horrorzine

horrorzine

English

Etymology

Blend of horror +‎ magazine.

Noun

horrorzine (plural horrorzines)

1. A magazine that publishes horror stories.
   • 1975, Angela Carter, ‘The Art of Horrorzines’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 551:

     The woman's angle in the horrorzines seems influenced by the women's movement in rather a complex way.

   • 2001, Orson Scott Card, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, p. 108:

     Fanzines get almost no attention in the sf field (with the exception of horrorzines, and that's only because Karl Edward Wagner reads them all and selects stories from them for his annual anthology of the year's best horror).