Small Press Ark

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Feb 15, 2008 10:42:33 GMT @billbunter said:

Not my favourite. But one of my favourite magazines

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Feb 15, 2008 10:52:57 GMT @billbunter said:

This is mostly to prove to myself I can work the scanner now. Rog has given me another crash course workshop. Lets hope my gold fish memory retains some of it

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My new avaultar above..

Midnight In Hell #8 (1992)
A wholly DFL special edition.
Cover: Kerry Earl
Some truly AMAZING internal artwork within this issue by Kerry Earl.
This was a long-running mag run by George Houston.
He has very recently brought it out again as a webbie:
www.midnightinhell.com/


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People are saying this Small Press Cover Ark thread is even more breathtaking than the famous panning shot in 'Atonement'! ;D

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Tanjen Books
This was a major Small Press publisher (Anthony Barker) in the mid-Nineties, with many single author works, as well as anthologies such as the one shown above:
Scaremongers edited by Andrew Haigh (1997)
Royalties donated to Animal Welfare Charities.
Cover artwork: Chris Bullock
Contains work by those on the cover above plus Peter Crowther, Rhys Hughes, Stephen Laws, Steve Harris, Nicholas Royle, Freda Warrington, Conrad Williams, Steve Savile, Joel Lane and many others.


Enigmatic Tales #9 (2000)
Long-running series masterminded by LH Maynard & MPN Sims.
Above Cover: Chris Whitlow
Contains work by Rick Kennett, Sarah Singleton, Peter Tennant, DF and Gordon Lewis, Antony Mann, David Price, John Pelan and others.

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The Hardcore #5 - Head Games (1991)
A P.O.S. Publication by the inimitable Jael Nuit
Cover: Allan Harvey?
Contains work by Scott Dorward, James Swallow, Simon Davies...

the kore #4 (1994)
a brood-spectrum alternative zine
A lovely series of mags
Staff: karen verba, Kurt Sendlinger
Cover: the kore
Contains work by Mike Vandeloecht (of Vandeloecht's Fiction Magazine), Ann K Schwader, W Gregory Stewart, Christopher Hivner, B.Z. Niditch, Joseph M Shea, Barbara W Malenky, Gregory G Nyman, Wayne Edwards (of Palace Corbie), Uncle River and many others.

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Sci-Fright #6 (1999)
Editor: Sian Ross
Cover: Iain Maynard
Contains work by Simon Logan, Steve Redwood, Mark West, Neal Asher, Peter Tennant, Andrew Darlington, Stuart Young, David Price, Ceri Jordan, Paul Finch, Jeff Holland (who once appeared in Nemonymous), Sean Russell Friend (of Overspace), and others.

Dreams from the Strangers' Cafe #2 (1994)
Editor: John Gaunt
Cover: Dean (legend) Smales
Contains work by Han Dan, Peter Tennant, Roddy Williams, Geoff Jackson, William Meikle and others.

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Dread #12 (2000)
As you can see from the cover, this mag lasted for three years and twelve issues. A nice 'un.
Editor: Bill Hughes
Cover: D.A. Kellough
Contains work by Stefano Donati, Ambrose Bierce, Ken Goldman, Todd French and others.

Dream #26 (1990)
A Weller Publication
This was a very long-running SF and Horror mag and it turned out to have some personal connection with me by hindsight. Its editors were George P Townsend and Trevor Jones, who I later learned were brothers. TJ was the owner, I think, and GT (his brother) was the editor. TJ died suddenly of an illness and that's when the mag finished (after briefly becoming New Moon magazine in the early nineties). I also learned in hindsight that GT's real name was Roger Jones whom I happened to know quite well in an offfice where I worked most of my life. He never let on to me during my time in that office who he was and that he was publishing my stuff! I still only know these facts by inference. There were also different names for reviewers and interviewers (one who interviewed me by post for DREAM) and I later learned these names were all Roger Jones (GT).
Like Cthulhu Cultus on this thread above, each issue of DREAM had exactly the same anonymously-perpetrated cover (as above) just with different numbers and dates!
This issue contains work by Keith Brooke (who lives round the corner from me), Dorothy Davies, David Gomm, Graham Andrews and others.

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Albedo One #14 (1997)
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror from Ireland
Publisher: Albedo one Productions
Cover: Martina Pilcerova
Contains work by Brian Stableford. Sean Mac Robin, David Gullen, Neil Quinlan, Severian and others.

ball magazine #1 (1993)
Editor: Douglas M Kimball
Cover: Matthew Ernst
Contains work by F.O. Dodge, Leonara K Rogers, G.L. Daum, John Grey, Paul Weinman and many others.

