The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Fifth Annual Collection
- Автор: Датлоу Эллен, Виндлинг Терри
- Год: 1992
- Язык: английский
- Год: St.Martin’s Press
- Жанр: Ужасы
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Cemetery Dance, edited by Richard T. Chizmar, is still the small-press magazine to watch since The Horror Show died. Good covers (although the spring cover resembles Jill Bauman s cover for an Alan Ryan novel several years ago) and some good fiction by Joseph Coulson and William Relling, Jr., Melanie Tem, Graham Masterton, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ramsey Campbell, G. Kyle White, Steven Spruill, S. K. Epperson, Bentley Little, Gene Michael Higney, Bill Pronzini, Tom Elliott' Nancy Holder, John Shirley and Wayne Allen Sallee.
After Hours, edited by William G. Raley, redesigned its ninth issue, eliminating story illustrations, which allows slightly more room for text. There was excellent fiction in issues 9-11 by Steve Rasnic Tem, Molly Brown, Robert Grey, Cecily Nabors, Steve Antezak, T. G. Som, Suzi K. West, Eric Del Carlo, Warren Brown, John Dowling and Gorman Bechard.
Deathrealm, edited by Mark Rainey, always has good interior art. I felt the fiction was weak this year although there were good stories by Barb Hendee and Jeff Vandermeer. #15 changed from digest-size to large format.
Not One of Us, edited by John Benson, changed to a new computer with issue #7; this makes the type much more legible. This small-sized magazine usually has readable fiction and some good art. In 1991 there was good horror fiction by Gary A. Braunbeck, Mark McLaughlin and Steve Vernon, and good art by Ray Bashom, John Borkowski and Bucky Montgomery.
Prisoners of the Night, an adult vampire magazine edited by Alayne Gelfand, had a cover (on #5) that looked like it belonged on a coloring book. Good fiction (surprising in light of the art) by Robert Grey, Wendy Rathbone and Taerie Bryant.
2AM edited by Gretta M. Anderson continues to look good, with a clean, legible design. The fiction is always literate if not necessarily frightening. Seems to go more for the repellent factor than fear or horror. Relling’s column continues to enlighten, entertain and offend. Good fiction by Brian Skinner, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Earl Murphy and John Coyne.
Grue edited by Peggy Nadramia also continues to look good, with a fall 1991 cover by Rick Lieder. Excellent fiction and poetry by Norman Partridge, Lisa Lepovetsky, Darrell Schweitzer, and Robert Frazier appeared in issues #13 and #14, the latter a poetry supplement.
Tekeli-li! Journal of Terror (since shortened to Tek!) is a new fiction and nonfiction magazine edited by Jon B. Cooke. It makes a serious attempt at reviewing horror. Two overlapping film articles by the same contributor should have been combined and I think the piece on American Psycho misses the boat, but on the whole it’s a good start. Legible type and good-looking art. Good fiction by James Thompson and Douglas Clegg.
Nyctalops, edited by Harry O. Morris, is apparently the last issue of the magazine after a hiatus of seven years. Morris is known for his dark fantasy/horror art, particularly in the small press (although he’s beginning to do book covers. I believe he’s the cover artist of Ron Dee’s Dusk and the reprint of Michael McDowell’s Toplin (both Abyss), the latter of which is illustrated throughout. So it shouldn’t be surprising that Nyctalops features terrific art by T. M. Caldwell, J. K. Potter, H. E. Fassl and Morris himself. Serious articles and reviews, good fiction and poetry by Thomas Ligotti, Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Kevin Knapp. The letters are quite old, some dating from seven years ago, and probably should have been tossed. But altogether, a lovely package.
Weirdbook, a World Fantasy Award winner, is a Lovecraftian/weird tales magazine that has been lovingly edited by W. Paul Ganley for many years. While much of the material is not to my taste, I thought there were good poems by Joseph Payne Brennan and Ace G. Pilkington and good stories by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Brian McNaughton.
Tales of the Unanticipated edited by Eric M. Heideman is published every eight months. There was good fiction in issue #8 by Kij Johnson, Martha A. Hood and Jamil Nasir.
