The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, volume 18

Trinidad-born Hollywood actress Marian Marsh [Henderson] (Violet Ethelred Krauth) died on November 9th, aged 93. Best known as the teenage Trilby O’Farrell under the mesmeric influence of John Barrymore in the 1931 Svengali, based on George du Maurier’s 1894 novel, her other credits include The Mad Genius (again with Barrymore), The Black Room (with Boris Karloff), Crime and Punishment (with Peter Lorre), The Man Who Lived Twice and Murder by Invitation. After retiring in the late 1950s, she married her second husband, pioneer aviator Clifford Henderson, who founded the California community of Palm Desert in the 1940s.

Academy Award-winning “tough guy” actor Jack Palance (Vladimir Palahniuk, aka “Walter Jack Palance”) died on November 10th, aged 87. Best known for his Westerns (including the classic Shane), Palance’s more than 125 film appearances also included Man in the Attic (as Jack the Ripper), The Silver Chalice, Amicus’ Torture Garden, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1968), Jess Franco’s Justine (aka Deadly Sanctuary), Craze, Dracula (1973, as the Count), Welcome to Blood City, H. G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come, Hawk the Slayer, Without Warning, Evil Stalks This House (aka Tales of the Haunted), Alone in the Dark, Gor and Outlaws of Gor, Batman (1989), Solar Crisis, Cyborg 2, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics, The Swan Princess, Ebenezer, The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo and Living With the Dead (aka Talking to Heaven). On TV he hosted the documentary series Unknown Powers (1978) and ABC’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (1980–85), the 1997 special Monster Mania, and narrated The Omen Legacy (2001). Palance also appeared in episodes of TV’s Lights Out, Suspense, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Night Visions.

76-year-old British character actress Diana Coupland died the same day after failing to recover from heart surgery. Her first husband was composer Monty Norman and, in 1962, she supplied the voice for Ursula Andress’ Honey Ryder singing “Underneath the Mango Tree” in the first James Bond movie, Dr. No.

R&B singer Gerald Levert, son of The O’Jays’ lead singer Eddie Levert, died on November 10th, aged 40. He suffered from a heart condition and died from an apparently accidental mixture of over-the counter and prescription drugs.

British character actor Ronnie Stevens died on November 12th, aged 81. For the 1963 puppet TV series Space Patrol (aka Planet Patrol) he voiced the characters Slim, Husky and Professor Hag-garty. Other television work included narrating the children’s series Noggin the Nog and appearing in episodes of The Avengers, Tales of the Unexpected and Goodnight Sweetheart. Stevens also appeared in the movies Some Girls Do and Morons from Outer Space.

Busy British character actor John [William Francis] Hallam died on November 14th, aged 65. Best known as the tyrannical 19th-century squire Thomas Mallen in the 1979 TV series of Catherine Cookson’s The Mallens, he also appeared in the films Quest for Love, Trial by Combat (aka Dirty Knight’s Work), The People That Time Forgot, Flash Gordon (1980), Dragonslayer, Lifeforce, Santa Glaus, Kull the Conqueror and The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo. His role as PC McTaggart in the opening scenes of The Wicker Man (1973) were cut from the original theatrical release of the cult movie. Hallam’s TV credits include The Chronicles of Narnia (1989), The 10th Kingdom, Arabian Knights and episodes of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Moonbase 3, Doctor Who (“Ghost Light”) and She-Wolf of London.

R&B singer Ruth Brown died of complications from a stroke and heart attack on November 17th, aged 78. Between 1949 and 1961 she had more than two dozen hits, including “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean”. Brown also appeared in such films as Under the Rainbow and Hairspray (1988).

80-year-old American character actor Jeremy Slate died of complications following oesophageal cancer surgery on November 19th. His many films include Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (uncre-dited), Born Losers, Hell’s Angels ’69 (he also wrote the original story), Hell’s Belles, the obscure Curse of the Moon Child, Wes Craven’s Stranger in Our House (aka Summer of Fear), The Dead Pit and The Lawnmower Man. He also appeared in episodes of TV’s Men Into Space, One Step Beyond, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bewitched, Tarzan, Ghost Story, Wonder Woman and Starman.

South African-born Vonne Shelley, who as a teenager appeared in a small number of films under the name “Yvonne Severn”, including Tower of London (1939), died on November 22nd, aged 79.

76-year-old French actor Philippe Noiret died on November 23rd after a long battle with cancer. The two-time Cesar Award-winner’s more than 125 film credits include The Night of the Generals, Hitchcock’s Topaz and the supernatural comedy Fantome avec chauffeur.

Veteran American jazz and big-band vocalist Anita O’Day (Anita Belle Colton) died of cardiac arrest the same day, aged 87. She recorded around thirty albums and wrote candidly of her battles with heroin addiction and alcoholism in her 1981 biography, Hard Times, Hard Times.

British actor Anthony Jackson, who played the ghostly Fred Mumford in the children’s TV series Rentaghost (1976–78), died on November 26th, aged 62. As a voice artist, he contributed to Labyrinth and Watership Down.

“Greetings, pop-pickers!” After being diagnosed with arthritis in 1991, Australian-born British disc jockey Alan “Fluff” [Leslie] Freeman MBE died on November 27th, aged 79. He was a pioneering presenter for BBC Radio since the early 1960s and, later, TV’s Top of the Pops. In 1965 he starred in the carnivorous vine episode of the anthology film Dr Terror’s House of Horrors and appeared as God in two episodes of TV’s The Young Ones (1984). “Not arf!”

French actress Claude Jade (Claude Marcelle Jorre) died of complications from eye cancer on December 1st, aged 58. A discovery of Francois Truffaut, who fell in love with her, she appeared in Hitchcock’s Topaz and such TV productions as A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1969), the mini-series Coffin Island and a 1990 episode of The Hitchhiker.

Actor and voice artist Sid Raymond (Raymond Silverstein) died of a stroke the same day, aged 97. Best remembered as the voice of such cartoon characters as Baby Huey and Katnip, he also appeared in Fright (aka Spell of the Hypnotist, 1957) and Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse.

