The Dream Zone

The Dream Zone was an independent press magazine that ran from 1999 to 2002 and produced a total of thirteen issues. I was the editor of the The Dream Zone, it was a completely amateur publication, although printed sort of semi-professionally but to a decent standard. I got no pay and I did not pay the contributors apart from a free copy of the magazine. The response and the interest was tremendous, I made lots of friends during the three years that I was editor. The magazine contained short stories with a dark theme, some might refer to them as horror but that was not exactly correct. As The Dream Zone evolved the material took on a more bizarre nature, as there were dozens of alternative publications catering for the dark/horror fraternity and my aim was to then provide something slightly different. My decision was to accept stories that were twisted and strange as opposed to dark and terror-filled. Ultimately I was forced to fold the magazine in 2002 mainly owing to financial reasons. With the introduction of the internet and email submissions more and more foreign submissions were coming in and the postage to overseas crippled my finances. I did not make anything on the magazine anyway and in fact I used my own cash quite a lot. This weblog is my way of reminiscing, even though I no longer have some of the early information regarding The Dream Zone, in fact I only possess issues from #8 onwards!