The Albedo cover picture can be seen more clearly here:
www.martina.sk/html/full.php3?c=d&ID_Gallery=32

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Six mags just randomly found beginning with D....

Demontia #1 (2000)
A magazine of terror
ENTER IF YOU DARE
Editor: Kathi Deavers
Cover: Joe Miles

Divine Rites #1 (1988)
The fanzine reader's fanzine
Editor: Ray Furlong
Cover: ?

Darkness Within #3 (2000)
Editor: G Durant Haire
Cover: Allen Koszowski

Death's Door (1998)
A collection of tales and poetry of a gruesome nature.
Springbeach Press
Cover: Desmond Knight

Dark Matter #1 (1998)
Editor: Christopher Hennessey-DeRose
Cover: Dave Fode

Doppelgänger #13½ (1991)
Editor: Jamie Meyers
Cover: Richard Dahlstrom

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Sackcloth & Ashes #3 (1999)
A chilling collection of horror fiction
Editors: Andrew Busby and Lisa Fillingham
Cover: Dave Fode

The Bibliofantasiac #11 (2000)
Editor? Front Cover?

The Bloody Quill #4 (1998)
International Vampire and Gothic Horror
Oops, I should have put this on the Vampy Crew thread!
Editors; J & E.L. Rogerson
Cover: J Rogerson (and Rossetti)

unreal dreams #2 (1998)
Editor: Richard Bennett (went on to start Scorpion Press that published my novella 'Agra Aska').
Cover: Phillip Bennett

The Blue Lady #5 (1996)
A Magazine of Dark Fiction
Blue Lady Publishing (Donna Taylor Burgess)
Cover: Erik Wilson

UNSANE #1 (1998)
Dark Tales of Paranoia and Urban Madness
Editors: Paul & Mandy Edwards
Cover: ?

Scavenger's Newsletter #117 (1993)
Major long-running mag of info concerning the mags I'm now showing you the covers of!
Janet Fox was its mastermind.
Often contained original fiction and poetry.
This cover: J Walker Bell

(UN(REAL)ITY) #1 (1992)
Editor: David Schindler
This cover: Karen Kluttz

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I hope you don't mind a few more today!
Still hopeful others may join in with covers from their own collection.

BTW, the only mags that I'm personally showing on this whole Ark thread are contributor copies of mine. There is only one edition being used of each mag title. These are not for sale (from me at least)!

Now for nine mags beginning with B (plus STUFF)!

Blood From Stones (1999)
This was a mag given free, I believe, at the Deansgate, Manchester branch of Waterstones by Matt Leyshon (Ariel).
This cover: John Coulthart
Contains fiction by D.M. Mitchell (of The Starry Wisdom), Simon Bestwick plus a collaboration called Wandering Pianos by me and Tim Lebbon...and an interview with Michael Marshall Smith.

Beyond the Brink #5 (1994)
Editors: Ed Hackett, Giuliana Kocura
Cover: Clair Jarvis

Burning Sky #1 (1998)
Adventures in Science Fiction Terror
Editor: Thievin' Kitty Publications (Greg F Gifune)
Cover: Holy Cow!

The Brobdingnagian Times #8 (1998)
Editor: ? from Cork, Ireland
Cover: Harland C. Ristau

Black Mole #2 (1990)
Editor: Gareth Jones
Cover: Lester Verdun

Black Hole #29 (1990)
Editor: Ian Creasey
Cover: Mark Easthope

Black Cat 115 #6 (1997)
A Black Bile Press publication
Editor: Matthew Firth
Cover: Steve Tapajna

Braquemard #4 (1996)
Editor: David Allenby
Cover: Courtesy of Dover Publications, Inc., New York

Stuff Vol II No. 2 (1994)
Editor: Andrew J Cunningham
Cover: Tippi Blevins

The Barrelhouse Vol 1, No 3 (1992)
Editor: Doug Colson
Cover: Robert Baldwin

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"Hell! This Ark's getting obsessive!"

"Hey, I feel lopsided, a bit frayed and spirally .. and I don't fancy being paired off with that ghoul upstairs!"

A Coven of Ghouls #2 (2000)
Editor: Doris Pearson
Cover: James L Hartley

Celestial Shadows #1 (1992)
Editor: Charles M Saplak
Cover: ?

Cabal Asylum #11 (1997)
Editor: Ren Hayes
Cover: Raymond E Waters III

Drift #96 (1998)
Editor: C.F.Kennedy
Cover: Robert Lacquaniti

Centaurus #2 (1996)
Editor: Mark Reynolds
Cover: Larry Tisch

Chronicles of Disorder #2 (1995)
Editor: Wayne Dean-Richards
Cover: ?

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"'Tis my Ark, mine alone!"