84-year-old American supporting actor Adam Williams (Adam Berg) died of lymphoma on December 4th. His many credits include The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Space Children, and episodes of TV’s Science Fiction Theater, The Twilight Zone, Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

American stuntman turned actor Michael Gilden died on December 5th, aged 44. Best known for playing Finnegan and Liam on several episodes of TV’s Charmed, he also appeared in Star Wars IV: Return ofthejedi (as an Ewok), Freaked, Pulp Fiction, Snow White (2001) and Twice Upon Christmas.

Actor Russell Wade died on December 9th, aged 89. Best remembered for his roles in Val Lewton’s The Leopard Man, The Ghost Ship and The Body Snatcher, he also appeared in The Falcon in Danger and A Game of Death. He retired from the screen in the late 1940s for a career as a realtor.

American character actor Peter Boyle died of multiple myeloma and heart disease on December 12th, aged 71. A former member of the Christian Brothers religious order, he spent three years living in a monastery before he turned to acting. After working as a production manager on the offbeat science fiction comedy The Monitors (1968), Boyle’s acting credits include Young Frankenstein (as a singing and dancing Monster), Taxi Driver, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Outland, Solar Crisis, The Shadow (1994), The Santa Clause, A Deadly Vision, Species II, Doctor Dolittle (1998), The Adventures of Pluto Nash, The Santa Claus 2 (uncredited), Scooby-Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed and The Santa Claus 3: The Escape Claus. He also appeared in two episodes of TV’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and he won an Emmy Award for his guest-starring role in The X Files episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” (1995). John Lennon was the Best Man at Boyle’s wedding to Rolling Stone journalist Loraine Alterman.

Mike Evans, who played Lionel Jefferson in the American TV sitcoms All in the Family and The Jeffersons, died of throat cancer on December 14th, aged 57. He also appeared in the films Now You See Him Now You Don’t and The House on Skull Mountain.

Former model Kimberly [Ann] Ross, who starred in the 1989 horror film Pumpkinhead, died on December 19th, aged 47. She also appeared in The Last Starfighter.

Republic Pictures leading lady Lois Hall died of a heart attack on December 21st. The 80-year-old actress had earlier been taken ill on the set of David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button filming in New Orleans. Although best known for appearing in Westerns, her many other credits include playing a low budget female Tarzan in Daughter of the Jungle, the 1949 serial The Adventures of Sir Galahad (as the Lady of the Lake) and Kenneth Branagh’s Dead Again. On TV she appeared in episodes of Dick Tracy (1950), Fireside Theatre (“The Canterville Ghost”), Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miracles and Lost.

Peter G. Spelson, who produced, scripted and starred in the 1980 horror/SF film The Psychotronic Man, died the same day, aged 75.

“Hello, my darlings.” 81-year-old British TV and film comedian Charlie Drake (Charles Edward Springall) died in his sleep at a London nursing home on December 23rd following a long illness caused by two strokes in the late 1990s. In 1974 he starred in the Children’s Film Foundation movie Professor Popper’s Problem, in which he was shrunken down to miniature size. His novelty pop song “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back” stayed at the #1 slot for four weeks in the Australian music charts in December 1961.

“The Godfather of Soul”, influential American singer James Brown, died of pneumonia in Atlanta, Georgia, on Christmas Day, aged 73. Best known for such hits as “I Got You (I Feel Good)”, “It’s a Man’s World” and “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine)”, he appeared in Ski Party, The Phynx, The Tuxedo, The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. Brown’s funky music can also be heard on the soundtracks for The Fan, Android, Jacob’s Ladder, Hudson Hawk, Ghost in the Machine, Demon Knight, The Nutty Professor (1996), Pace/Off Kiss the Girls, Doctor Dolittle (1996), My Favorite Martian, Muppets from Space, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Osmosis Jones, Black Knight, Garfield, Blade Trinity and Disney’s Robots.

Tough guy character actor Frank Campanella died on December 30th, aged 87. One of his first roles was as Mook the Moon Man in an episode of TV’s Captain Video and His Video Rangers, and Campanula’s other credits include Seconds, Matt Helm (1975), High Anxiety, Heaven Can Wait (1978), Angel on My Shoulder (1980), Dick Tracy (1990) and episodes of TV’s Wild Wild West, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Salvage 1.

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American cinematographer Leonard J. South died of pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer’s disease on January 6th, aged 92. Best known for his nearly a dozen collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, including Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, The Birds and Family Plot, his other films include Hang ’em High, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Home for the Holidays, A Cold Night’s Death, Scream Pretty Peggy, Satan’s Triangle, The Ghosts of Buxley Hall and the TV series Rod Serling’s Night Gallery and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

74-year-old Academy Award-winning film editor Stu Linder died of a heart attack while on location on January 12th. His credits include Seconds, Catch-22, The Day of the Dolphin, Young Sherlock Holmes and Sphere.

British production designer Norris Spencer, a frequent collaborator with Ridley and Tony Scott, died of pneumonia the same day, aged 62. He worked on Britannia Hospital, Hannibal and National Treasure.

Oscar-winning German film producer Franz Seitz died after a long illness on January 19th, aged 84. In 1979 he directed a version of Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus.

Austrian-Hungarian-born film and TV director Otto Lang died of complications from heart disease on January 30th, aged 98. Arriving in America in the mid-1930s, he worked on such TV series as World of Giants (which he also produced), Men Into Space and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Polish-born film director, animator, sculptor and photographer Walerian Borowczyk died in Paris on February 3rd, aged 82. His 1974 film Immoral Tales featured Paloma Picasso as Countess Bathory bathing in the blood of virgins, The Beast (1975) was an erotic retelling of “Beauty and the Beast”, and Bloodlust (aka Dr Jekyll and His Women, 1979) marked the final screen appearance of actor Patrick Magee.

Writer, television director and drama professor Luther James died on February 5th, aged 76. He directed episodes of Bewitched and was a production executive on such CBS-TV shows as Mission Impossible, The Wild Wild West, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

British animator Eddie (Edric) Radage died in early February. His many credits include Animal Farm (1954), Yellow Submarine, Watership Down, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979), The Snowman and the 1967 TV series The Beatles.

