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JAMESBJOHNSON
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In recent days I notice that several horror mags are dead, and a few arent accepting new submissions for all of 2009.
Weird Harold
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Probably too much competition from News media.
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There's plenty of horror on the news, thats fer sure.
There's plenty of horror on the news, thats fer sure.
manyeyedhydra
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Turbulent times are usually pretty good to the horror genre. People like a nice safe escape valve for their fears.
I think it's probably more indicative of a general downward trend in print magazines. A niche product is going to struggle to compete with the internet. I was surprised they were still going at all to be honest.
I think it's probably more indicative of a general downward trend in print magazines. A niche product is going to struggle to compete with the internet. I was surprised they were still going at all to be honest.
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I'm clueless of what the problem is, but I notice several are gone and some of the big ones are not accepting new submissions.
I'm clueless of what the problem is, but I notice several are gone and some of the big ones are not accepting new submissions.
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I suspect MAD may be self inflicting its own demise. Their guidelines make it clear they dont want submissions like MAD was famous for in the 60s.
I suspect MAD may be self inflicting its own demise. Their guidelines make it clear they dont want submissions like MAD was famous for in the 60s.
dr_mabeuse
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What kind of horror mags? Hard-copy? I didn't even know there still were any.
When I was a kid, there were still some pulps left, and of course there were comics. This was before the comics code, and we could get original "Vault of Horror" and "Tales from the Crypt" and stuff like that, the good stuff, the stuff we had to read with flashlights under our covers so our moms wouldn't catch us with them.
It seems like just about all hard-copy media are folding: newspapers, magazines. Only books are still around. They'll never replace books, even with the new Kindle reading devices. Books are just too perfect.
When I was a kid, there were still some pulps left, and of course there were comics. This was before the comics code, and we could get original "Vault of Horror" and "Tales from the Crypt" and stuff like that, the good stuff, the stuff we had to read with flashlights under our covers so our moms wouldn't catch us with them.
It seems like just about all hard-copy media are folding: newspapers, magazines. Only books are still around. They'll never replace books, even with the new Kindle reading devices. Books are just too perfect.
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WEIRD TALES has been around since the 20s and is owned by a book publisher. Its the oldest. There are many others that serve segments of the horror market. And plenty mags come and go. Plus the e-zines.
Payment ranges from free postings on the e-zines, free copies of the mag, flat-rate paymates for stories $6-$25 per story, and 1 cent to 5 cent per word payment.
And all of them differ as to what they want.
I prefer WEIRD TALES because it has a friendly-supportive attitude about horror writers and encourages submissions. They even serialize novellas..others wont touch novellas.
I got an email from Chris Capone, grandson of Al. He read something I wrote and liked it.
WEIRD TALES has been around since the 20s and is owned by a book publisher. Its the oldest. There are many others that serve segments of the horror market. And plenty mags come and go. Plus the e-zines.
Payment ranges from free postings on the e-zines, free copies of the mag, flat-rate paymates for stories $6-$25 per story, and 1 cent to 5 cent per word payment.
And all of them differ as to what they want.
I prefer WEIRD TALES because it has a friendly-supportive attitude about horror writers and encourages submissions. They even serialize novellas..others wont touch novellas.
I got an email from Chris Capone, grandson of Al. He read something I wrote and liked it.
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oggbashan
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The problem with specialist magazines, and with local newspapers, is the sudden reduction in advertising spend.
It wasn't the price the reader paid that kept the magazine alive, but the amount of paid-for advertising guaranteed every issue, that paid the bills for the magazine's production.
In the UK I have noticed that the number and size of advertisements in computer magazines has dropped to a third of what they were this time last year. Publishers can't continue if that revenue loss is maintained.
My daughter has been made redundant from a local newspaper along with many others in the same newspaper group. The titles have lost advertising from Estate Agents (Realtors) that brought in thousands of pounds every weekly issue. Local newspapers across the UK are reducing their size, reducing their local content, amalagmating titles or just closing down. Once they have gone a significant part of the glue holding our communities together will have gone too...
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It wasn't the price the reader paid that kept the magazine alive, but the amount of paid-for advertising guaranteed every issue, that paid the bills for the magazine's production.
In the UK I have noticed that the number and size of advertisements in computer magazines has dropped to a third of what they were this time last year. Publishers can't continue if that revenue loss is maintained.
My daughter has been made redundant from a local newspaper along with many others in the same newspaper group. The titles have lost advertising from Estate Agents (Realtors) that brought in thousands of pounds every weekly issue. Local newspapers across the UK are reducing their size, reducing their local content, amalagmating titles or just closing down. Once they have gone a significant part of the glue holding our communities together will have gone too...
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I cant name one magazine that closed during the Great Depression. Something is very different about the present scanario.
What I suspect is happening is the continuing influence of empty suits in decision making positions. That is, in prosperous times readers continue subscriptions because they can afford to, and occasionally something good gets printed. But periodicals havent been printing good material for a long while, and the editors are clueless about whats good and whats not.
Things will turn around when the empty suits are gone.
I cant name one magazine that closed during the Great Depression. Something is very different about the present scanario.
What I suspect is happening is the continuing influence of empty suits in decision making positions. That is, in prosperous times readers continue subscriptions because they can afford to, and occasionally something good gets printed. But periodicals havent been printing good material for a long while, and the editors are clueless about whats good and whats not.
Things will turn around when the empty suits are gone.
