I was sorting out boxes of old magazines
and fanzines recently and came across some issues of Fantasy Tales. This A5-sized magazine was edited and produced by
Stephen Jones and David Sutton, as a tribute or homage to Weird Tales and similar pulps. It began in the 1970s and ran for
several years before the title was published as a paperback book by Robinson. I
loved Fantasy Tales, especially the
self-published copies – and bought and still have every issue.
Hey, I’ve appeared in its pages! My fiction
output is quite small – an un-prolific writer, me. My story, “The Exhumation”
was included in the summer 1978 issue (volume 2, number 3). On re-reading the
story, I cringe a bit…
Also in this issue: Patrick Connolly,
Marion Pitman, John Wysocki, Pat McIntosh, Andrew Darlington, Brian Lumley, Denys
Val Baker, and artwork by Stephen Fabian (the front cover), Sylvia Starshine,
Russell Nicholson, Alan Hunter, David Lloyd, Jim Pitts and Simon Horsfall (who
illustrated my tale).
Ah, such memories…
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