![]() ![]() ![]() Grant are preparing books of original stories. Anthologists as astute as Kirby McCauley, Ramsey Campbell and Charles L. Magazines as diverse as Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mike Shayne Mystery, and Penthouse make it a point to carry good horror fiction with some frequency. When this series of anthologies was launched a few years ago, there still was no regular professional magazine devoted to horror fiction. It differed from professional magazines in several respects, notably its small circulation, and the lack of newsstand distribution but it was not quite a fan magazine in the sense of the science fiction fanzines, either, principally because it was trying to provide a serious outlet for horror writing that did not exist at that time in any professional magazine. In 1957 Joseph Payne Brennan began a small magazine called Macabre, which ran short weird fiction and poetry. ![]()
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