceri Jordan, PC Attaway, Allen Ashley, Trevor Denyer, David Price, Kim Padgett-Clarke, Anthony Barker (of Tanjen Books) and others.

After Hours #7 (1990)
William G Raley's long-running and wonderful mag.
Cover: Ruth Thompson
Contains work by Tanith Lee, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ann K Schwader, Wayne Allen Sallee, Mark Fewell, David Niall and many others.