"'Tis mine, because I'm the Ark's very soul!"

Dark 30 Vol 1, issue 2 (1993)
An underground magazine that is not totally on the wall
Editor/Publisher: Susan R Higgins
Cover: 'White Wolf, Black Sword' by Hilton Jackson
It says inside that Stephen King receives 'Dark 30'.

fantasque #2 (1999)
Spanning the Realms of Fantastic Fiction
I have several contributor copies of editions of this mag as I have with many of the mags shown on this thread.
Editors: Pam Chillemi-Yeager & John Davies
Front cover: Dave Fode

Expressions #5 (1988)
Editor: Paula Fitzgerald
Cover: ?
Contains a fiction by me called 'Padgett Weggs II'

Fantasy Macabre #16 (1994
Beauty plus Strangeness equals Terror
Richard H. Fawcett, ye publisher
Jessica Amanda Salmonson, ye editor
Cover: Carlo Beuf (1951)

The Collective Cauldron #1 (1998)
An Exploration of the many sides of Magic and the Occult
But seems to be a Horror Fiction mag. Perhaps 'mag' stands for 'magic'?
Edited by Kelly Gunter Atlas & Jeffrey A. Stadt
Cover: FoolsView Studios

frisson vol 1, No 2 (1996)
Skull Job Productions (Scott H Urban, with whom I did many fiction collaborations).
Cover signed: SHU96

Edgar #4 (1999)
Editor: John Picinich
Cover: Mark McLaughlin

Contortions #1 (1996)
Poems of extraordinary dislocation
(Mine's a fiction!)
Shark Attack Publications
Editor: Brandon W Totman
Cover: 'Nativity' by H.E. Fassl

The Dream Cell #1 (1991)
Editor: Shan Schofield
Cover: Robert Haynes

Cobweb #7 (1990)
Editor: Geraldine Taylor
Cover: Allan Phillips

Dark Horizons #37 (1998)
This is the very long-running British Fantasy Society mag.
This issue edited and produced by Peter Coleborn, Mike Chinn and Phil Williams.
Cover: Bob Covington

CROSSINGS beyond the parallel lines (1993)
One of the productions of Strait-Jacket Publications (Melissa Gish)
Cover: Jim Garrison

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Starting off with another appropriate pair for the Ark as the top two above:

The End #2 (1994)
This was Jeffrey Thomas' mag.
A Collection of Dark Literature
Cover: Allen Koszowski

End of Millennium #8 (1997)
I have several editions of this mag and they regularly published Horror stories as part of their output.
Editor: Mr. G.A. Coyle
Cover: 'Last Pint' by Dexter with thanks to Willie B !!!

Euronymous Vol 2, No. 2 (1994)
Editor: Diana McCrary
Cover: ?

The Edge #5 (1999)
Not to be confused with the British mag called 'The Edge', yet to be featured on this thread.
Thievin' Kitty Publications (Greg F Gifune).
Cover: Keith Minnion

Dreams & Visions #7 (1991)
New Frontiers in Christian Fiction
One of my stories that was featured in Best of DF Lewis (Tal 1993) started its life in this mag.
Skysong Press (Steve Stanton)
Cover: Bob Crouch

eco-runes #3 (1995)
Front cover productions
Cover: ?

Dark Legacy Vol 2, No 1 (2001)
Sorry, this mag has a later date than intended for the Ark, but I could not resist its front cover statement:
We are not responsible for the sanity, or insanity, of the reader.
Publisher: H'chtelegoth Press
Editor: R.S. Cartwright
Cover: 'Sarnath' by Sinestro

dark eyes #2 (1998)
Third Wave Publications
Editor: James Lecky
Cover: Desmond Knight

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admin said:

been rooting through my stash

Thanks for rooting, Demonik. Mags, not potatoes!
des

"Thanks to whoever unstashed me!"

"The eyes have it!"

Dead Things Magazine#1 (1999)
Humorous Horror Fiction
Editor: David Cowdall
Cover: Steve Lines

Eulogy #8 (1995)
Adventure in the New World
Editor: Timothy G Libby
Cover: Bob Crouch

Dragon Dreaming (1998)
Editor: C.A. McCord
Cover: ?

Samhain #35 (1992)
Includes article on BBC2's Vault of Horror. Not strictly a fiction mag but often included it : here is contained my story: "How Shall I Put It?"!
Editor: John Gullidge

Dark Star Magazine #7 (1990)
Another film mag that often included fiction.
Editor: Rob Dyer

Dead Lines Magazine #3 (1995)
Crash-Landing Press (Nancy Purnell/Kurt Newton).
Cover: Roddy Williams (with whom I used to have a regular drink among others in the early nineties.)