Horror fiction magazine
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A horror fiction magazine is a magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 that publishes primarily horror fiction
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 with the main purpose of scaring or frightening the reader. Horror magazines can be in print, on the internet, or both.

Defunct magazines

  • The Arkham Collector
    The Arkham Collector
    The Arkham Collector was an American fantasy, horror fiction and poetry magazine first published in Summer 1967. The magazine, edited by August Derleth, was the second of two magazines published by Arkham House...

  • The Arkham Sampler
    The Arkham Sampler
    The Arkham Sampler was an American fantasy and horror fiction magazine first published in Winter 1948. The magazine, edited by August Derleth, was the first of two magazines published by Arkham House. The cover design was prepared by Ronald Clyne and was printed in alternating colors for the eight...

  • The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine
    The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine
    The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine was edited by Barry Radburn and Stephen Studach. It was published by Radburn's imprint Dark Press...

  • Castle of Frankenstein
    Castle of Frankenstein
    Castle of Frankenstein was an American horror, science fiction and fantasy film magazine, distributed by Kable News and published in New Jersey from 1962 to 1975 by Calvin Thomas Beck's Gothic Castle Publishing Company. The first three issues were edited by Larry Ivie and Ken Beale. From 1963 and...

  • Dark Fluidity
  • Deathrealm
    Deathrealm
    Deathrealm was a small-press magazine of horror fiction that ran from 1987 through 1997, edited by Stephen Mark Rainey. In its ten-year history, Deathrealm featured hundreds of stories by writers ranging from talented first-timers to the best-known professionals in the horror field...

  • Der Orchideengarten
    Der Orchideengarten
    Der Orchideengarten was a Munich, German magazine that appeared for 51 issues from January, 1919 until November, 1921. Founded four years before the American magazine Weird Tales was launched in March 1923, it is hailed as the first fantasy magazine...

    1919-1921 Germany
  • Horror Stories
    Horror Stories (magazine)
    Horror Stories was an American pulp magazine that published tales of the supernatural, horror, and macabre. The first issue was published in January 1935, three years after the weird menace genre had begun with Dime Mystery Magazine. Horror Stories was a sister magazine to Terror Tales, whose first...

  • Night Cry
  • Terror Australis
    Terror Australis
    Terror Australis: the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine was Australia's first mass market horror magazine. It succeeded the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine edited by Barry Radburn and Stephen Studach and was the first magazine of its kind in Australia to pay authors...

  • Terror Tales
    Terror Tales
    Terror Tales was a long-running American pulp magazine of the horror comics and weird menace genres. It was originally published by Popular Publications. The first issue was published in September 1934...

  • The Third Alternative
    The Third Alternative
    Black Static, formerly The 3rd Alternative, is an award-winning British horror magazine edited by Andy Cox. The magazine has won the British Fantasy Award for "Best Magazine" while individual stories have won other awards...

  • Twilight Zone literature
    Twilight Zone literature
    Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt The Twilight Zone television series.-Novels:...

  • Whispers
    Whispers (Magazine/Anthologies)
    Whispers was probably the most widely respected and one of the most ambitious of the new horror and fantasy fiction magazines of the 1970s. It became at least as visible and nearly as influential as a series of mostly original anthologies in the 1980s....


Extant magazines

  • Macabre Cadaver
    Macabre Cadaver
    Macabre Cadaver Magazine was an American online horror, fantasy and science fiction magazine which receives a number of visitors. Macabre Cadaver publishes short fiction, poetry, and non-fiction articles. Macabre Cadaver Magazine is produced by Stark Raven Press and is available as an online...

  • Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
    Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
    Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine or ASIM is a fantasy and science fiction magazine and webzine published out of Glenn Innes, New South Wales, Australia. The publishers of ASIM describe it as "Australia's Pulpiest SF Magazine". The magazine is currently edited by Robbie Matthews and is...

  • Apex Digest
    Apex Digest
    Apex Magazine, also previously known as Apex Digest, is an American horror and science fiction magazine which began publishing in 2005 out of Lexington, Kentucky. In 2008, Apex Digest ceased printing the American digest size print version and opted to move the magazine online. This free webzine,...

