Ansible is a highly entertaining monthly SF and fantasy newsletter/gossip column edited by David Langford. It is available free electronically by sending an email to: [email protected] with a subject line reading “subscribe”, or you can receive the print version by sending a stamped and addressed envelope to Ansible, 94 London Road, Reading, Berks RG1 5AU, UK. Back issues, links and book lists are also available online.
Black Static (www.ttapress.com) is the UK’s premier horror fiction magazine, produced bi-monthly by the publishers of Interzone. Six-and twelve-issue subscriptions are available, along with a new lifetime subscription, from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB, UK, or from the secure TTA website. Email: [email protected]
Dark Discoveries (www.darkdiscoveries.com) sets out to unsettle, edify and involve with fiction, interviews and nonfiction and is published irregularly. JournalStone Publications, 199 State Street, San Mateo, CA 94401, USA. Email: [email protected]
The Ghosts & Scholars M. R. James Newsletter (www.pardoes.info/roanddarroll/GS.html) is a scholarly journal published roughly twice a year. It is dedicated to the classic ghost story and, as the title implies, to M. R. James in particular. Two-issue subscriptions are available from Haunted Library Publications, c/o Flat One, 36 Hamilton Street, Hoole, Chester CH2 3JQ, UK. Email: pardos@ globalnet.co.uk
Horror Society (www.horrorsociety.com).
The Horror Zine (www.thehorrorzine.com) is a monthly online magazine edited by Jeani Rector that features fiction, poetry, interviews and reviews.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (www.smallbeerpress.com/lcrw), Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA 01027, USA. Email: [email protected]
Locus (www.locusmag.com) is the monthly newspaper of the SF/fantasy/horror field. Contact: Locus Publications, PO Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661, USA. Subscription information with other rates and order forms are also available on the website. Email: [email protected]. You can also now subscribe to a digital edition at: www.weightlessbooks.com/genre/nonfiction/locus-12-month-subscription
Locus Online (www.locusmag.com/news) is an excellent online source for the latest news and reviews.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (www.fandsf.com) has been publishing some of the best imaginative fiction for sixty-five years. Edited by Gordon Van Gelder, and now published bi-monthly, single copies or an annual subscription are available by US cheques or credit card from: Fantasy & Science Fiction, PO Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA, or you can subscribe via the website.
Morpheus Tales (www.morpheustales.com) is billed as “the UK’s darkest and most controversial fiction magazine” with quarterly print issues and reviews appearing on the website and myspace versions (www.myspace.com/morpheustales).
[Nameless]: A Biannual Journal of the Macabre, Esoteric and Intellectual … (www.namelessmag.com) features fiction, articles and reviews in an on-demand paperback format. Cycatrix Press, 16420 SE McGillivary Blvd., Ste. 103-1010, Vancouver, WA 98683, USA. Email: [email protected]
Nightmare: Horror & Dark Fantasy (www.nightmare-magazine.com) edited by John Joseph Adams is an excellent online site for fiction (both new and reprint), interviews and podcasts.
The Paperback Fanatic (www.thepaperbackfanatic.com) is an attractive full colour magazine devoted to sleaze and exploitation authors, artists and publishers. It is available by subscription only. Email: [email protected]
Rabbit Hole is a semiregular newsletter about Harlan Ellison® that also offers exclusive signed books by the author. A subscription is available from The Harlan Ellison® Recording Collection, PO Box 55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413-0548, USA.
Rue Morgue (www.ruemorgue.com), is a glossy monthly magazine edited by Dave Alexander and subtitled “Horror in Culture & Entertainment”. Each issue is packed with full colour features and reviews of new films, books, comics, music and game releases. Subscriptions are available from: Marrs Media Inc., 2926 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON M6P 1Y8, Canada, or by credit card on the website. Email: [email protected]. Rue Morgue also runs the Festival of Fear: Canadian National Horror Expo in Toronto. Every Friday you can log on to a new show at Rue Morgue Radio at www.ruemorgueradio.com and your horror shopping online source, The Rue Morgue Marketplace, is at www.ruemorguemarketplace.com
Shadows & Tall Trees (www.undertowbooks.com) is changing format to an annual trade paperback and ebook. Editor Michael Kelly is open to previously unpublished submissions of quiet, literary horror fiction. Email: [email protected]
Space and Time: The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction (www.spaceandtimemagazine.com) is published at least twice a year. Single issues and subscriptions are available from the website or from: Space and Time Magazine, 458 Elizabeth Avenue #5348, Somerset, NJ 08873, USA.