Scriptwriter, producer and director Frank Q. Dobbs died of cancer on February 15th, aged 66. Although best-known for his many Western TV series, his credits also include Enter the Devil and the recent mini-series of King Solomon’s Mines, Mysterious Island and The Poseidon Adventure.

Australian-born film director Peter Sykes died on March 1st, aged around 66. In the early 1970s he brought some class to a flagging Hammer Films with Demons of the Mind and To the Devil a Daughter. His other credits include Venom (aka The Legend of Spider Forest), the Frankie Howerd comedy The House on Nightmare Park and several episodes of TV’s The Avengers and Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries.

Canadian-born director Lindsay Shonteff died in England on March 11th, aged 70. In the 1960s he filmed two low budget British horrors, Devil Doll and Curse ofSimba (aka Curse of the Voodoo). His other credits include Licensed to Kill (aka The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World), The Million Eyes of Sumuru, Night After Night After Night (as “Lewis J. Force”), No.l of the Secret Service and Licensed to Love and Kill.

Animation director Brad Case died on March 19th, aged 93. He began his career as an animator on Disney’s Bambi and also worked on Song of the South and Make Mine Music. In the 1960s he moved to television, where he directed episodes of The Dick Tracy Show, The Pink Panther and Friends and The Fantastic Four. His other credits include Frankenstein Jr and the Impossibles, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, Goober and the Ghost-Chasers, Shinbone Alley and Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island.

66-year-old Spanish film director and scriptwriter Eloy German de la Iglesia died on March 23rd, following an operation for renal cancer. His films include Fantasia . . . 3, Cannibal Man, Clockwork Terror and No One Heard the Scream.

Australian film producer Barbi Taylor died on March 24th, aged 59. Her credits in various production capacities include Patrick, Snapshot, Thirst, Road Games, Frog Dreaming and Jackie Chan’s First Strike.

Veteran Hollywood director Richard Fleischer died on March 25th, aged 89. The son of 1930s animator Max Fleischer, his numerous films include Disney’s classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Vikings, Fantastic Voyage, Doctor Dolittle (1967), The Boston Strangler, Blind Terror (aka See No Evil), 10 Rillington Place, Soylent Green, Amityville 3-D, Conan the Destroyer and Red Sonja.

Emmy Award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis died of brain cancer on March 27th, aged 77. Creator of the Gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71 and 1991), which initially ran for 1,225 episodes on ABC-TV, his movies and TV films include The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968), House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler, The Norliss Tapes, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973), Dracula (1973), The Turn of the Screw, Scream of the Wolf, Trilogy of Terror, Burnt Offerings, Curse of the Black Widow, Dead of Night (1977) and Intruders (1992). His wife Norma died of heart failure two weeks earlier.

Mechanical special effects technician Gerald Endler died the same day, aged 94. His many films include Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Silent Running, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Sleeper, The Towering Inferno, Apocalypse Now and episodes of TV’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel.

Gloria Monty, who executive produced ABC-TV’s daytime soap opera General Hospital for more than a decade, died of cancer on March 30th, aged 84. She took over the struggling show in 1978, introducing more fantasy-orientated plots to attract a new audience. More recently, Monty produced a number of TV movies based on books by Mary Higgins Clark, including Remember Me, While My Pretty One Sleeps and Let Me Call You Sweetheart.

American cinematographer Paul Hipp, who began his career working on such exploitation films as Sweet Trash and Trader Hornee, died on April 10th, aged 68. His other credits include Blood and Lace, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, Garden of the Dead, Grave of the Vampire, Psycho from Texas, Hanger 18, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980), Earthbound, The Boogens and The Fall of the House of Usher (1982).

Korean director Shin Sang-Ok died in Seoul on April 11th, aged 79. In the 1970s, both he and his actress wife were separately abducted and transported to North Korea, where they completed seven films before seeking asylum in the West in 1986. His 1985 socialist monster movie Pulgasari featured a metal-eating creature, while the horror film The Gardener (1998), directed under the name “Simon Sheen”, starred Malcolm McDowell, Angle Everhart and Olivia Hussey.

50-year-old TV producer and director Scott Brazil died of respiratory failure due to complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and lyme disease on April 17th. He directed episodes of TV’s Strange Luck, The Burning Zone and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and served as a producer on the series Space Rangers and the 1993 TV movie Lifepod.

British-born TV director Peter Ellis died in California on April 24th. He relocated to the US in the 1980s, where he directed episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Highlander, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Highlander: The Raven, Mortal Combat: Conquest, Sliders, Tarzan, Smallville and Supernatural.

Hollywood talent manager and publicist Jay Bernstein died of a stroke on April 30th, aged 69. His clients included Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Somers and Kristy McNichol. He produced the TV films The Wild Wild West Revisited and More Wild Wild West.

Austrian-born Alpine cameraman Herbert Raditschnig, who shot specialist scenes for the James Bond movies For Your Eyes Only and GoldenEye, died of a stroke on May 6th, aged 72. He was also the cinematographer on the 1987 horror film The Outing.

American special effects technician Philip Barberio died of multiple myeloma on May 8th, aged 60. He worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Return ofthejedi, Ghostbusters, The Blob (1988), The Abyss, Waxwork II: Lost in Time and such TV series as The Flash, Star Trek: Voyager and The Sentinel.

Veteran British film director, screenwriter and producer Val Guest (Valmond Guest) died of prostate cancer in Palm Springs on May 10th, aged 94. A former film journalist, he worked on a number of comedy scripts, including Alf’s Button Afloat, Ask a Policeman, The Ghost Train (1941) and Back Room Boy before becoming a director in the early 1940s. His numerous credits include Hammer’s The Quatermass Experiment (aka The Creeping Unknown), Quatermass 2 (aka Enemy from Space), The Abominable Snowman (aka The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas), Camp on Blood Island and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, along with Mr Drake’s Duck, Expresso Bongo (with Cliff Richard), The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Where the Spies Are, Casino Royale and the “lost” SF musical Toomorrow. He also directed episodes of the TV series Space: 1999 and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. Guest was married to actress Yolande Donlan.

