Thread: Horror Magazine

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What is your favorite horror magazine?

For me, I have to go for Fangoria magazine #1!! As well as for Rue Morgue magazine is OK, that magazine is based in Canada. Yeah, of course, Rue Morgue magazines are out there in USA, so you can check with Waldens Book store or any other stores like Food Lion, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, maybe inside the mall...

This is going back. Going WAY BACK. Back in the 1960's we had a little publication called "Famous Monsters of Filmland" (Gawd, how antiquated that name sounds these days!) that was head & shoulders above anything else that has come down the pike over the years. FMOF inspired a lot of kids in the '60's who later became Film Makers such as Steven Speiberg, John Carpenter, George Romero, George Lucas, David Cronenberg and John Landis. Check it out. Some things get better with age. Horror is one of them.

I had alot of those mags, "Famous Monsters", during the 1950's.
After awhile alot of the mags had alot of the same pictures in them, because all that was availble were the pictures the studio handed out or put on their movie posters, of course maybe there was a copyright problem with just publishing any old photo from someone else's movie?
I cut up a couple of these mags and put those studio pics into a scrap album.
Some of those old studio stills were pretty amazing and stimulating, though.
The other 1950's stimulating images was the fantastic box art seen on plastic model kits of air planes and ships and tanks.
Too bad our national government had to legislate against gruesome horror comic artwork and manditated truth in box lid art, showing only one plane if only one plane kit was actually inside the box.
My cousin had a couple of boxes full of those old horror comics, they were scay!

While Fangoria is good, as well as Rue Morgue.
I prefer Haunted Attraction magazine & Dark Realms. They offer things that the others definately don't.

http://hauntedattraction.com

http://www.monolithgraphics.com/darkrealms.html

I'm a big fan of Rue Morgue, Haunted Attraction (of course!) and occasionally get a look at a Fangoria... I loved Fango from the day it was new until the late 80's, and then it just became very samey to me. It gets kinda tiresome anymore, but it used to be a great mag. Every so often they capture that feeling, but it's rare. So I just go into my Fango collection from decades ago!
Among that collection are boxes of Famous Monsters (which I seem to always be looking through, love that 60's magic!) and not a few issues of Scary Monsters, Scarlet Street, Chiller Theatre, Monsterscene, and more.
Eh, now I have to go look through them again, hahaha!


Mike C.