Subterranean Press Magazine (www.supterraneanpress.com/magazine).
Supernatural Tales (www.suptales.blogspot.com) is a fiction magazine edited by David Longhorn, with subscriptions available via PayPal, cheques or non-UK cash. Supernatural Tales, 291 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead NE8 4NN, UK. Email: [email protected]
Video WatcHDog (www.videowatchdog.com) describes itself as “The Perfectionist’s Guide to Fantastic Video” and is published bi-monthly from PO Box 5283, Cincinnati, OH 45205-0283, USA. One year (six issues) subscriptions are available from: [email protected]
Weird Tales (www.weirdtalesmagazine.com) Nth Dimension Media Inc., 105 West 86th Street, Ste 307, New York, NY 10024-3412, USA.
DEALERS
Bookfellows/Mystery and Imagination Books (www.mysteryandimagination.com) is owned and operated by Malcolm and Christine Bell, who have been selling fine and rare books since 1975. This clean and neatly organized store includes SF/fantasy/horror/mystery, along with all other areas of popular literature. Many editions are signed, and catalogues are issued regularly. Credit cards accepted. Open seven days a week at 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, California 91203, USA. Tel: (818) 545-0206. Fax: (818) 545-0094. Email: [email protected]
Borderlands Books (www.borderlands-books.com) is a nicely designed store with friendly staff and an impressive stock of new and used books from both sides of the Atlantic. 866 Valencia Street (at 19th), San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Tel: (415) 824-8203 or (888) 893-4008 (toll free in the US). Credit cards accepted. Worldwide shipping. Email: [email protected]
Cold Tonnage Books (www.coldtonnage.com) offers excellent mail-order new and used SF/fantasy/horror, art, reference, limited editions etc. Write to: Andy & Angela Richards, Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel: +44 (0)1276-475388. Email: [email protected] Richard Dalby issues an annual Christmas catalogue of used Ghost Stories and other supernatural volumes at very reasonable prices. Write to: Richard Dalby, 4 Westbourne Park, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Y012 4AT. Tel: +44 (0)1723 377049.
Dark Delicacies (www.darkdel.com) is a Burbank, California, store specializing in horror books, toys, vampire merchandise and signings. They also do mail order and run money-saving book club and membership discount deals. 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505, USA. Tel: (818) 556-6660. Credit cards accepted. Email: [email protected]
DreamHaven Books & Comics (www.dreamhavenbooks.com) became an online and mail-order outlet only in early 2012, offering new and used SF/fantasy/horror/art and illustrated etc. with regular catalogues (both print and email). Credit cards accepted. Tel: (612) 823-6070. Email: [email protected]
Fantastic Literature (www.fantasticliterature.com) mail order offers the UK’s biggest online out-of-print SF/fantasy/horror genre bookshop. Fanzines, pulps and vintage paperbacks as well. Write to: Simon and Laraine Gosden, Fantastic Literature, 35 The Ramparts, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8PY, UK. Credit cards and Pay Pal accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1268-747564. Email: [email protected]
Ferret Fantasy, 27 Beechcroft Road, Upper Tooting, London SW17 7BX, UK. Email: [email protected]
. Tel: +44 (0)208-767-0029.
Horrorbles (www.horrobles.com), 6731 West Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, IL 60402, USA. Small, friendly Chicago store selling horror and sci-fi toys, memorabilia and magazines that has monthly specials and in-store signings. Specializes in exclusive “Basil Gogos” and “Svengoolie” items. Tel: (708) 484-7370. Email: [email protected]
Kayo Books (www.kayobooks.com) is a bright, clean treasure trove of used SF/fantasy/horror/mystery/pulps spread over two floors. Titles are stacked alphabetically by subject, and there are many bargains to be had. Credit cards accepted. Visit the store (Wednesday–Saturday, 11:00a.m. to 6:00p.m.) at 814 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA or order off their website. Tel: (415) 749 0554. Email: [email protected]
Iliad Bookshop (www.iliadbooks.com), 5400 Cahuenga Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601, USA. General used bookstore that has a very impressive genre section, reasonable prices and knowledgeable staff. They have recently expanded their fiction section into an adjacent building. Tel: (818) 509-2665.