Former actor turned BBC-TV producer Peter Bryant died on May 19th, aged 82. From 1967–69 he produced and/or story-edited Doctor Who starring Patrick Troughton, including such shows as “The Evil of the Daleks”, “The Tomb of the Cybermen”, “The Abominable Snowmen” and “The Web of Fear”.

Two-time Academy Award-winning production designer and art director [Lloyd] Henry Bumstead died of prostate cancer on May 24th, aged 91. He worked on more than 100 films in a career than spanned nearly seventy years, including Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo and Family Plot, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, The Brass Bottle, The War Lord, Slaughterhouse-Five (in which he also appeared), The Concorde – Airport ’79, The World According to Garp, Psycho III, Ghost Dad, Cape Fear (1991) and thirteen collaborations with Clint Eastwood.

British documentary film-maker Michael Croucher, who produced and directed the 1973 ghost story TV series Leap in the Dark, died on May 26th, aged 76.

American special effects pioneer Arthur Widmer, who created the Ulta Violet Travelling Matte (a forerunner of the bluescreen optical process), died on May 28th, aged 91.

Oscar-winning computer animation pioneer Bill Kovacs died of complications of a stroke and cerebral haemorrhage on May 30th, aged 56. Having helped develop animation software at Robert Abel and Associates in the 1970s, he used the technology on Disney’s 1982 film Tron.

Bernard Loomis, one of the first people to successfully market toys through the entertainment industry, died of heart disease on June 2nd, aged 82. From the late 1950s into the 1990s, while working for Mattel, Kenner Toys and other companies, he turned various franchises (including Star Wars, The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman) into greeting cards, TV movies and cartoon series. He famously rejected Close Encounters of the Third Kind for not being “toyetic” enough.

Pioneering scuba diver Dick Anderson, who served as diving equipment technician in Nassau for Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, died of Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) on June 3rd, aged 73. He was also the dive master on Jaws: The Revenge.

Veteran Hollywood director Vincent Sherman (Abram Orovitz) died on June 18th, one month short of his 100th birthday. A former stage and screen actor, he made his directorial debut in 1939 with The Return of Dr X starring Humphrey Bogart in his only horror film role. In the 1950s Sherman was “greylisted” by the House Un-American Activities Committee, while his 1996 autobiography Studio Affairs: My Life as a Film Director revealed that his lovers included Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Rita Hayworth.

British film producer, director and cinematographer Monty Berman (Nestor Montague “Monty” Berman), died on June 20th, aged 93. Born in London’s Whitechapel, he worked with Michael Powell and Carol Reed before teaming up with Robert S. Baker in the late 1940s to turn out a string of low budget “B” movies, including Blood of the Vampire, The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye), Jack the Ripper (1959), The Flesh and the Fiends (aka Mania), The Hellfire Club and What a Carve Up! (aka No Place Like Homicide). In the early 1960s, Baker and Berman moved into TV with such popular ITC series as The Saint (starring Roger Moore) and The Baron (with Steve Forrest), and Berman was paired with writer Dennis Spooner for such shows as The Champions, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Department S and Jason King.

Aaron Spelling, who began his career as a character actor in the 1950s and went on to become one of the most powerful and influential independent producers in television, died after suffering a stroke on June 23rd, aged 83. His long list of credits include Rod Serling’s short-lived series The New People, Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island, Kindred: The Embraced, Charmed and the TV movies How Awful About Allan, The House That Would Not Die, Cro-whaven Farm, Five Desperate Women, The Last Child, A Taste of Evil, Home for the Holidays, Satan’s School for Girls (1973 and 2000 versions), Death Cruise, Death at Love House, Cruise Into Terror, The Power Within, and Massarati and the Brain. Credited with almost 4,000 hours of television and estimated to be worth $300 million, he is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific producer of TV drama. His first wife was The Addams Family actress Carolyn Jones.

Kathy Wood, the widow of cult director Edward D. Wood, Jr (who died in 1978), died of cancer on June 26th, aged 84. She met and married the struggling film-maker in 1955, and worked closely with her husband as an editor and writer on a number of his projects (apparently coming up with the term “solarnite bomb” for Plan 9 from Outer Space). She was portrayed by Patricia Arquette in Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic Ed Wood.

Italian author and film-maker Stanis(lao) Nievo, credited as one of the creators of the “mondo” genre of outrageous film documentaries with Mondo Cane (1962), died on July 12th, aged 78.

Former vaudeville comedian and country music producer June Carr Ormond died in Nashville of complications from a stroke on July 14th, aged 94. With her husband Ron (who died in 1981), she produced a number of poverty-row Western serials starring Lash LaRue and Fuzzy St. John as well as the 1952 cult classic Mesa of Lost Women, Teenage Bride, White Lightnin’ Road and Girl from Tobacco Row. Following a plane crash in 1967, the couple turned to making religious exploitation movies, including The Monster and the Stripper, The Burning Hell and Grim Reaper (in which she played the witch, “Endor”).

Film producer, screenwriter and publicist Sam X. Abarbanel died on August 9th, aged 92. A former publicist for Republic Pictures, he wrote and produced the 1950 cult favourite Prehistoric Women and scripted the Spanish horror film Sound of Horror, featuring Ingrid Pitt and an invisible dinosaur.

Emmy Award-nominated TV documentary writer, producer and director Nicholas Webster died after a long illness on August 12th, aged 94. A bit player in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), he directed the feature films Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Mission Mars and the documentary Manbeast! Myth or Monster?, plus episodes of TV’s Get Smart, The New People, The Immortal and the Leonard Nimoy hosted In Search of . . . (including In Search of Bigfoot).

75-year-old British TV producer and director Kim Mills died after a long illness on August 28th. After working as an assistant director on such films as Behemoth the Sea Monster (aka The Giant Behemoth), he moved into television in 1960, working on such series as Plateau of Fear, City Beneath the Sea and Secret Beneath the Sea. Two years later he joined the drama team at ABC-TV, where he directed several episodes of The Avengers. His other credits include three episodes of Mystery and Imagination, Zodiac and The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.

