Compiled from contributions from attendees of the first two EnVision workshops in July 2003 and July 2004. Most of the fiction consists of excerpts from novels in progress

Semi-professional magazine.

Fanzine that published early work by many of the top British SF authors of the 1980s such as Ian Watson, Colin Greenland, Robert Holdstock, Dave Langford & Mike Scott Rohan.

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The magazine published contemporary poetry and stories, as well as essays discussing the direction of Modernism in art and music.

A rebinding of unsold issues of New Worlds and Science Fantasy.

The Shadow Magazine was the first, and arguably the best, of the "character hero" pulp magazines. Launched in 1931 it soon established a monthly schedule and then, in 1932, doubled that to a twice-monthly schedule, which it maintained for over 10 years, before dropping back to a monthly schedule in 1943. This marked the beginning of the end with the schedule dropping to bimonthly in 1947 and then to quarterly in 1948, before the magazine finally expired in Summer 1949.

In all, 325 issues appeared, each containing a lead novel featuring Lamont Cranston, "The Shadow", as well as a small number of short stories and other features. Most of the novels were written by Walter B. Gibson (under the byline Maxwell Grant) although a small number were written by Lester Dent, Bruce Elliott and Theodore Tinsley (all under the Grant byline).

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Canadian reprint edition of The Shadow. From May-1932 to Apr-1936 it seems to have reprinted the US issues from 5-6 months previously, and then, for a few months at least, reprinted the US issues of the same date.

Following the War Exchange Conservation Act of 1940 which banned the direct import of US pulps, a new series started with (very poorly) (re)drawn cover art. This ran on a monthly basis from the middle of 1941 to early 1945 (at least) reprinting consecutive US issues starting from early 1941 (and thus continually falling further behind as the US magazine was publishing twice monthly during this period).

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Subtitled "Fantasy Literature Review", Shadow featured in depth articles on all aspects of horror and fantasy fiction, author profiles, book reviews, fiction and artwork.

Blake's 7 fanzine.

Part of a series of large-size, "bedsheet" format, magazines, issued by Street & Smith in the early 1940's, reprinting stories from The Shadow. Because of World War II paper shortages the third issue was delayed until 1947 and no further issues appeared.

Fanzine.

"A pulp-comic-radio journal dedicated to The Shadow".

Absorbed by Classic, later known as Classic Pictorial of Screen and Stage.

Subtitled "The Eerie Fanzine", Shadowland was a Fantasy Amateur Press Association publication, but also available to non-members. It was a hectographed zine of around 52 pages.

Shadowland is a well-produced fanzine with the usual mix of fiction, articles and poetry.

Fanzine.