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 held in a different city each year.
SELECTED SMALL PRESS PUBLISHERS
Annihilation Press (www.annihilationpress.com), 609 N. Bridge Street, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
Burning Effigy Press (www.burningeffigy.com), Toronto, Canada. E-mail: mail@burningeffigy.com
Cemetery Dance Publications (www.cemeterydance.com), 132-B Industry Lane, Unit 7, Forest Hill, MD 21050, USA.
Comma Press (www.commapress.co.uk), 3rd Floor, 24 Lever Street, Manchester Ml 1DW, UK.
Dark Regions Press (www.darkregions.com), PO Box 1264, Colusa, CA 95932, USA.
Delirium Books (www.deliriumbooks.com), PO Box 338, North Webster, IN 46555, USA. E-mail: sales@deliriumbooks.com
Earthling Publications (www.earthlingpub.com), PO Box 413, Northborough, MA 01532, USA. E-mail: earthlingpub@yahoo.com
Elastic Press (www.elasticpress.com), 85 Gertrude Road, Norwich, UK. E-mail: elasticpress@elasticpress.com
Fantagraphics Books (www.fantagraphics.com), 7563 Lake City Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115, USA.
Gray Friar Press (www.grayfriarpress.com), 19 Ruffield Side, Delph Hill, Wyke, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD12 8DP, UK. E-mail: g.fry@blueyonder.co.uk
The Haworth Press (www.haworthpress.com), 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, New York 13904-1580, USA. E-mail: orders@haworthpress.com
Hill House, Publishers (www.hillhousepublishers.com), 491 Illington Road, Ossining, NY 10562, USA. E-mail: peter.hillhouse@gmail.com
Humdrumming (www.humdrumming.co.uk), 13B Queens Road, Bounds Green, London Nil 2QJ, UK.
JnJ Publications (www.jeffnjoys.co.uk), 3 Fairy Dell, Marton, Middlesborough TS7 8LF, England. E-mail: jeff@jeffnjoys.co.uk
MonkeyBrain Books (www.monkeybrainbooks.com), 11204 Crossland Drive, Austin, TX 78726, USA. E-mail: info@monkey brainbooks.com.
Mythos Books, LLC (www.mythosbooks.com), 351 Lake Ridge Road, Poplar Buff, MO 63901, USA.
Night Shade Books (www.nightshadebooks.com), 1423 33rd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA. E-mail: night@.nightshade books.com
Pendragon Press (www.pendragonpress.co.uk), PO Box 12, Maesteg, Mid Glamorgan, South Wales CF34 0XG, UK.
PS Publishing (www.pspublishing.co.uk), Grosvenor House, 1 New Road, Hornsea, East Yorkshire HU18 1PG, UK. E-mail: editor@pspublishing.co.uk
Rainfall Books (www.rainfallsite.com), 22 Woodland Park, Caine, Wiltshire SN11 0JX, UK.
Sabledrake Enterprises (www.saledrake.com), PO Box 30751, Seattle, WA 98113, USA. E-mail: sabledrake@sabledrake.com
Savoy Books (www.savoy.abel.co.uk), 446 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3BW, UK. E-mail: office@savoy.abel.co.uk
Screaming Dreams (www.screamingdreams.com), 13 Warn’s Terrace, Abertysswg, Rhymney, Tredegar, Gwent NP22 5AG, UK. E-mail: steve@screamingdreams.com
Side Real Press (www.siderealpress.co.uk), 34 Normanton Terrace, Elswick, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE4 6PP, UK.
Space & Time (www.cith.org/s&t_books) 138 West 70th Street (4B), New York, NY 10023^1468, USA. E-mail: glinzner@hotmail.com
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. E-mail: jill@tachyonpublications.com
Tartarus Press (tartaruspress.com), Coverley House, Carlton-in-Coverdale, Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 4AY, UK. E-mail: tartarus@pavilion.co.uk
Tasmaniac Publications (www.tasmaniacpublications.com), PO Box 45, Hagley. Tasmania 7292, Australia.
Telos Publishing Ltd (www.telos.co.uk), 61 Elgar Avenue, Tolworth, Surrey KT5 9JP, UK. E-mail: feedback@telos.co.uk
Tightrope Books (www.tightropebooks.com), 17 Greyton Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6E 2G1.
SELECTED MAGAZINES
Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest (www.apexdigest.com) is a quarterly digest magazine edited by Jason B. Sizemore. Four-issue subscriptions are available from: Apex Digest, PO Box 2223, Lexington, KY 40588-2223, USA. E-mail: jason@apexdigest.com
Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature (www.blackgate.com) is an attractive pulp-style publication that includes heroic fantasy and horror fiction. Four-and eight-issue subscriptions are available from: New Epoch Press, 815 Oak Street, St. Charles, IL 60174, USA. E-mail: john@blackgate.com
Cemetery Dance Magazine (www.cemeterydance.com) is edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish 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: info@cemeterydance.com
Dark Discoveries (www.darkdiscoveries.com) is a nicely produced quarterly magazine devoted to horror fiction and those who create it. For submission queries and subscription orders, contact: James R. Beach, Dark Discoveries Publications, 142 Woodside Drive, Longview, WA 98632, USA. E-mail: darkdiscoveries@msn.com
Dark Wisdom: The Magazine of Dark Fiction (www.darkwisdom .com) is an attractive-looking magazine published by Elder Signs Press, PO Box 389, Lake Orion, MI 43861-0389, USA. Four-issue subscriptions (US funds only) and submission guidelines are available from the website.