Hollywood producer William M. Aldrich, the son of director Robert Aldrich, died of cancer on August 31st, aged 62. He began his career as an actor in his father’s films What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and he has associate producer credits on What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice and the 1991 TV version of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Belgian director Remy Belvaux died in northern France on September 4th, aged 38. He co-directed and acted in the 1992 cult film Man Bites Dog, about a camera crew making a documentary about a serial killer. In 1998 he threw a custard pie at Microsoft founder Bill Gates and was found guilty of “mild violence” and fined.

Italian production manager Armando Govoni died on September 17th, aged 79. After working in the wardrobe department for Mario Bava’s Giant of Marathon, he was the production assistant on the director’s Black Sunday (aka Revenge of the Vampire) and The Evil Eye.

83-year-old Swedish-born cinematographer Sven Nykvist died of complications from the rare brain disease primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease on September 20th. In a career in which he worked with such directors as Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bob Fosse and Andrei Tarkovsky, the two-time Oscar winner’s more than 120 film credits include Hour of the Wolf, The Magic Flute (1975), Black Moon, The Tenant, Dream Lover and Curtain Call.

American director, writer and producer Stanley Z. Cherry died of cancer on September 27th, aged 74. His various credits include The Addams Family, The Monkees and The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.

Italian director Renato Polselli (aka “Ralph Brown”) died on October 1st, aged 84. His many credits include The Vampire and the Ballerina (which was reportedly the first Italian horror film to show a profit), II Monstro dell’opera, La Verita secondo Satana, Delirium, The Reincarnation of Isabel and Mania.

Veteran film and TV producer Herbert B. [Breiter] Leonard died of cancer on October 14th, aged 84. He worked in various production capacities on numerous serials and low budget movies, including Batman and Robin, Atom Man vs. Superman, Mysterious Island (1951), The Magic Carpet, Captain Video, King of the Congo, Blackhawk and Adventures of Captain Africa, along with such “Jungle Jim” adventures as Mark of the Gorilla, Captive Girl, Jungle Jim in Pygmy Island, Fury of the Congo, Killer Ape and Jungle Man-Eaters. His TV credits include the series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Circus Boy and Route 66.

Indian entrepreneur Spoony Singh [Sundher], who founded the world-famous Hollywood Wax Museum in 1965, died of congestive heart failure on October 18th, aged 83.

64-year-old Emmy Award-winning cinematographer James M. Glennon died from a blood clot following surgery for prostate cancer on October 19th. As well as working as a camera operator on such films as Altered States and Star Wars Episode IV: Return ofthejedi, and contributing additional photography to Weird Science, he shot Jaws of Death, Flight of the Navigator, In the Deep Woods, the 1995 TV drama/documentary Edgar Allan Foe: Terror of the Soul, Invader, Carnivale and Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt.

Canadian film and TV director Daryl Duke died of pulmonary fribosis on October 21st, aged 77. His credits include The Return of Charlie Chan (aka Happiness is a Warm Clue) and episodes of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery and Ghost Story.

American set designer and art director Roy Barnes died of lung and bone cancer on October 29th, aged 70. His many credits include Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Red Dawn, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Deadly Friend, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Jurassic Park III, The Scorpion King, Hulk, Big Fish, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, War of the Worlds (2005) and Serenity.

Film producer and composer Edward L. Alperson, Jr died on Halloween, aged 81. He received an associate producer credit on the 1986 remake of his father’s classic Invaders from Mars.

Exploitation cinematographer, director, producer, film editor and actor Gary Graver died of cancer on November 16th, aged 68. He collaborated with Orson Welles on such unfinished projects as The Other Side of the Wind, The Dreamers, King Lear, The Magic Show and Moby Dick, plus the documentaries F for Fake, Filming Othello and It’s All True. However, among Graver’s more than 300 credits, he is better known for photographing such low-budget titles as The Mighty Gorga, Satan’s Sadists, Horror of the Blood Monsters (with John Carradine), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (with Lon Chaney, Jr), Invasion of the Bee Girls, The Clones, I Spit on Your Corpse!, Naughty Stewardesses, The Toolbox Murders, Doctor Dracula (again with Carradine), Deathsport, Death Dimension, The Glove, the US footage for Screamers, The Attic, Mortuary, The Phantom Empire, Ancient Evil, Deep Space, B.O.R.N., Alienator, Wizards of the Demon Sword, Bad Girls from Mars, Haunting Fear, Merlin (1992), Evil Toons, Witch Academy, Time Wars, Dinosaur Island, Possessed by the Night, Star Hunter, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds, Sorceress and Sorceress II The Temptress, Invisible Dad, Alien Escape, Femalien II, Timegate: Tales of the Saddle Tramps, Shandra: The Jungle Girl, Curtis Harrington’s Usher, 13 Erotic Ghosts, Leeches!, Haunting Desires, Tomb of the Werewolf (with Paul Naschy), Countess Dracula’s Orgy of Blood and The Mummy’s Kiss: 2nd Dynasty. He also shot (uncredited) the Edward D. Wood, Jr-scripted One Million AC/DC. As a director/cinematographer, Graver’s credits include Trick or Treats, Moon in Scorpio, Evil Spirits and Veronica 2030, while as “Robert McCallum” he directed numerous adult films to support his other projects.

Maverick American writer, producer and director Robert [Bernard] Altman died of cancer on November 20th, aged 81. After briefly trying acting (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), he turned to writing and directing. His credits include Countdown, Brewster McCloud, Images, The Long Goodbye, Quintet, the live-action Popeye, The Player, Gosford Park, A Prairie Home Companion and episodes of TV’s Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He received an honorary Oscar at the 2006 Academy Awards.

Japanese director Akio Jissoji died of stomach cancer on November 29th, aged 69. In the mid-1960s, while working for Tokyo Broadcasting System, he created the TV series Ultraman and Ultra Seven with special effects expert Eiji Tsuburaya. He later formed his own production company, and his films include Ultraman (1979), Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis, Silver Mask, A Watcher in the Attic, Murder on D Street and the omnibus Rampo Noir (the latter three titles based on stories by Edogawa Rampo).

