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The inspiration for Nightside / Gathering Darkness has passed on. Charles L. Grant
1942-2006
The year was 1989, and for Gathering Darkness (called The Nightside in its earlier incarnation)
was how it was done. By hand, with a copier and side staples. There were no computers used
then, at least none that were affordable to the general public.
There was a time, not so long ago, when small press (a.k.a. underground) publications were
made by hand. Cut and paste and copy machines were the tools of the trade. Typing was done
with a heavy metal typewriter .. paper stolen from employers. And logos were drawn by
hand, and copied over and over, until they had to be touched up with fine point markers. Copies
of magazines were printed with the use of a copier and a long night of single corner-stapling or
triple stapling followed. A few of the luckier ones sent their magz out to people who would
saddle-staple the magz together.
After my introduction to the Small Press (a.k.a. Underground) I took a close look at the format
that everyone was using, and was unmoved by most of the fiction I was reading. The majority of
the fiction was gore and sex just for the sake of it. No substance, no storyline, nothing
interesting. Previously I had published a collection of my own poetry and fiction (long out of
print) called “Vision and Dreams: and other Nightmaresâ€. with the use of an old Royal typewriter,
that I dug out of a dumpster, and a copy machine. I knew that I could create my own magazine
using the same process. Then Nightside (later to become Gathering Darkness) was born.
Authors and poets currently featured
at GDarkness.com:
Sarah Abraham, Robert Adamovich, Robert
Baker, Thomas W. Behnke, Donna Taylor Burgess, Chimera, Lewis & Korn,
Michael Christian, Matt Cole, Corrine DeWinter, Lorin Emery, Jack Fisher,
Chad Fleagle, Darren Franz, Greg F. Gifune, Pamela Graves, Amy Grech, John
Grey, Michael Hansen, Robert Henry, Chris Hivner, Donald W. Hornbostel,
Harrison Howe, Geoff Jackson, Susi James, Melinda Justice, D.F. Lewis,
Richard Logsdon, Charles Lucien, Carol MacAllister, Barbara Malenky, Jeff
Martin, Mathias Mason, Ripley McCain, Joseph W. Miles, Rick Mischke, Marguerite
Mullaney, Michael Pendragon, Celeste Plowden, Mark Allan Reynolds, William
P. Robertson, Steven L. Shrewsbury, Jeffrey A. Stadt, Wade Tarzia, Derek
W. Wass, Richard Weaver, Gary West, Terry M. West, Patrick Allan Westfall,
Neal Williams and Sidney Williams. Coming Soon...Authors and poets from
the back issues of GD.
Artists and Illustrators currently
featured at Gdarkness.com:
Thomas M. Arensberg, Robert S. Beal, Noel
Bebee, Bob Crouch, Eric Douthitt, David Fode, Christopher Friend, GAK,
Basil Gogos, Jonas Höglund, Susi James, Jeffrey Jones, Jason
Just, Steven King, Allen Koszowski, Regina Kulick, Russell Morgan, Georgi
Ostashov, Billy Tackett, Hugh Vogt, Christopher Volker and Kenneth Waters.
Coming Soon...Artists and Illustrators from the back issues of GD.
to be continued........
