Magazines
Beginning in 1981 and with T. E. D. Klein as editor, The Twilight Zone Magazine featured horror fiction and to some extent other forms of fantasy and some borderline science fiction. From March 1986 until its last issue of June 1989 the editor was Tappan King, who also edited its "twisted sister" publication, Night Cry. The TZ Magazine reviewed and previewed new movies while publishing articles about the original and revival Twilight Zone television series, among other cultural oddities. It was the most reliable market for much of the best short horror in that period and appealed to audiences for the likes of Fangoria and Starlog as well as for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Whispers. Like Omni Magazine, which it also somewhat resembled, it was published by a company better-known for "skin" magazines, Gallery's Montcalm Publishing. The all-fiction digest-sized companion, Night Cry, makes a cameo in The Simpsons 300th episode, "Barting Over". On occasion, the magazine and digest reprinted often-anthologized short stories, introducing a new generation of horror aficionados to classic short stories by veteran writers such as "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson, and The Bookshop by Nelson Bond.
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