Stephen Jones - The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Volume 23

The April issue of Suspense Magazine included an interview with Jack Ketchum.

Issue #117 of Granta: The Magazine of New Writing was a special devoted to “Horror” that included contributions from Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Will Self and Stephen King.

In the first issue of the year, King announced that he was giving up his column “The Pop of King” in Entertainment Weekly after seven years. However, the author did contribute a “Summer Reading List” to the magazine’s special June issue that featured Robert McCammon’s The Five , Graham Joyce’s The Silent Land and Michael Koryta’s The Cypress House , and he was back in December with a list of the year’s “Pop Culture Favourites” that included Justin Evans’ ghost novel The White Devil .

The 28 October edition of the magazine also featured an exclusive excerpt from the author’s new novel, 11/22/63 .

Canada’s Rue Morgue produced eleven high-quality issues featuring interviews with filmmakers John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Tom Holland and Guillermo Del Toro, veteran actress Carla Laemmle, singer Alice Cooper, authors Michael Louis Calvillo, John Shirley and John Landis, and editors Ellen Datlow, Christopher Golden and S. T. Joshi.

The bumper 14th Anniversary Halloween Issue celebrated twenty-five years of The Fly with interviews with director David Cronenberg and cast and crew members of both the original trilogy and the remake.

The May/June issue of the revived Famous Monsters of Filmland was a H. P. Lovecraft special, featuring articles on the author and the movie adaptations. Bob Eggleton produced covers for that issue and the following one, a special Japanese monsters ( Kaiju ) edition, which confusingly resurrected the Monster World logo on one version of the magazine. The artist also contributed an article about his connection with Godzilla.

The six issues of Tim Lucas’ Video WatcHDog included an overview of the Friday the 13th series, a tribute to French director Jean Rollin, an extensive look at the career of actor Eddie Constantine and interviews with actresses June Lockhart and Mimsy Farmer, along with all the usual reviews and columns.

To celebrate the opening of the British Library’s science fiction exhibition “Out of This World”, the Guardian newspaper’s Review section on 14 May was a “SF Special Issue”, in which some of the world’s leading SF writers were asked to choose their favourite author or novel in the genre. Russell Hoban chose H. P. Lovecraft, Liz Jensen picked The Day of the Triffids and China Miéville went for The Island of Doctor Moreau . The supplement also included a “My Hero” piece on Gene Wolfe by Neil Gaiman.

In January, Locus celebrated its 600th issue with a special feature on digital publishing that featured contributions from Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, amongst others. That same month, the magazine launched a new digital edition, which was initially offered free to overseas subscribers.

Throughout the year Locus featured interviews with Robert J. Sawyer, Gene Wolfe, Oscar-winning artist Shaun Tan, Jay Lake, Margo Lanagan, Geoff Ryman, Andy Duncan, Charles Stross, Gemma Files and a lot of new writers that most readers had probably never heard of.

Now published by Centipede Press, the first edition of Allen K’s Inhuman Magazine for a couple of years was a bumper one. Issue No. 5 included twenty-three stories (five reprints) and three poems by, amongst others, Donald R. Burleson, David Gerrold, Cody Goodfellow, Barry N. Malzberg, James A. Moore, Lisa Morton, Darrell Schweitzer, Michael Shea and Tim Waggoner. Although, as usual, editor Allen Koszwoski illustrated all the stories, there was also a Lovecraftian art gallery featuring work by Dave Carson, Jill Bauman, Bob Eggleton, Randy Broecker and others.

Centipede also brought out the second issue of The Weird Fiction Review edited by S. T. Joshi. The annual trade paperback journal included eight stories (by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Simon Strantzas, Donald R. Burleson and others), seven poems, six essays and an artist’s gallery by Alexander Binder.

With its two 2011 issues, Rosemary Pardoe’s The Ghosts & Scholars M. R. James Newsletter reached its twentieth edition. Contents included Jamesian fiction from Christopher Harman and C. E. Ward, articles by Mark Valentine and the editor, plus news, letters and reviews, along with the first publication of a 1888 supernatural poem by M. R. James.

David Longhorn’s Supernatural Tales reached its twentieth issue with six stories by Daniel Mills, Katherine Haynes, Michael Chislett and others, along with a brief reviews section.

Published both online and in print, the four issues of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction featured some impressive stories along with the book reviews. Edited by Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood, contributors included Rhys Hughes, Alison Littlewood, Maura McHugh and Daniel Mills.

The August issue of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet included fiction by Carol Emshwiller and an obscure reprint by the late Joan Aiken.

The three issues of Hildy Silverman’s Space and Time: The Magazine of Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction included fiction and poetry by Adam Corbin Fusco, Michael Kelly, Don Webb, Josepha Sherman, Don D’Ammassa, Kim Antieau, Forrest Aguirre, Darrell Schweitzer, Kurt Newton, James S. Dorr and others, along with interviews with Ben Bova and Harry Turtledove, and some excellent black and white illustrations.

The four attractive-looking issues Terry Martin’s Murky Depths: The Quarterly Anthology of Graphically Dark Speculative Fiction featured a number of comic strips (including continuing series by Richard Calder and Lavie Tidhar), plus short stories and artist interviews.

The four issues of Morpheus Tales were packed with the usual fan fiction, while the fortieth edition of Ireland’s perfect-bound Albedo One was a bumper 100-page issue that included twelve stories and interviews with James Patrick Kelly and the late Colin Harvey.

After a bonus-sized 65,000-word issue #13, the following edition marked the final publication of R. Scott McCoy’s Necrotic Tissue: The Horror Writers’ Magazine from Stygian Publications. It featured the usual mix of fiction and 100-word shorts, along with an interview with writer John P. McCann.

The two issues of James R. Beach’s Dark Discoveries included interviews with Sir Christopher Lee, Bruce Campbell, F. Paul Wilson and Allen Koszowski; articles on the Weird Tales artists, giallo cinema and the history of splatterpunk, and fiction and poetry from Gene O’Neill, Joe R. Lansdale, Nick Mamatas, Edward Lee and the late Richard Laymon, among others.

The Winter issue of Machenalia: The Newsletter of The Friends of Arthur Machen was a thin one, mostly devoted to a 2010 Australian stage production of The Great God Pan .

Issues #18 and #19 of The Paperback Fanatic included interviews with authors Basil Copper and David Case, fascinating articles by Ramsey Campbell (on Solomon Kane), Lionel Fanthorpe, Bill Pronzini and Graham Andrews (on J. G. Ballard’s US editions), a tribute to artist Jeff Jones, and an always-lively letter column.

The second issue of Martin Jones’ Bedabbled! , devoted to British horror and cult cinema, was a “Cult of Satan” edition that included informative articles on such films as Virgin Witch, Satan’s Slave, The Devil’s Men and Nothing But the Night , along with interviews with director Norman J. Warren and film-maker/ anthologist Michel Parry.