Last week, while buying some new trous, I stumbled upon the astonishing book Squirm by Richard Curtis in the 10p book basket. While even by itself this would usually have been the best moment of my day – Squirm is a true masterpiece of comic terror – this edition has been filled with copious notes by [...]
Avid Essex Terror reader Daniel Cairns, from Chepstow, Gwentshire, has recently written to us concerning this extraordinary find. “During a recent job interview I was briefly left unattended in the Chepstow Records Office Document Room. Unable to resist the charms of the filing cabinet marked “Forbidden” I opened it up and quickly flicked through the [...]
Another exclusive from Essex Terror!, this unnerving picture appears to depict some sort of ogre aboard BA Flight 588 outbound from Stansted airport. It was snapped by Derek Butane of Romford, who assures us of its authenticity. The creature reportedly devoured three special meal requests and also obstructed the air hostess’s trolley, forcing over sixty [...]
Essex Terror! is giving away a copy of cult classic, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, starring the ambi-talented Edward Furlong as a crow who comes back from the dead to take revenge on a pack of Satanists who murdered him and stole his eggs. To win a DVD copy of this great movie, simply take a [...]
We're delighted to report that despite only being on the web for a few months, letters recounting people's fond remembrences of Essex Terror have been trickling in. And inevitably, amidst genuine well-wishing from former subscribers, that grand bugbear of correspondence has finally chosen to rear its malformed forelimbs and twitch them at at us: The Chain Letter.
Even those of the most passing acquaintance with this publication probably know that to describe our history as ‘rocky’ is akin to saying the ailing Amy Winehouse is ‘at times, a little unprofessional’. The exact origins of the fanzine that was to become Essex Terror! are of course lost to us; having passed into legend in the [...]
1: Maldon Mer-Man In the spring of 1780, local eccentric and prestidigitator, Alan Mulvane, claimed to have caught a bizarre sea creature whilst out fishing on the Essex salt flats, ‘Thee lykes of wiche fulle horribele it wass and no mistayke’. It was immediately put on show in what was to become one of England’s most [...]
