Owner Brimstone Press Editor Shane Jiraiya Cummings | Created by Shane Jiraiya Cummings Launched August 2005 (2005-08) | |
Type of site Dark fiction news and reviews Website ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com | ||
HorrorScope: The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log is a news and review webzine dedicated to horror literature and movies. The zine was created by Australian independent publisher Brimstone Press in August 2005. HorrorScope and its editors have won two Ditmar Awards (Australian Science Fiction Achievement Awards) and attracted several award nominations.
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Publication history
The zine is edited by a group of reviewers led by founder and managing editor Shane Jiraiya Cummings. Aside from Cummings, the foundation HorrorScope staff writers were Stephanie Gunn, A D John, Andrew J McKiernan, Miranda Siemienowicz, Mark Smith-Briggs, and Matthew Tait. Heather Gammage joined the staff in December 2006.
The Australian Horror Writers Association's news service was amalgamated with HorrorScope in March 2007. With AHWA news editor Talie Helene joining the HorrorScope editorial team, the combined serviced provided a single, streamlined source for Australian horror publishing news. Award-winning horror writer and critic Robert Hood joined the HorrorScope team in August 2007.
Aside from regular news items and reviews of books, magazines, and movies, HorrorScope has published interviews with notable Australian and international horror and speculative fiction authors such as RL Stine, Will Elliott, Stephen Dedman, Martin Livings, Brett McBean, Rocky Wood, Queenie Chan, Jason Nahrung, and David Conyers.