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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Fear

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Two horror Magazines.

1. Distinguished by the exclamatory: Fear!, US digest magazine, bimonthly, 2 issues May-July 1960, published by Great American Publications; ed Joseph L Marx.

A companion to the sf magazine Fantastic Universe; some sf appears, though the contributors came mostly from the publisher's mystery magazines. The stories are routine, with the supernatural element being usually Black Magic. [MA]

2. UK slick-format magazine, 33 issues July/August 1988-September 1991, initially bimonthly, then monthly from July 1989, published by Newsfield; ed John Gilbert.

A heavily illustrated glossy magazine, Fear concentrated on Horror Movies and physical Horror in all of its forms. It was strong on author and personality profiles, and was briefly the UK's only horror-fiction magazine. It gave wide coverage to horror fiction and encouraged new writers, though little of quality emerged; Fear's best fiction, only marginally supernatural, came from more accomplished writers including John Brunner, Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Fowler, Thomas Ligotti, Darrell Schweitzer, Brian Stableford and Ian Watson. Although Fear was profitable, its publisher suffered financial losses on other magazines, which included Frighteners (3 issues July-September 1991), whose #1 had to be withdrawn from sale because of the story "Eric the Pie" by Graham Masterton (1946-    ). Newsfield's collapse also saw the demise of GMI, a companion Game magazine. [MA]



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