ISSUE #10 IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!
After a delay that at times seemed like it would never end, Issue #10 of Journal of the Dark is finally ready and available for immediate shipment.
Features include an interview with Elaine Bergstrom, author of Mina, and the Austra family series; the origins of Lilith, a feature on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Liriel McMahon's report on the vampires she discovered in Morocco. Plus three original short stories, Vampire News, book and movie reviews, and much much more.
The other big news is that Issue #10 will be our last. After ten issues, three and a half years, and two long-distance moves, we're going to stop publishing. Why? The quick answer is that the Journal loses too much money, and it's become too time-consuming. For a more detailed explanation of this decision, see the Dusk column from Issue #10.
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Contact Info: The Journal web page and e-mail address will be open indefinitely, so I expect you'll be able to find me here for years to come. And I'll keep the post office box open for as long as I'm still getting mail - probably at least until mid-1999. One warning - the forwarding order from the PO box in Indiana will expire August 1998. If you haven't already updated your address files with our new address, please do so (PO Box 870056, Stone Mountain, GA 30087).
Refunds: If you're subscribed past Issue #10, you'll receive an account statement with the issue. You have the choice of spending your credit on back issues, JOTD T-shirts, or requesting a refund. With the Journal significantly in the red, I'm hoping I won't have to issue too many refunds, but if you want your money back for unpublished issues, you'll get it.
Miss an issue? Check out our back issues. Reprints of Issue #1 are almost gone, and we're getting low on Issue #3 and #7. There will be no more reprints when these are gone.
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Icons of the Vampire
This is a colletion of symbols of vampirism from the ancient to the modern. Beginning in the upper left-hand corner, and moving clockwise, we have fangs, a coffin, the medallion worn by Bela Lugosi in Dracula, the full moon (a symbol of the night; and when injured, moonlight restored Varney the Vampyre to life), a howling wolf ("children of the night...what music they make!"), a spider in its web ("the spider spinning his web for the unwary fly...the blood is the life, Mr. Renfield"), a medallion worn by Vlad the Impaler, and a bat. In the center, we have the ankh, an Egyptian symbol of eternal life which was forever connected to vampires in the movie The Hunger.
Icons of the Vampire was created by John Beckett, Angelique Cobb, and Tim Johnson. It was drawn by Tim Johnson.