Independent American writer, producer and director Don Dohler died of cancer on December 2nd, aged 60. Inspired by reading Famous Monsters of Filmland, he started making his own films at the age of twelve. His later credits include The Alien Factor, Fiend, Nightbeast, The Galaxy Invader, Blood Massacre and The Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage. Dohler also scripted and produced Harvesters, Stakes, Crawler and Vampire Sisters. He was the founding editor of Cinemagic magazine, which published eleven issues between 1972–79.

83-year-old record producer Ahmet Ertegun, founder of the Atlantic Records label, died on December 14th, after falling and injuring his head at a Rolling Stones concert at New York’s Beacon Theatre on October 29th. In 1947 he borrowed $10,000 to start Atlantic Records, whose artists included Dizzy Gillespie, The Drifters, Bill Haley and the Comets, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Buffalo Springfield and Bobby Darin (Ertegun produced his recording of “Mack the Knife”).

Joseph Barbera, who co-founded the animation studio Hanna-Barbera with William Hanna (who died in 2001), died on December 18th, aged 90. Joining forces at MGM in 1937, the team won seven Academy Awards for their work on Tom and Jerry cartoons before setting up their own production company in 1957 to cater for television. Starting with Ruff and Ready that same year, they churned out around 300 cartoon series, including The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, The Flintstones, Top Cat, The Jetsons, The Adventures ofjonny Quest, Abbott & Costello, Space Ghost, Frankenstein Jr and the Impossibles, Scooby-Doo Where Are You!, The Funky Phantom, Sealab 2020 and numerous others, eventually winning eight Emmy Awards. In recent years, many shows originally created by Hanna-Barbera have been turned into big-budget movies with varying success. Barbera’s autobiography, My Life in Toons, was published in 1994.

USEFUL ADDRESSES

THE FOLLOWING LISTING OF organisations, publications, dealers and individuals is designed to present readers and authors with further avenues to explore. Although I can personally recommend most of those listed on the following pages, neither the publisher nor myself can take any responsibility for the services they offer. Please also note that the information below is only a guide and is subject to change without notice.

—The Editor

ORGANISATIONS

The British Fantasy Society (www.britisbfantasysociety.org) was founded in 1971 and publishes the bi-monthly newsletter Prism and the magazine Dark Horizons, featuring articles, interviews and fiction, along with occasional special booklets. The BFS also enjoys a lively online community – there is an e-mail news-feed, a discussion board with numerous links, and a CyberStore selling various publications. FantasyCon is one of the UK’s friendliest conventions and there are social gatherings and meet-the-author events organised around Britain. For yearly membership details, e-mail: secretary@britishfantasysociety.org.uk. You can also join online through the Cyberstore.

The Friends of Arthur Machen (www.machensoc.demon.co.uk) is a group whose objectives include encouraging a wider recognition of Machen’s work and providing a focus for critical debate. Members get a hardbound journal, Faunus, twice a year, and also the informative newsletter Machenalia. For membership details, contact Jeremy Cantwell, FOAM Treasurer, Apt.5, 26 Hervey Road, Black-heath, London SE3 8BS, UK.

The Ghost Story Society (www.ash-tree.bc.ca/GSS.html) is organised by Barbara and Christopher Roden. They publish the superb All Hallows three times a year. For more information contact PO Box 1360, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada VOK 1A0. E-mail: nebuly@telus.net.

The Horror Writers Association (www.horror.org) is a worldwide organisation of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of writers of Horror and Dark Fantasy. It was formed in the early 1980s. Interested individuals may apply for Active, Affiliate or Associate membership. Active membership is limited to professional writers. HWA publishes a monthly Newsletter, and its annual Bram Stoker Awards ceremony is now held in conjunction with World Horror Convention. Apply online or write to HWA Membership, PO Box 50577, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA.

World Fantasy Convention (www.worldfantasy.org) is an annual convention held in a different (usually American) city each year, oriented particularly towards serious readers and genre professionals.

World Horror Convention (www.worldhorrorsociety.org) is a smaller, more relaxed, event. It is aimed specifically at horror fans and professionals, and held in a different city each year. The annual HWA Bram Stoker Awards ceremony is currently included as part of the events.

SELECTED SMALL PRESS PUBLISHERS

Bloody Books (www.beautiful-books.o.uk), 117 Sugden Road, London SW11 5ED, UK. E-mail: office@beautiful-books.co.uk

Cemetery Dance Publications (www.cemeterydance.com), 132-B Industry Lane, Unit 7, Forest Hill, MD 21050, USA.

Crowswing Books (www.crowswingbooks.co.uk), PO Box 301, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE33 OXW, UK.

Earthling Publications (www.earthlingpub.com), PO Box 413, Northborough, MA 01532, USA. E-mail: earthlingpub@yahoo.com

Fantagraphics Books (www.fantagraphics.com), 7563 Lake City Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115, USA.

Gauntlet Press (www.gauntletpress.com), 5307 Arroyo Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80922, USA. E-mail: info@gauntletpress.com

Gray Friar Press (www.grayfriarpress.com), 19 Ruffield Side, Delph Hill, Wyke, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. E-mail: g.fry@blueyonder.co.uk

Hadesgate Publications (www.hadesgate.co.uk), PO Box 167, Selby, Y08 4WP, UK. E-mail: hadesgate@hotmail.co.uk

Hill House, Publishers (www.hillhousepublishers.com), 491 Illing-ton Road, Ossining, NY 10562, USA. E-mail: peter.hillhouse@gmail.com

Kerlak Publishing (www.kerlak.com), 1779–1 Kirby Parkway, Suite 373, Memphis, TN 38138, USA.

Medusa Press (www.medusapress.com), PO Box 458, San Carlos, CA 94070, USA. E-mail: info@medusapress.com

MonkeyBrain Books (www.monkeybrainbooks.com), 11204 Crossland Drive, Austin, TX 78726, USA. E-mail: info@monkeybrainbooks.com.

Night Shade Books (www.nightshadebooks.com), 1423 33 rd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA. E-mail: night@.nightshadebooks.com

Nocturne Press (www.noctpress.com), PO Box 226, Pacific, Washington 98047–0226, USA.