H. P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror (www.wildsidepress.com) is published by Wildside Press LLC. Single copies or a four-issue subscription are available (in US funds only) from: Wildside Press LLC, Attn: HPL Magazine, 9710 Traville Gateway Drive #234, Rockville, MD 20850-7408, USA. Writer and artist submission queries should be sent to lovecraft@wildsidepress.com
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: locus@locusmag.com
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (www.fandsf.com) has been publishing some of the best imaginative fiction for more than fifty years. Edited by Gordon Van Gelder, single copies or an annual subscription (which includes the double 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 online.
Midnight Street: Journeys Into Darkness (www.midnightstreet.co.uk) is a horror fiction and interview magazine. Three-issue subscriptions are available from: Midnight Street, 7 Mount View, Church Lane West, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3LN, UK. E-mail: tdenyer@ntlworld.com
New Genre (www.new-genre.com) is published annually in soft-cover book format by editors Adam Golaski (horror) and Jeff Paris (science fiction). Unsolicited submissions are welcomed up to 14,000 words. Unpublished works only, no electronic submissions. Enclose a SAE for reply. Back issues also available. New Genre, PO Box 270092, West Hartford, CT 06127, USA. E-mail: info@new-genre.com
PostScripts: The A to Z of Fantastic Fiction (www.pspublishing.co.uk) is an excellent hardcover magazine from PS Publishing. Each issue features approximately 60,000 words of fiction (SF, fantasy, horror and crime/suspense), plus a guest editorial, interviews and occasional non-fiction. Issues are also available as signed, limited editions. For more information contact: PS Publishing Ltd, Grosvenor House, 1 New Road, Hornsea, East Yorkshire HU18 1PG, UK. E-mail: editor@pspublishing.co
Rue Morgue (www.rue-morgue.com), is a glossy bi-monthly magazine edited by Jovanka Vuckovic and subtitled “Horror in Culture & Entertainment”. Each issue is packed wit
h 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, ONM6P lY8,Canada, or by credit card on the website. E-mail: info@rue-morgue.com. 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
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.
Supernatural Tales is a twice-yearly fiction magazine edited by David Longhorn. Three-issue subscriptions are available via post or order through the British Fantasy Society Store (www.britishfantasysociety.org/store). Supernatural Tales, 291 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead NE8 4NN, UK. E-mail: davidlonghorn@hotmail.com
Talebones (www.talebones.com) is an attractive digest magazine of science fiction and dark fantasy edited and published two to three times a year by Patrick Swenson. For one and two year subscriptions (US funds only) write to: 21528 104th Street Court East, Bonney Lake, WA 98391, USA. E-mail: info@talebones.com
Weird Tales (www.weirdtalesmagazine.com) is an updated version of the classic pulp title. Published by Wildside Press LLC, in association with Terminus Publishing Co, Inc. Single copies or a six-issue subscription are available (in US funds only) from: Wildside Press, 9710 Traville Gateway Drive #234, Rockville, MD 20850-7408, USA. Submissions should be sent to weirdtales@gmail.com or mailed to Weird Tales, PO Box 38190, Tallahassee, FL 32315, USA. Writers’ guidelines are available from the website. For subscriptions in the UK contact: Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Wind-lesham, Surrey, GU20 6JQ, UK (andy@coldtonnage.co.uk).
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. E-mail: bookfellows@gowebway.com
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
Ken Cowley offers mostly used SF/fantasy/horror/crime/supernatural, collectibles, pulps, videos etc. by mail order at very reasonable prices. Write to: Trinity Cottage, 153 Old Church Road, Clevedon, North Somerset, BS21 7TU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1275-872247. E-mail: kencowley@blueyonder.co.uk
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. 4213 West Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505, USA. Tel: (818) 556-6660. Credit cards accepted. E-mail: darkdel@darkdel.com
DreamHaven Books & Comics (www.dreambavenbooks.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 St, Minneapolis, MN 55406, USA. Credit cards accepted. Tel: (612) 823-6070. E-mail: dream@dreamhavenbooks.com
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. E-mail: sgosden@netcomukxo.uk
Fantasy Centre (www.fantasycentre.biz) shop (open 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday) and mail order has used SF/fantasy/ horror, art, reference, pulps etc. at reasonable prices with regular bi-monthly catalogues. They also stock a wide range of new books from small, specialist publishers. Write to: 157 Holloway Road, London N7 8LX, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20-7607 9433. E-mail: books@fantasycentre.biz
Ferret Fantasy, 27 Beechcroft Road, Upper Tooting, London SW17 7BX, UK. George Locke’s legendary mail-order business now shares retail premises at Greening Burland, 27 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ, UK (10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. weekdays; 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sundays). Used SF/fantasy/horror, antiquarian, modern first editions. Catalogues issued. Tel: +44 (0)20-8767-0029. E-mail: george_locke@hotmail.com
Ghost Stories run by Richard Dalby issues semi-regular mail order lists of used ghost and supernatural volumes at very reasonable prices. Write to: 4 Westbourne Park, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Y012 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 that has monthly specials and in-store signings. Specializes in exclusive “Basil Gogos” and “Svengoolie” items. Tel: 1-708-484-7370. E-mail: store@horrorbles.com
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: kayo@kayobooks.com
Porcupine Books offers regular catalogues and extensive mail order lists of used fantasy/horror/SF titles via e-mail brian@porcupine.demon.co.uk or write to: 37 Coventry Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4QR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8554-3799.
Kirk Ruebotham (www.abebooks.com/home/kirk61/) 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 (10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.). E-mail: kirk.ruebotham@ntlworld.com
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.-9:00 p.m.). E-mail: books@thetalkingdead.fsnet.co.uk
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: ygorsbooks@earthlink.net