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RAMSEY CAMPBELL’s latest novel GHOSTS KNOW is forthcoming this October in hardcover or Kindle eBook from TOR Books.


JOHN CHARLES is now a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada.


JOHN-PAUL CHECKETT is a psychologist in clinical practice. He is one of the more prominent commentators in Daniel Grifith’s documentary THE FLESH AND THE FURY, included on Synapse Films’ TWINS OF EVIL Blu-ray release.


BILL COOKE is a film critic and teacher, corpo- rate media scriptwriter, video producer and the co-director of the 1994 horror film FREAKSHOW.


SHANE M. DALLMANN can be heard on “The Shagbag Show” (with hosts Dave Marzetti and Sam Salerno) the last Saturday of any given month at 9AM Pacific on KION 1460AM: the show is accessible on-line at shagbagshow.com.


LLOYD HAYNES is a writer about film located in Staffordshire, UK.


CHRIS HERZOG is a writer and researcher based in Evansville, Indiana. He participated in our DARK


SHADOWS round table discussion in VW 169 but this issue marks his debut as a critic.


TIM LUCAS recorded an audio commentary for Mario Bava’s 5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON (Redemption) and wrote a chapter about Italian Gothic for the book GOTHIC: THE DARK HEART OF FILM (BFI). His new column “Tales from the Attic” appears in the newly rebooted GOREZONE magazine.


KIM NEWMAN’s books JAGO and DRACULA CHA-CHA-CHA were recently reissued by Titan Books. Keep up with his flurry of activities at johnnyalucard.com.


RICHARD HARLAND SMITH adds a new essay each Friday to his blog at TCM’s Movie Morlocks.


DOUGLAS WINTER recently presented the Life- time Achievement Award to Clive Barker at the World Horror Convention. He still owns his origi- nal Mini-Moog, ARP Odyssey, and Elka String Machine.


BRET WOOD is an Atlanta-based filmmaker and producer whose provocative works include PSYCHO- PATHIA SEXUALIS (2006), THE LITTLE DEATH (2012) and the forthcoming THE UNWANTED.


VW THANKS & PHOTO CREDITS


Anchor Bay (4, 52, 53), Anolis (14-27), Anthem Press (74), Arc Entertainment (45), Ballyhoo Motion Pictures (43), Breaking Glass (6), Criterion (48), Dynamite Entertainment (76), Koch Media (10), MPI/IFC Midnight (47), New Line (7), Olive Films (5), Oscilloscope Laboratories (13), Chris Poggiali, Redemption (9, 65-71, 78), Scorpion Entertainment (58), Scream Factory (8,50), Severin (57), Shout! Factory (54, 55), TCM (28-30), Twisted Twins Productions (front, 34-38), VCI (11, 44, 59-64), Warner Bros. (40), Warner Archive (31), Samuel Z. Archive (15), and we also thank our contributors, subscribers, distributors, supporters and everyone who clamors for their favorite book shops to carry us! They’ll go out of business if they don’t!


In fond memory of Michael Ansara, Cosmo Allegretti, Karen Black, George Duke, Haji, Bernadette Lafont, Michel Lemoine, Andrew J. Offutt, and Amy Wallace.


EDITOR: Tim Lucas ASSOCIATE EDITOR: John Charles


ART DIRECTOR: Donna Lucas ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Linda Wylie (513-898-9523) ARTWORK: Stephen R. Bissette (4), Liz Bradford (79), Pete Fitzgerald (12), Charlie Largent (front, 28, 72)


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