Upon the recent failure of my computer I hurried to the computer shop on Maldon High Street, hoping there to purchase a working machine. Unfortunately all items were priced beyond the meagre earnings my work as a cask roller provides, and I left disappointed. Stopping only to wipe the tears from the corners of my [...]
Once again a majestic find has been found – Essex Terror issue #8 has resurfaced, like a kraken’s corpse wept out by the sea. The full and frankly appalling contents of this edition can be seen below.
This article, one of the earliest to be published on this website, is reprinted here because for some reason it has been lost and possibly consumed deep within this labyrinthine tomb. All that remains of the original run of Essex Terror magazine is a black and white photocopy of Issue 12 (the final issue), and [...]
Essex Terror Issue Four was a departure from the standard issues, containing no news, reviews, interviews or even horror, instead just consisting of a short story by an unattributed author. This edition was so unpopular with readers it is alleged that less than 2 copies were ever actually sold, making this perhaps the rarest of [...]
Essex Terror reader David Guy (no relation) sent us this dishevelled page recently, along with the following unpunctuated tale explaining how he came upon it. “me and my brother were just driving to southend so my brother could pick up a bed that he bought from ebay and we had just got to the darkest [...]
Another issue of the original Essex Terror has surfaced, this time in amongst the scattered debris and scum-covered magazines in the brambles along the abandoned old railway line somewhere between Maldon and Purleigh. Perhaps coincidentally, this is one of the most haunted places in Essex. Dog-walker and magazine-finder Terrance Scurf explains what happened: “I was [...]
In another stunning historical find, original Essex Terror issue 6 has been found, rotting away in the loft of a recently deceased but unidentified man. In the corpse’s withered claws there was a note reading “DO NOT OPEN THE MAGAZINE”, but no-one could be sure what it was referring to. Possibly it meant the Radio [...]
In the early 1990s there was an ill-fated attempt to adapt and localise Essex Terror for the American market. Alleged to have run for over 200 twice-weekly editions, neither me nor the original Essex Terror editor, David N. Guy (no relation) , had ever seen a single copy of this, despite being willing to pay [...]
The now defunct Amiga Computing magazine seems a strange patron for Essex Terror, and yet here we have a coverdisk, circa 1992, containing the whole of Issue 12. Possibly Guy was flirting with the idea of moving to digital format (STAMpede magazine also attempted this with about as much success) before his disappearance. Thanks very [...]
Exclusive! Five original Essex Terror issue covers have been found! Many thanks to Martha Bunes for sending these in to us. Martha writes, Dear Essex Terror!, My grandson recently found these in our loft in our house in Halstead and was able to computerise them for me. I am sorry about the poor quality, but [...]
