Meanings
nounhorrorzine (plural horrorzines)
plural horrorzines
- A magazine that publishes horror stories.
The woman's angle in the horrorzines seems influenced by the women's movement in rather a complex way.
1975, Angela Carter, “The Art of Horrorzines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 5511 more example
Fanzines get almost no attention in the sf field (with the exception of horrorzines, and that's only because Karl Edward Wagner reads them all and selects stories from them for his annual anthology of the year's best horror).
2001, Orson Scott Card, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, page 108
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