Pendragon Press (www.pendragonpress.co.uk), PO Box 12, Maes-teg, Mid Glamorgan, South Wales CF34 0XG, UK.

PS Publishing (www.pspublishing.co.uk), Grosvenor House, 1 New Road, Hornsea, East Yorkshire HU18 1PG, UK. E-mail: editor@pspublishing.co.uk

Raw Dog Screaming Press (www.rawdogscreaming.com), 5103 72nd Place, Hyattsville, MD 20784, USA.

Sarob Press (www.home.freeuk.net/sarobpress), “Ty Newydd”, Four Roads, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire SA17 4SF, Wales, UK. E-mail: sarobpress@freeuk.com.

Savoy Books (www.savoy.abel.co.uk), 446 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3BW, UK. E-mail: office@savoy.abel.co.uk

Solitude Publications, 9356 Lamont, Livonia, MI 48150, USA. E-mail: jade0319@twmi.rr.com

Subterranean Press (www.subterraneanpress.com), PO Box 190106, Burton, MI 48519, USA. E-mail: subpress@earthlink.net

Tachyon Publications (www.tachyonpublications.com), 1459 18th Street #139, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. E-mail: jw@tachyonpublications.com

Telos Publishing Ltd (www.telos.co.uk), 61 Elgar Avenue, Tol-worth, Surrey KT5 9JP, UK. E-mail: feedback@telos.co.uk

Twilight Tales (www.TwilightTales.com), PO Box 817, Chicago, IL 60614, USA. E-mail: sales@twilighttales.com

Wormhole Books (www.wormholebooks.com), 413 High Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46808, USA. E-mail: info@wormholebooks.com

SELECTED MAGAZINES

Alan K’s Inhuman Magazine is an attractive digest fiction publication with an old-time pulp feel. For more information (no unsolicited manuscripts) e-mail: outreart@aol.com

Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest (www.apexdigest.com) is a quarterly digest magazine edited by Jason B. Sizemore. Subscriptions are available from: Apex Digest, PO Box 2223, Lexington, KY 40588–2223, USA. E-mail: jason@apexdigest.com

Cemetery Dance Magazine (www.cemeterydance.com) is edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish and includes fiction up to 5,000 words, interviews, articles and columns by many of the biggest names in horror. For subscription information contact: Cemetery Dance Publications, PO Box 623, Forest Hill, MD 21050, USA. E-mail: info@cemeterydance.com

Locus (www.locusmag.com) is the monthly newspaper of the SF/ fantasy/horror field. Contact: Locus Publications, PO Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661, USA. Subscription information with other rates and order forms are also available on the website. Sterling equivalent cheques can be sent to: Fantast (Medway) Ltd, PO Box 23, Upwell Wisbech, Cambs PE14 9BU, UK. E-mail: locus@locusmag.com

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (www.fsfmag.com) has been publishing some of the best imaginative fiction for more than fifty years. Edited by Gordon Van Gelder, single copies or an annual subscription (which includes the double October/November anniversary issue) are available by US cheques or credit card from: Fantasy & Science Fiction, PO Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA, or you can subscribe online.

New Genre (www.new-genre.com) is published annually in soft-cover book format by editors Adam Golaski (horror) and Jeff Paris (science fiction). Unsolicited submissions are welcomed up to 14,000 words. Unpublished works only, no electronic submissions. Enclose a SAE for reply. Back issues also available. New Genre, PO Box 270092, West Hartford, CT 06127, USA. E-mail: info@new-genre.com

PostScripts: The A to Z of Fantastic Fiction (www.pspublishing.co.uk) is an excellent hardcover magazine from PS Publishing. Each issue features approximately 60,000 words of fiction (SF, fantasy, horror and crime/suspense), plus a guest editorial, interviews and occasional non-fiction. Issues are also available as a signed, limited edition. For more information contact: PS Publishing Ltd., Grosve-nor House, 1 New Road, Hornsea, East Yorkshire HU18 1PG, UK. E-mail: editor@pspublishing.co

Rue Morgue (www.rue-morgue.com), is a glossy bi-monthly magazine edited by Jovanka Vuckovic and subtitled “Horror in Culture & Entertainment”. Packed with full colour features and reviews of new films, books, comics, music and game releases. Subscriptions are available from: Marrs Media Inc., 2926 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON M6P 1Y8, Canada, or by credit card on the web site. E-mail: info@rue-morgue.com. Rue Morgue also runs the Festival of Fear: Canadian National Horror Expo in Toronto. Every Friday you can log on to a new show at Rue Morgue Radio at www.icebergradio.com and your horror shopping online source, The Rue Morgue Marketplace, is at www.ruemorguemarketplace.com

SF Site (www.sfsite.com) has been posted twice each month since 1997. Presently, it publishes around thirty to fifty reviews of SF, fantasy and horror from mass-market publishers and some small press. They also maintain link pages for Author and Fan Tribute Sites and other facets including pages for Interviews, Fiction, Science Fact, Bookstores, Small Press, Publishers, E-zines and Magazines, Artists, Audio, Art Galleries, Newsgroups and Writers’ Resources. Periodically, they add features such as author and publisher reading lists.

Talebones (www.talebones.com) is an attractive digest magazine of science fiction and dark fantasy edited and published 2–3 times a year by Patrick and Honna Swenson. For one and two year subscriptions (US funds only or credit card) write to: 5203 Quincy Avenue S.E., Auburn, WA 98092, USA. E-mail: info@talebones.com

Video Watchdog (www.videowatchdog.com) is a full colour monthly review of horror, fantasy and cult cinema on tape and disc, published by Tim and Donna Lucas. Described as “The Perfectionist’s Guide to Fantastic Video”, an annual twelve-issue subscription is available in US funds only or VISA/MasterCard to: Video Watchdog, PO Box 5283, Cincinnati, OH 45205–0283, USA. E-mail: orders@videowatchdog.com

Weird Tales (www.weirdtalesmagazine.com) is the latest large-size incarnation of “The Unique Magazine”, recently revamped with a new logo. Published by Wildside Press LLC, in association with Terminus Publishing Co, Inc. Single copies or a six-issue subscription is available (in US funds only) from: Wildside Press, 9710 Traville Gateway Drive #234, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Submissions should be sent to weirdtales@gmail.com or sent to PO Box 38190, Tallahassee, FL 32315, USA. Writers’ guidelines are available from the website. For subscriptions in the UK contact: Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6JQ, UK (andy@coldtonnage.co.uk).

