The Friends of Arthur Machen (www.machensoc.demon.co.uk) is a literary society whose objectives include encouraging a wider recognition of Machen’s work and providing a focus for critical debate. Members get a hardcover journal, Faunus, twice a year, and also the informative newsletter Machenalia. For membership details, contact Jeremy Cantwell, FOAM Treasurer, Apt. 5, 26 Hervey Road, Blackheath, London SE3 8BS, UK.
The Friends of the Merril Collection (www.friendsofmerril.org) is a volunteer organization that provides support and assistance to the largest public collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror books in North America. Details about annual membership and donations are available from the website or by contacting The Friends of the Merril Collection, c/o Lillian H. Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library, 239 College Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R5, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
The Horror Writers Association (www.horror.org) is a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of writers of horror and dark fantasy. It was formed in the early 1980s. Interested individuals may apply for active, affiliate or associate membership. Active membership is limited to professional writers. HWA publishes a monthly online newsletter, and sponsors the annual Bram Stoker Awards. Apply online or write to HWA Membership, PO Box 50577, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA.
World Fantasy Convention (www.worldfantasy.org) is an annual convention held in a different (usually American) city each year, oriented particularly towards serious readers and genre professionals.
World Horror Convention (www.worldhorrorsociety.org) is a smaller, more relaxed, event. It is aimed specifically at horror fans and professionals, and is held in a different city (usually American) each year.
SELECTED SMALL PRESS PUBLISHERS
Apex Publications LLC (www.apexbookcompany.com), PO Box 24323, Lexington, KY 40524, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Ash-Tree Press (www.ash-tree.bc.ca), PO Box 1360, Ashcroft, British Columbia V0K 1A0, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
Bad Moon Books/Eclipse (www.badmoonbooks.com), 1854 W. Chateau Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92804, USA.
BearManor Media (www.bearmanormedia.com), PO Box 71426, Albany, GA 31708, USA.
Brimstone Press (www.brimstonepress.com.au), PO Box 4, Woodvale, WA 6026, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]
Burning Effigy Press (www.burningeffigy.com).
Centipede Press (www.centipedepress.com), 2565 Teller Court, Lakewood, CO 80214, USA.
Cemetery Dance Publications (www.cemeterydance.com), 132-B Industry Lane, Unit #7, Forest Hill, MD 21050, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Counterpoint Press (www.counterpointpress.com), 2117 Fourth Street, Suite D, Berkley, CA 94710, USA.
DarkArts Books (www.darkartsbooks.com).
Darkhouse Publishing (www.darkhousepublishing.com).
Dark Regions Press/Ghost House (www.darkregions.com), PO Box 1264, Colusa, CA 95932, USA.
Dark Scribe Press (www.darkscribepress.com), 10 Deer Path, Smith Point, NY 11967, USA.
DemonicClown Books (www.khpindustries.com).
Earthling Publications (www.earthlingpub.com), PO Box 413, Northborough, MA 01532, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing (www.edgewebsite.com), PO Box 1714, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2L7, Canada.
Eternal Press (www.eternalpress.ca), 206-58059 Pandora Street, Burnaby, British Columbia V5B 1M4, Canada.
The Exaggerated Press. E-mail: [email protected]
Ex Occidente Press (www.exoccidente.com). E-mail: [email protected]
Fantagraphics Books (www.fantagraphics.com), 7563 Lake City Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115, USA.
Gauntlet Publications (www.gauntletpress.com), 5307 Arroyo Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80922, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Gray Friar Press (www.grayfriarpress.com), 9 Abbey Terrace, Whitby, North Yorkshire Y021 3HQ, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
HippocampusPress(www.hippocampuspress.com),
PO Box 641, New York, NY 10156, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Horror Reanimated (www.horrorreanimated.com).
Immediate Direction Publications (www.midnightstreet.co.uk), 7 Mount View, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (www.mcfarlandpub.com), Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640, USA.
Morrigan Books (www.morriganbooks.com), Östra Promenaden 43, 602 29 Norrköping, Sweden.
Mythos Books, LLC (www.mythosbooks.com), 351 Lake Ridge Road, Poplar Buff, MO 63901, USA.
Necropolitan Press (www.necropolitan-press.com), PO Box 1217, New Paltz, NY 12561-1217, USA.
Newmedia Publishing (www.newmediapublishing.com), PO Box 546, Montvale, NJ 07645, USA.
Nightjar Press (http://nightjarpress.wordpress.com), 38 Belfield Road, Manchester M20 6BH, UK.