Porcupine Books offers regular catalogues and extensive mail-order lists of used fantasy/horror/SF titles via email [email protected] or write to: 37 Coventry Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4QR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8554-3799.
Reel Art Collectibles (www.reelart.biz), 6727 W. Stanley, Berwyn, Illinois 60402, USA. Nicely designed Chicago store selling movie material, classic comics, vintage toys and rare books. They also host celebrity signings and have regular warehouse sales. Tel: 1-708-288-7378. Facebook: Reel Art, Inc.
Kirk Ruebotham (www.biblio.com/bookstore/kirkruebotham-bookseller-runcorn-cheshire) is a mail-order only dealer, who specializes in mainly out-of-print and second-hand horror/SF/fantasy/crime fiction and related nonfiction at very good prices, with regular catalogues. Write to: 16 Beaconsfield Road, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4BX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1928-560540. Email: [email protected]
The Talking Dead is run by Bob and Julie Wardzinski and offers reasonably priced paperbacks, rare pulps and hardcovers, with catalogues issued very occasionally. They accept wants lists and are also the exclusive supplier of back issues of Interzone. Credit cards accepted. Contact them at: 12 Rosamund Avenue, Merley, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1TE, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1202-849212 (9:00a.m.–9:00p.m.). Email: [email protected]
Ygor’s Bo oks specialises in out-of-print science fiction, fantasy and horror titles, including British, signed, speciality press and limited editions. They also buy books, letters and original art in these fields. Email: [email protected]
ONLINE
Cast Macabre (www.castmacabre.org) is the premium horror fiction podcast that is “bringing fear to your ears”, offering a free horror short story every week.
Fantastic Fiction (www.fantasticfiction.co.uk) features more than 2,000 bestselling author biographies with all their latest books, covers and descriptions.
FEARnet (www.fearnet.com) is a digital cable channel dedicated to all things horror, including news, free movie downloads (sadly not available to those outside North America) and Mick Garris’ online talk show Post Mortem.
Hellnotes (www.hellnotes.com) offers news and reviews of novels, collections, magazines, anthologies, nonfiction works, and chapbooks. Materials for review should be sent to editor and publisher David B. Silva, Hellnotes, 5135 Chapel View Court, North Las Vegas, NV 89031, USA. Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (www.irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com) features a diverse range of articles and reviews, along with a regular “Lost Souls” feature focusing on overlooked individuals in the genre.
The Monster Channel (www.monsterchannel.tv) bills itself as “the first and only independent interactive horror channel!” The 24/7 streaming channel includes first run indie horror movies, retro VHS gore and hosts horror classics.
Pseudopod (www.pseudopod.org), the premier horror fiction podcast, continues to offer a free-to-download, weekly reading of a new or classic horror fiction by a variety of voices. The site remains dedicated to paying their authors while providing readings for free and offering the widest variety of audio horror fiction currently available on the net.
SF Site (www.sfsite.com) has been posted twice each month since 1997. Presently, it publishes around thirty to fifty reviews of SF, fantasy and horror from mass-market publishers and some small press. They also maintain link pages for Author and Fan Tribute Sites and other facets including pages for Interviews, Fiction, Science Fact, Bookstores, Small Press, Publishers, E-zines and Magazines, Artists, Audio, Art Galleries, Newsgroups and Writers’ Resources. Periodically, they add features such as author and publisher reading lists.
Vault of Evil (www.vaultofevil.wordpress.com) is a site dedicated to celebrating the best in British horror with special emphasis on UK anthologies (they seem to like this series a bit better now). There is also a lively forum devoted to many different themes at www.vaultofevil.proboards.com
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