  • Bards and Sages Quarterly
    Bards and Sages Quarterly
    Bards and Sages Quarterly is a fantasy, horror, and science fiction literary magazine published by Bards and Sages, and edited by Julie Ann Dawson. Its first issue was released in January 2009. Quarterly issues have been released since, with the latest in January 2011. Bards and Sages Quarterly is...

  • Black Static
  • Cemetery Dance
  • Chizine webzine
  • Clarkesworld Magazine
    Clarkesworld Magazine
    Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...

    webzine
  • Dark Moon Digest
    Dark Moon Digest
    Dark Moon Digest is a horror fiction magazine that is published quarterly. It is a publication of Dark Moon Books, an imprint of Stony Meadow Publishing.- Overview :Dark Moon Digest has been welcomed as a new outlet for authors of horror fiction...

  • Fantázia
    Fantázia
    Fantázia was a Slovak science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine. It was first published in July 1997. The magazine was started in Šaľa, Slovakia by Ivan Aľakša, who served as its editor until 2006, when he withdrew to concentrate on publishing duties and was replaced by Juraj Malíček.Fantázia...

  • GUD Magazine
    GUD Magazine
    Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine is an award-winning American literary magazine, the first publication from Greatest Uncommon Denominator Publishing, founded in Laconia, New Hampshire in July 2006....

    2006-present print/pdf
  • Horror Bound Online Magazine
  • The Horror Zine
    The Horror Zine
    The Horror Zine is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in July 2009. The magazine was set up in Sacramento by Jeani Rector, an novelist and short-story writer with a taste for the macabre. She has been the editor for the magazine's entire run, and is assisted by...

  • H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
    H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
    H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror was a quarterly horror magazine edited by Marvin Kaye and published by Wildside Press. HPL's was originally announced as a quarterly, but has always appeared on an irregular basis....

  • Ideomancer
    Ideomancer
    Ideomancer is a Canadian online speculative fiction magazine whose contents include science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, horror, flash fiction and speculative poetry, along with reviews and interviews. The first issue debuted in 1999, and in 2002 the magazine was "rebooted" with new numbering...

  • Abyss & Apex
  • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
    The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
    The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...

  • Midnight Street
    Midnight street
    Midnight Street is a British horror fiction magazine published by Trevor Denyer. It is a resurrection of a previous publication titled Roadworks, published under the current title since 2004.-See also:* Science fiction magazine...

  • Not one of us
    Not one of us (magazine)
    Not One Of Us is a small press horror and science fiction magazine published in Massachusetts, USA, four times a year. The first issue appeared in October 1986. The theme is "people or things out of place in their surroundings": outsiders, social misfits, aliens in the science-fictional...

  • Paradox Magazine
  • Shadowed Realms
    Shadowed Realms
    Shadowed Realms was a dark flash fiction online magazine produced by Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press and edited by Angela Challis. A number of stories published in Shadowed Realms have won, or been nominated for, several speculative fiction awards. -Publication history:The first...

  • Shock Totem Magazine
  • Shroud: The Journal of Dark Fiction and Art
  • Something Wicked
    Something Wicked (Magazine)
    Something Wicked was a quarterly horror, science fiction, and fantasy print magazine published in South Africa by InklessMedia Publishing. Their first issue was published in the Spring of 2006. In July, 2011, it switched to a monthly on-line format....

  • Subterranean Magazine webzine
  • Sybil's Garage
    Sybil's Garage
    Sybil's Garage is a speculative fiction, poetry, and art journal, published by Senses Five Press. Issues one through six were released as a small press magazine, or zine. Issue seven was released in trade paperback format. The publication combines artwork with fiction and poetry for a unique...

  • Weird Tales
    Weird Tales
    Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

  • Three-lobed Burning Eye
    Three-lobed Burning eye (magazine)
    Three-lobed Burning Eye is an online magazine of speculative fiction edited by Andrew S. Fuller. First published in 1999, it features stories from the genres of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction, as well as magical realism or slipstream. All issues are collected in an annual print anthology...

    , 1999–present online/antho
  • Twisted Tongue magazine

Horror comic magazines

  • Creepy (Warren Publications)
  • Eerie (Warren Publications)
  • Vampirella (Warren Publications)
  • Nightmare (Skywald Publishing)
  • Psycho (Skywald Publishing)
  • Scream (Skywald Publishing)
  • Weird (Myron Fass/Eerie Publications)

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