The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine information
The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine
Issue 5/6 cover
Editors
Barry M. Radburn, Stephen Studach
Frequency
irregular, 6 issues 1984-87
Publisher
Dark Press
Founded
1984
Final issue
1986
Company
Dark Press
Country
Australia
Based in
Penrith, NSW
Language
English
ISSN
0813-2518
OCLC
220287511
The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine (1984–86) was edited by (Michael) Barry Radburn and Stephen Studach. The first Australian semi-professional publication devoted to the weird and the macabre, it was published by Radburn's imprint Dark Press. It ran six issues; Issues 1, 2 and 3 all appeared in 1984, issue 4 in 1985 and the last, issue being a double issue (5/6) which was co-edited by Carol Dobson and Nerida Radburn, 1986.
"Australia has never produced a straight fantasy magazine, though in 1970 Sword and Sorcery, a putative companion to Ronald E Graham's Vision of Tomorrow, reached dummy stage before a poor financial deal killed it. Void (5 issues 1975-1977), an sf magazine, published occasional fantasy. Not until The Australian Horror & Fantasy Magazine (5 issues Summer 1984-Fall 1985) did a specialist publication emerge in the small-press field, though it concentrated mostly on horror, in imitation of WT [i.e. Weird Tales]. The same applied to Terror Australis (3 issues Fall 1988-Summer 1992), which emphasized graphic visceral horror."[1]
Though it did not pay authors, AH&FM was Australia's first specialist semi-professional magazine in the genre, publishing many local writers such as Rick Kennett and Leigh Blackmore who would go on to achieve lasting reputations, as well stories by American writers. Others, such as Paul Collins and Kurt von Trojan, have been prominent in Australian science fiction.
In total the magazine published 31 original stories and 20 original poems, of which about half were contributed by Australian authors. From 1987, the magazine was continued under the editorship of Leigh Blackmore as Terror Australis magazine.[2] [1]
^Clute, John and John Grant. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy UK: Orbit, 1997, p. 615.
^Paul Collins (ed). The MUP Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy. Melbourne, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1998, p. 146.
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