Fangoria (magazine)
Fangoria, Issue 7
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| Editor | None (as of February 2017) |
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| Categories | Horror (beginning with Issue 7), originally Fantasy |
| Frequency | Bi-Monthly (6 issues annually) |
| Year founded | 1979 |
| Company | The Brooklyn Company, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www.fangoria.com |
| ISSN | 0164-2111 |
| OCLC number | 4618144 |
Fangoria is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early '90s it was the most prominent horror publication in the world.
The magazine was released in an age when horror fandom was still a burgeoning subculture; in the late 1970s most horror publications were concerned with classic cinema, while those that focused on contemporary horror were largely fanzines. Fangoria rose to prominence by running exclusive interviews with horror filmmakers and offering behind-the-scenes photos and stories that were otherwise unavailable to fans in the era before the internet. The magazine would eventually rise to become a force itself in the horror world, hosting its own awards show, sponsoring and hosting numerous horror conventions, producing films, and printing its own line of comics.
The magazine began struggling in the 2010s due to a variety of factors, including difficulty in generating enough ad revenue to cover the cost of printing. Publication became sporadic beginning in the fall of 2015, and the magazine ran through a succession of editors in the years 2015-2016, culminating with the February 2017 announcement of Ken Hanley's December 2016 departure. Since Hanley's departure, the magazine has not named an official editor, no new issues have been published, and varying sources offer conflicting opinions as to the publication's future.
Fangoria was first planned in 1978 under the name Fantastica as a companion to the science fiction media magazine Starlog; just as Starlog covered science fiction films for a primarily teenaged audience, Fantastica was intended to cover fantasy films for a similar audience. The publishers were anticipating a groundswell of interest in fantasy owing to the plans at that time for bringing Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian to the screen, plans first announced in 1978. The Conan film did not arrive until four years later and, when it did, no major groundswell in the demand for fantasy films occurred. But before the magazine was even launched, other factors intervened to change the magazine's focus and direction.
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