BOOK DEALERS

Bookfellows/Mystery and Imagination Books (www.mysteryandimagination.com) is owned and operated by Malcolm and Christine Bell, who have been selling fine and rare books since 1975. This clean and neatly organised store includes SF/fantasy/horror/mystery, along with all other areas of popular literature. Many editions are signed, and catalogues are issued regularly. Credit cards accepted. Open seven days a week at 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, California 91203, USA. Tel: (818) 545–0206. Fax: (818) 545–0094. E-mail: bookfellows@gowebway.com

Borderlands Books (www.borderlands-books.com) is a nicely designed store with friendly staff and an impressive stock of new and used books from both sides of the Atlantic. 866 Valencia Street (at 19th), San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Tel: (415) 824–8203 or (888) 893–4008 (toll free in the US). Credit cards accepted. Worldwide shipping. E-mail: office@borderlands-books.com

Cold Tonnage Books (www.coldtonnage.com) offers excellent mail order new and used SF/fantasy/horror, art, reference, limited editions etc. Write to: Andy & Angela Richards, Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel: +44 (0)1276–475388. E-mail: andy@coldtonnage.co.uk

Ken Cowley offers mostly used SF/fantasy/horror/crime/superna-tural, collectibles, pulps, videos etc. by mail order at very reasonable prices. Write to: Trinity Cottage, 153 Old Church Road, Clevedon, North Somerset, BS21 7TU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1275–872247. E-mail: kencowley@blueyonder.co.uk

Dark Delicacies (www.darkdel.com) is a friendly Burbank, California, store specialising in horror books, toys, vampire merchandise and signings. They also do mail order and run money-saving book club and membership discount deals. 4213 West Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505, USA. Tel: (818) 556–6660. Credit cards accepted. E-mail: darkdel@darkdel.com

DreamHaven Books & Comics (www.dreamhavenbooks.com) store and mail order offers new and used SF/fantasy/horror/art and illustrated etc. with regular catalogues (both print and e-mail). Write to: 912 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA. Credit cards accepted. Tel: (612) 823–6070. E-mail: dream@dream havenbooks.com

Fantastic Literature (www.fantasticliterature.com) mail order offers the UK’s biggest online out-of-print SF/fantasy/horror genre bookshop. Fanzines, pulps and vintage paperbacks as well. Write to: Simon and Laraine Gosden, Fantastic Literature, 35 The Ramparts, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8PY, UK. Credit cards and Pay Pal accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1268–747564. E-mail: sgosden@netcomuk.co.uk

Fantasy Centre (www.fantasycentre.biz) shop (open 10:00am-6:00pm, Monday to Saturday) and mail order has used SF/fan-tasy/horror, art, reference, pulps etc. at reasonable prices with regular bi-monthly catalogues. They also stock a wide range of new books from small, specialist publishers. Write to: 157 Holloway Road, London N7 8LX, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20–7607 9433. E-mail: books@fantasycentre.biz

Ferret Fantasy, 27 Beechcroft Road, Upper Tooting, London SW17 7BX. George Locke’s legendary mail-order business now shares retail premises at Greening Burland, 27 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ, UK (10:00am-6:00pmweedays;10:00am-5:00pm Sundays). Used SF/ fantasy/horror, antiquarian, modern first editions. Catalogues issued. Tel: +44 (0)20–8767–0029. E-mail: george_locke@hotmail.com

Ghost Stories run by Richard Dalby issues semi-regular mail order lists of used ghost and supernatural volumes at very reasonable prices. Write to: 4 Westbourne Park, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Y012 4AT, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1723 377049.

Kayo Books (www.kayobooks.com) is a bright, clean treasure-trove of used SF/fantasy/horror/mystery/pulps spread over two floors. Titles are stacked alphabetically by subject, and there are many bargains to be had. Credit cards accepted. Visit the store (Wednesday-Saturday, 11:00am to 6:00pm) at 814 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA or order off their website. Tel: (415) 749 0554. E-mail: kayo@kayobooks.com

Porcupine Books offers regular catalogues and extensive mail order lists of used fantasy/horror/SF titles via e-mail brian@porcupine.demon.co.uk or write to: 37 Coventry Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4QR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8554–3799.

Kirk Ruebotham (www.abebooks.com/home/kirk61/) is a mail-order only dealer, who sells out-of-print and used horror/SF/fantasy/ crime and related non-fiction at very good prices, with regular catalogues. Write to: 16 Beaconsfield Road, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4BX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1928–560540 (10:00am-8:00pm). E-mail: kirk.ruebotham@ntlworld.com

The Talking Dead is run by Bob and Julie Wardzinski and offers reasonably priced paperbacks, rare pulps and hardcovers, with catalogues issued regularly. They accept wants lists and are also the exclusive supplier of back issues of Interzone. Credit cards accepted. Contact them at: 12 Rosamund Avenue, Merley, Wim-borne, Dorset BH21 1TE, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1202–849212 (9:00am-9:00pm). E-mail: books@thetalkingdead.fsnet.co.uk

Ygor’s Books specialises in out-of-print science fiction, fantasy and horror titles, including British, signed, speciality press and limited editions. They also buy books, letters and original art in these fields. E-mail: ygorsbooks@earthlink.net

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Horror in 2006

Summer

Digging Deep

The Night Watch

The Luxury of Harm

Sentinels

The Saffron Gatherers

What Nature Abhors

The Last Reel

The American Dead

Between the Cold Moon and the Earth

Sob in the Silence

Continuity Error

Dr Prida’s Dream-Plagued Patient

The Ones We Leave Behind

Mine

Obsequy

Thrown

Houses Under the Sea

They

The Clockwork Horror

Making Cabinets

Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)

Devil’s Smile

The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train

Necrology: 2006

Useful Addresses