New Horror in Culture and Entertainment Magazine Red Scream is Announced.
Writers David R. Williams and Richard Moore have joined forces as co-publishers and co-editors of Red Scream Magazine. Red Screams Premiere Issue will be released in mid-April with short fiction by Tom Picirrilli, John Everson, Wrath James White and other top names in the horror field.
(PRWEB) February 18, 2005 -- Writers David R. Williams and Richard Moore have joined forces as co-publishers and co-editors of Red Scream Magazine. Red Screams Premiere Issue will be released in mid-April with short fiction by Tom Picirrilli, John Everson, Wrath James White and other top names in the horror field.
"The focus of Red Scream is horror in culture and entertainment," said Williams, author of the cult novels Killer Asylum and Twilight in the Spaces Between, "The magazine will feature horror fiction by the newest voices, in-depth film analysis more akin to Bright Lights or Sight and Sound that say, Fangoria, and will look into the darkest corners of the internet."
"Were not just interested in pushing the envelope," said Moore, "But in shredding it. Were not looking to be just another shrill for the mainstream horror media machine, but to champion the surreal and the experimental, the material other magazines wont dare touch for fear of offending their advertisers or right wing groups. We dont care if Wal Mart carries us. I doubt our audience shops there any way."
Red Scream will be published five times a year. Each issue is 64 pages, with a full color cover and black and white interior.
Williams said, "Some might wonder if now, with the horrors of the real world swirling around us, if there really is a need for something like Red Scream. But people need fictional horror to help them cope with real horror. Weve seen this time and time again. The horror movie boom of the 30s and 40s that came out of the first world war, the depression and the second world war. The sci-fi horror films of the 50s born of the atomic age. The proto-splatter films of the 60s and 70s that came out of the blood spectacle of the Viet Nam war. With terrorism and AIDs and rising unemployment and the Bush regime rattling its swords at every shadow that squeaks, Red Scream captures horror and holds it at a safe distance. You can always turn the page, or close the covers. Try doing that when a Muslim whose been kicked around by various superpowers for hundreds of years, is driving an airplane toward you."
"Horror is not kids stuff," said Moore. "Horror is serious business. And the genre itself is worthy of serious study. We are looking for articles that are of the same intellectual level and integrity as anything you might read in Sight and Sound or Bright Lights. Its not that were not interested in gore and scantily clad women (laughs) but thats just the frosting on the cake."
Still looking for a distributor, Red Scream Issue 0 will be sold primarily through the magazines website (www.redscream.com) and other online venues, as well as horror conventions such as Horrorfind in Baltimore and Torontos Festival of Fear.
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