Ye Bloodie News

Ye Bloodie News was a supplement which ran alongside Udolpho. It ran for 10 issues, from Spring 1996 to Summer1998.

With grateful thanks to Ian Morland for drawing up this table.

Magazine VolumeDatePage noAuthorArticle
     
24Spring 19961-2From The EditorThe future of the magazine and its finances, intention to publish longer more detailed articles and modern artwork, true life accounts of modern Gothic
  2Tanya LloydPeople and Places – The tower at Kings Newnham
  2-3David FarrantPeople and Places – Hergest Court
  3-4Review by Jan SimmonsThe Decadent Cookbook by Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray
  4Review by Fiona SimmonsCain – The Pit, Barbican Centre
  4Review by GreySnare Drums on Mars
     
25Summer 19961-2From The EditorA 19th century riddle, publications Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets and Roubiliac and the 18th Century Monument, response to the cover art for vol 24.
  2-3Birds, Beasts and MonstersThe Literary and the Real Vampire Bat, by Denis Moss
  3Bat Watch 
  3-4Reviews by David SeedScience Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia (ed. John Clute); Jane Webb Loudon, The Mummy! A Tale of the 22nd Century
     
26Autumn 19961-2From The EditorThe 19th century riddle solved, bats in Cheddar Gorge, the Pump Room in Bath, and a 26% price increase.
  2-3Letters 
  3Bill HoodReview – Shadows, a northern celebration of the unknown, by Steve Cliffe
  3-4Terry HaleReview – Master of Fallen Years, complete supernatural tales of Vincent O’Sullivan (ed JA Salmonson)
     
27Winter 19961-2From The EditorFlying and a recent flight to Gibraltar, International Gothic Association conference near Strawberry Hill, two notable publications Peregrine’s Rest (Jennifer Gostin) and High Life in Verdopolis by Charlotte Bronte.
  2LettersFrom Bryan Haworth, Denis Moss, Ingrid Hicks
  2-3James RattuePeople and Places – Luton Graveyard, Chatham
  3-4John PisaniPeople and Places – Them Dry Bones – Evora in Portugal
  4Emma HooperReview – The Edge, a small press magazine
     
28Spring 19971From The EditorPublication plans, incl using more photographs, Wellcome Institute exhibition Doctor Death, worthy publications Death in the Victorian Family and The Bloody Countess.
  2Letter from Tony Crisp…re Bryan Haworth on Wilkie Collins’  Jezebel’s Daughter.
  2-4ViewpointThree Singers of the Same Song, by Kevin Joyce
     
29Summer 19971From The EditorWartime treasure hunt, cemetery Open Days, Dracula books.
  2Therese TaylorNews on Bats
  2-3Nigel SucklingFrankenstein and Dracula
  3-4James RattueA Purpose for The Gothic
  4StraboFleet Rectory and Holbeach Vicarage
     
30Autumn 19971-2From The EditorAnonymous responses to Suspended in Dusk in vol 29 of Udolpho re Highgate Vampire, Sean Manchester
  2Patricia ThompsonPeople and Places – Southampton Old Cemetery
  2-3Helen KnibbPeople and Places – the Witchcraft Museum, Boscastle
  3-4Howard WatsonReview – Worms Feed on Hector, the Gothic Novels of Simon Raven.
     
31Winter 19971From The EditorResearch into father’s wartime plane crash, Sean Manchester’s publications, two new publications worthy of note (William Beckford, an English Fidalgo, and The Oblate of St Benedict).  Photo of the Kaiser.
  2-3Roy BarclayPeople and Places – Hillside House
  3-4Kevin CarlyonThe Lure of Doom at Beachy Head
     
32Spring 19981From The EditorFin-de-siecle musings, the Highgate Vampire Society, and the Kaiser in a hat.
  1-2Letter from Bernard O’Brien 
  2-4Jan BondesonBook on Freaks and Incredible People
  4Roy BarclayPeople and Places – The Red Barn Murder
     
33Summer 19981From The EditorThe Millennium and ending the Goth Soc, struggling literacy societies and the closure of the Vampyre Society.
  1Letter from Ian James Meads 
  1-2David FarrantPeople and Places – They Come by Night
  3Ian James MeadsThe Starry Messenger
  3-4Roy BarclayThe Great Devon Mystery