~ Early Web Links ~

The Horror Zine is an online literary magazine publishing horror fiction, poetry, and art from both established and emerging writers, including Bram Stoker Award-winning authors. Each issue features original short stories, dark poetry, visual art, and editorial advice for aspiring horror writers, making it a genuine hub for the horror writing community.

ZineLibraries.info is the home of the Zine Librarians Interest Group, a collective dedicated to sharing resources, expertise, and best practices for building and maintaining zine collections in libraries and archives worldwide. Founded in 2007, the site offers guides on cataloging, collection policy, shelving, workshops, and events like the Zine Librarians unConference and International Zine Library Day.

Leveretstar is a newly launched personal digital outpost with a space-themed aesthetic, built around a blog and a growing collection of personal pages. The site is still early in development, with a to-do list hinting at future sections covering interests, media, dreams, and ethics.

Nice Marmot is a thoughtful personal blog by a U.S. Navy veteran who weaves together firsthand military history, current events, and geopolitical commentary with a distinctly lived-in perspective. Posts draw on the author's own service experience, including time aboard USS Stephen W. Groves during the tanker war in the Persian Gulf, making for unusually grounded and personal writing.

Written by one of the original organizers of Brighton Zinefest, this detailed how-to guide covers the practical nuts and bolts of running a zine fair or fest, from table layouts to co-operative organizing principles. The broader blog, 'A Note On a Rainy Night,' spans art, books, crafts, music, and travel, but this popular post draws on three years of real event experience to offer advice rarely found in one place.

Consumer World is a long-running consumer advocacy hub curating breaking consumer news, shopping bargains, scam warnings, and price comparison tools all in one place. Founded in 1995, it covers everything from shrinkflation and fake product alerts to mortgage rates and prescription drug discounts, making it a go-to resource for savvy shoppers and consumer rights advocates.

Scrappy Capy Distro is an anarchist zine distribution site offering a curated collection of political zines covering topics like antifascism, mutual aid, feminism, and COVID safety. The collection spans everything from anti-capitalist theory to practical guides, with titles like 'Gossip as Direct Action' and 'Insurrectionary Mutual Aid' making it a rich resource for radical literature.

Circulation Zero is Ryan Richardson's passion project dedicated to digitizing and preserving rare early punk fanzines, including a complete run of the legendary Los Angeles punk magazine Slash, making them accessible to fans who could never track down original newsprint copies. The site operates on an honor system, asking visitors to donate to charities like Doctors Without Borders and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in exchange for browsing high-quality scans of these historically significant publications.

Blue Backspace is a small independent publication run by Jillian Caulfield and Quint Iverson, covering games, music, books, film, and television through personal essays and criticism. Hand-coded in HTML as an undergraduate thesis project, the site has a charming update log format and a growing archive of thoughtful long-form pieces.

The Sockdolager is an online speculative fiction zine publishing quarterly issues of short stories spanning science fiction, fantasy, and other genre modes. Each issue is curated around loose themes and features original tales of space empires, mythological encounters, zombie cover bands, and other imaginative fare.