THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

The Infinity team bring you news on your favourite TV shows and movie franchises, including a heads-up on some great new genre books and tributes to a musical Pacemaker from Merseyside!

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GIANT MONSTERS AND JENNY AGUTTER!

One of my favourite publisher pals is a certain Eric McNaughton, a dapper fellow who channels Fred Astaire in his attire and singing talents if maybe not quite so much on the dance floor. Like Clark Kent he has a dual identity. Before the pandemic hit, Eric was a tour guide by day and publisher by night, though he didn’t take off his glasses to distinguish between those roles. Since the pandemic Eric has been confined to, no, not a phone box, but his luxury apartment near Brighton’s seafront where he has been devoting himself to building his publishing empire.

His main magazine title is We Belong Dead, described as “the fanzine of the classic age of horror!” Yes, it’s a competitor to our companion mag The Dark Side, but a very friendly one and in happier days designer Kev and I meet up with Eric and other British ‘Gentlemen of Horror’ for a regular booze up at The Jugged Hare in Victoria followed by a healthy plate of Gandhi’s Revenge with plenty of poppadoms at a local curry house. What’s great about Eric’s publications is that he gives talented fans the chance to express themselves in print alongside professional genre writers. In this respect he’s following in the footsteps of another Brighton-based publishing tycoon, Dez Skinn, the man who brought us Starburst and House of Hammer, and indeed gave me, your esteemed Ed, my first break as a writer when he published my article on collecting 8mm horror films in the latter title back at the tail end of the 1970s. Dez and Eric meet up on a regular basis and I hope to be joining them once this lockdown ends!