Night Shade Books (www.nightshadebooks.com), 1661 Tennessee Street, #3H, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Norilana Press ( www.norilana.com), PO Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396, USA.
PS Publishing Ltd (www.pspublishing.co.uk), Grosvenor House, 1 New Road, Hornsea HU18 1PG, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Raw Dog Screaming Press (www.rawdogscreaming.com), 5103 72nd Place, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Screaming Dreams (www.screamingdreams.com), 25 Heol Evan Wynne, Pontlottyn, Bargoed, Mid Glamorgan CF81 9PQ, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Shroud Publishing LLC (www.shroudmagazine.com), 121 Mason Road, Milton, NH 03851, USA.
Stygian Publications (www.necrotictissue.com), PO Box 787, Forest Lake, MN 55025, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Subterranean Press (www.subterraneanpress.com), PO Box 190106, Burton, MI 48519, USA. E-mail: subpress@earthlink. net
Tachyon Publications (www.tachyonpublications.com), 1459 18th Street #139, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Tartarus Press (http://tartaruspress.com), Coverley House, Carlton-in-Coverdale, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 4AY, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Telos Publishing Ltd (www.telos.co.uk), Beech House, Chapel Lane, Moulton, Cheshire CW9 8PQ, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Undertow Publications (www.undertowbooks.com), Pickering, ON Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
SELECTED MAGAZINES
Albedo One (www.albedo1.com) is a speculative fiction magazine from Ireland. The editorial address is Albedo One, 2 Post Road, Lusk, Co. Dublin, Ireland. E-mail: [email protected]
Ansible is a highly entertaining monthly SF and fantasy newsletter/gossip column edited by David Langford. It is available free electronically by sending an e-mail to: [email protected] with a subject line reading “subscribe”, or you can receive the print version by sending a stamped and self-addressed envelope to Ansible, 94 London Road, Reading, Berks RG1 5AU, UK. Back issues, links and book lists are also available online.
Apex Magazine (www.apexbookcompany/apex-online).
Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature (www.blackgate.com) is an attractive pulp-style publication that includes heroic fantasy and horror fiction. Subscriptions are available from: New Epoch Press, 815 Oak Street, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Black Static (www.ttapress.com) is the UK’s premier horror fiction magazine. Published bi-monthly, six- and twelve-issue subscriptions are available from TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely, Cambs CB6 2LB, UK, or from the secure TTA website. E-mail: [email protected]
Cemetery Dance Magazine (www.cemeterydance.com) is edited by Richard Chizmar and includes fiction up to 5,000 words, interviews, articles and columns by many of the biggest names in horror. For subscription information contact: Cemetery Dance Publications, PO Box 623, Forest Hill, MD 21050, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Dark Discoveries (www.darkdiscoveries.com) is a nicely produced quarterly m
agazine devoted to horror fiction and those who create it. For submission queries and subscription orders, contact: Dark Discoveries Publications, 142 Woodside Drive, Longview, WA 98632, USA. E-mail: [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. E-mail: [email protected]
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 more than sixty years. Edited by Gordon Van Gelder, and now published bi-monthly, single copies or an annual subscription (which includes the bumper October/November anniversary issue) 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 new website.
Midnight Street: Journeys Into Darkness (www.midnightstreet.co.uk).
Morpheus Tales (www.morpheustales.com).
New Genre, PO Box 270092, West Hartford, CT 06127, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
One Eye Grey (www.fandmpublications.co.uk) is described as “a penny dreadful for the twenty-first century” and contains stories (up to 3,000 words) from another London based on old folktales or ghost stories. F&M Publications, PO Box 51243, London SE17 3WP, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
The Paperback Fanatic (www.thepaperbackfanatic.com) is a fascinating magazine dedicated to old paperbacks and the people who produced and published them. With numerous interviews and many cover reproductions. E-mail: [email protected]
Rabbit Hole is a semi-regular newsletter about Harlan Ellison®. A subscription is available from The Harlan Ellison® Recording Collection, PO Box 55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413-0548, USA.
Rue Morgue (www.rue-morgue.com), is a glossy bi-monthly magazine edited by Dave Alexander and subtitled “Horror in Culture and 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. E-mail: [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
Space and Time: The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction (www.spaceandtimemagazine.com) is published quarterly. Single issues and subscriptions are available from the website or Space and Time Magazine, 1308 Centennial Avenue Ste. 101, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. In the UK and Europe, copies can be ordered from BBR Distributing, PO Box 625, Sheffield S1 3GY, UK.
