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WARREN COMPANION on steroids! I liked this book so much, I decided to write this fellow responsible for the work. After exchanging a few notes back and forth, I can tell you Mr. Horne turned out to be quite the amiable and gracious person. I can also tell you he is also a true collector and Warren scholar. You’ll know full well what I’m talking about after you read the interview that follows. MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD: Why a work on Warren? What was the purpose of such a massive undertaking?


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from my own collection, I could see that there were errors here and there, and items missing and so on (Im a copyeditor, so I read everything with those eyes now, unfor- tunately.) It seemed especially unjust that a book called The Warren Companion had almost no information at all about Famous Monsters, which accounted for a sizable chunk of the companys output and its fan base. I dont blame Cooke and Roach, of coursethey had initially compiled thema- terial for this book for Cookes Comic Book Artist magazine, and they were much more interested in and knowledgeable about the comics side of Warren. But it seemed in- complete to me.


DAVID HORNE: Well, it was obsessive psy- chosis, of course! Actually, I had been a fan and collector of Warren publications since I was young. For most of my life, infor- mation about the company was relatively hard to come bythere were the magazines themselves, the hard-to-find Famous Mon- sters Chronicles, and a few articles or in- terviews about Warren here and there in things like the Comics Journal, and that was about it. Even in the early days of the Internet, there just wasnt much info to be had. So when The Warren Companion, by Jon B. Cooke and David Roach, came out in 2001, I was very happy to buy a copy and fi- nally be able to learn more about this com- pany that had meant so much to me over the years. And there was that great War- ren checklist in the back! Well, I love The Warren Companion to this dayits a great piece of workbut as I went through the checklist and compared it to what I knew


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Just for the heck of it, I started making a list of corrections and things I wanted to see in such a checklist (such as foreign publications). I initially intended it as a corrections list that I could send to them in case they were ever to do a second edition, but once I started, I couldnt stop, and it grew and mutated over time until . . . long story short, it turned into Frankensteins monster and ended up as Gathering Hor- ror!


MMW: How did you go about selecting the title, GATHERING HORROR? HORNE: Like anyone putting something like this together, I went through long lists of possible names before coming up with this one. I cant really remember any more how it first came to mind, but I liked the way that it could be read to mean different


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