~ 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.

TheZONE is a quirky, space-themed creative hub built around an ongoing e-zine called the Super Secret Zone, now on its fifth issue, featuring original comics, short fiction, art, and classified ads. Visitors can submit anonymous "super secrets" via a web form, which may be featured in future issues, giving the site a participatory and irreverent old-web personality.

Antiquated Future is a small press and zine shop based in Portland with an extensive links page connecting visitors to indie bookstores, record shops, zine distributors, and zine culture resources across the US. The links section serves as a curated directory of the underground publishing ecosystem, from Quimby's Books in Chicago to Stolen Sharpie Revolution and Broken Pencil zine archives.

Common Pest is a personal creative hub by a maker who goes by the same name, hosting self-produced zines, music logs, and various creative projects while learning HTML and CSS from scratch. The site features a charming bat-filled illustrated tree as its navigation, a blog, and a music section covering artists like Tears for Fears, the Deftones, and Twenty One Pilots.

Simmons University Library's research guide dedicated to finding, making, and teaching with zines, curated by the Simmons Library in Boston. It features directories of zine distributors, community organizations, and recommended books on zine culture, with a special focus on feminist, DIY, and POC-centered zine resources.

GEOZONe is an archive of radical geographic zines and print ephemera, collecting over 80 titles that explore themes like abolition, urban geography, climate politics, housing justice, and community mapping. The collection spans deeply political and experimental works, from strike zines to queer school charters to guides on gentrification, making it a remarkable repository for radical geography enthusiasts and activists.

The Book of Zines, edited by Chip Rowe, is a comprehensive directory covering every facet of zine culture including archives, libraries, distribution, legal issues, history, and interviews with zine editors. Running since 1996 and paired with a published book available on Kindle and other platforms, it serves as an essential reference hub for zine makers and enthusiasts alike.

Antiquated Future is an online shop and catalog specializing in zines, books, music, and paper goods from hundreds of independent creators and small publishers. With over 343 zine titles from artists like Aaron Cometbus, John Porcellino, and Alex Wrekk, it serves as a remarkable resource for the DIY publishing and zine community.

Via Galactica is Croatia's first science fiction, fantasy, and horror e-fanzine, online since 1997 and still publishing despite hosting troubles. The site features issue archives, SF news, convention coverage, links to Croatian SF writers, and commentary on genre topics like Lord of the Rings.

Mothership Zeta is a quarterly digital science fiction and fantasy magazine edited by Mur Lafferty, publishing original fiction, nonfiction, and reviews for $2.99 per issue. Part of the Escape Artists family of genre podcasts and publications, it features thoughtful speculative fiction spanning sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and the weird.