Subterranean Press Magazine (www.supterraneanpress.com/ magazine)
Supernatural Tales (suptales.blogspot.com) is a twice-yearly fiction magazine edited by David Longhorn. Three-issue subscriptions are available via post (UK cheques or PayPal only) to: Supernatural Tales, 291 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead NE8 4NN, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
Tales of the Talisman (www.talesofthetalisman.com) is a speculative fiction and poetry magazine published quarterly by Hadrosaur Publications, PO Box 2194, Mesilla Park, NM 88047-2194, USA.
Weird Tales (www.weirdtalesmagazine.com) continues to seek out that which is most weird and unsettling for the reader’s own edification and alarm. Single copies or a six-issue subscription are available from: Wildside Press, 9710 Traville Gateway Drive #234, Rockville, MD 20850-7408, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. For subscriptions in the UK contact: Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6JQ, UK E-mail: [email protected]
Writing Magazine (www.writingmagazine.co.uk) is the UK’s best-selling magazine aimed at writers and poets and those who want to be. It is published by Warners Group Publications plc, 5th Floor, 31–32 Park Row, Leeds LS1 SJD, UK. E-mail: [email protected]
DEALERS
Ted Ball, who co-owned the late and lamented Fantasy Centre bookstore, has set up a new mail-order business, with catalogues issued by e-mail (with a few print copies for those who do not have Internet access). Orders by post (E.W. Ball, 3 Barmouth Avenue, Andover Road, London N7 7HT, UK). Tel: +44 (0)20 7272-3046. E-mail: [email protected]. Payment by PayPal or a cheque in UK pounds drawn on a UK bank.
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, CA 91203, USA. Tel: (818) 545-0206. Fax: (818) 545-0094. E-mail: [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. E-mail: office@borderlands-books. com
Cold Tonnage Books (www.coldtonnage.com) offers excellent mail-order new and used SF/fantasy/horror, art, reference, limited editions etc. Write to: Andy and Angela Richards, Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel: +44 (0)1276-475388. E-mail: [email protected]
Dark Delicacies (www.darkdel.com) is a friendly 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. Note the new address: 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505, USA. Tel: (818) 556-6660. Credit cards accepted. E-mail: [email protected]
DreamHaven Books and Comics (www.dreamhavenbooks. com) store and mail-order offers new and used SF/fantasy/horror/art and illustrated etc. with regular catalogues (both print and e-mail). Write to: 2301 E. 38th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55406, USA. Credit cards accepted. Tel: (612) 823-6070. E-mail: [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 PayPal accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1268-747564. E-mail: [email protected]
Ghost Stories run by Richard Dalby issues semi-regular mailorder lists of used ghost and supernatural volumes at very reasonable prices. Write to: 4 Westbourne Park, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO12 4AT, UK.
Horrorbles (www.horribles.com), 6731 West Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, IL 60402, USA. Small, friendly Chicago store selling horror and sci-fi toys, memorabilia and magazines and has monthly specials and in-store signings. Specializes in exclusive “Basil Gogos” and “Svengoolie” items. Tel: (708) 484-7370. E-mail: [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, 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.) at 814 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA or order off their website. Tel: (415) 749-0554. E-mail: [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 mailorder lists of used fantasy/horror/SF titles via e-m
ail: [email protected] or write to: 37 Coventry Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4QR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8554-3799.
Kirk Ruebotham (www.ukbookworld.com/members/kirk) is a mail-order only dealer, who sells out-of-print and used horror/SF/fantasy/crime and related non-fiction at very good prices, with regular catalogues. Write to: 16 Beaconsfield Road, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4BX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1928-560540. E-mail: [email protected]
The Talking Dead is run by Bob and Julie Wardzinski and offers reasonably priced paperbacks, rare pulps and hardcovers, with catalogues issued 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 (9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.). E-mail: [email protected]
Ygor’s Books specializes 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. E-mail: [email protected]
ONLINE
All Things Horror (www.allthingshorror.co.uk) is a genre interview site run by Johnny Mains that mainly focuses on authors, editors, artists and movie stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It also caters to reviews of both films and books, and features a short fiction section that is open to submissions.
Fantastic Fiction (www.fantasticfiction.co.uk) features more than 2,000 best-selling author biographies with all their latest books, covers and descriptions.
Hellnotes (www.hellnotes.com) is now in its fourteenth year of publication, offering news and reviews of novels, collections, magazines, anthologies, non-fiction 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. E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
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