Other magazines in and out of the field that published good horror stories or poems were: Aboriginal SF; Amazing Stories; Haunts; The Nation; Figment; The Sterling Web; Starshore; The New Yorker; N.Y. Press; Aurealis; BBR; Glamour; Argonaut; Dark Horizons; Eldritch Tales; Outlaw Bikers Tattoo Review; Xenophi-lia; Twisted; Midnight Zoo; A Magazine of American Culture; Dreams & Nightmares; Skeleton Crew. Authors included Sandra Paradise, A. J. Austin, K. D. Wentworth, Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Norman Partridge, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Tom Elliott, Regina deCormier-Sheker-jian, Don Webb, Michelle Marr, Octavio Ramos, Jr., Charles Sheffield, Jessica Greenbaum, Ian Frazier, Mike Romath, E. R. Van Helden, Stephen Dedman, Diana Reed, Tod Mecklem, Joyce Carol Oates, George W. Smythe, Peter Relton, Gary A. Braunbeck, Michael Arnzen, Carl Buchanan, Miroslaw Lipinski, Janet Gluckman, Ken Wisman, R. H. W. Dillard, Michael Arnzen, Lawrence Schimel and Nicholas Royle.
Many small-press magazines appear irregularly and are only available through subscription. Here are addresses and prices for some of the better ones. Only U.S. subscription prices are listed. For overseas information, query the publication. I m including publications unavailable on U.S. newsstands. Noctulpa, which comes out each spring, can be ordered from 140 Dickie Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314. Query for information and price; Cemetery Dance, P.O. Box 858, Edge-wood, MD 21040, $15 for a one-year subscription (quarterly); After Hours, P.O. Box 538, Sunset Beach, CA 90742-0538, $14/one-year subscription (quarterly); Deathrealm, 3223-F Regents Park, Greensboro, NC 27405, $15 payable to Mark Rainey for a one-year subscription (quarterly); Not One of Us, 44 Shady Lane, Storrs, CT 06268, $10.50 payable to John Benson for a three-issue subscription; Prisoners of the Night, MKSHEF Enterprises, P.O. Box 368, Poway, CA 920740368, $12 (one issue, 102 pages); 2AM, P.O. Box 6754, Rockford, IL 611251754, $19 payable to Gretta M. Anderson, publisher, for a one-year subscription (quarterly); Grue, Hell’s Kitchen Productions, Inc., P.O. Box 370, Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108-0370, $13 payable to Hell’s Kitchen Production, Inc. for a three-issue, one-year subscription; Tek! Journal of Terror, do Jon B. Cooke, 106 Hanover Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02861, $20 payable to Montilla Publications for a one-year subscription (quarterly); Haunts, P.O. Box 3342, Providence, RI 02906-0742, $13 for a one-year subscription (quarterly); Weirdbook, W. Paul Ganley, Publisher, Box 149, Buffalo, NY 14226-0149, 7 issues for $25 (no regular schedule, $7.15 per issue); Midnight Zoo, 544 Ygnacio Valley Road, #13, P.O. Box 8040, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, $37 for a one-year subscription (seven issues), California residents add 8.25% sales tax; Tales of the Unanticipated, P.O. Box 8036, Lake Street Station, Minneapolis, MN 55408, $10 payable to the Minnesota SF Society, for a three-issue subscription; Eldritch Tales, Crispin Burnham, Eldritch Tales, 1051 Wellington Road, Lawrence, KS 66049, $24 payable to Crispin Burnham for four issues (irregular); Dreams & Nightmares (poetry), David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Road, Tuscaloosa AL 35404, $5 for a one-year subscription (quarterly).
For more information on the horror/dark fantasy field subscribe to: Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle, the oldest and best newsmagazines covering science fiction (primarily), fantasy and horror. They each periodically cover books published, market reports for the U.S. and Great Britain, domestic and foreign publishing news, and convention reports and listings. Ordering information for each are in the acknowledgments at the front of this book. Charles L. Brown is publisher and editor of Locus and Andrew I. Porter is editor and publisher of Science Fiction Chronicle.