Phantom Magazine

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Title: Phantom Magazine
Publisher: Dusk to Dawn Press (perhaps also "Masque & Rose Production"?) out of Michigan City, Indiana
Editor(s): Juliana Blewett
Date(s): April 1990-?
Series?:
Medium: print
Genre: het
Fandom: Phantom of the Opera
Language: English
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Phantom Magazine is a Phantom of the Opera fiction 33-page anthology. It is labeled v.1 n.1, but in fact may be the only issue published.

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It was typed on a Commodore 128 IBM PC 30/286. The art is by Juliana Blewett.

Contents

  • Me, poem by Michael Patrick Alexander (3)
  • Here I Have a Note (this was meant to be a future letter of comment section) (4)
  • Meg Giry was here!, cartoon (5)
  • Ask Erik, humorous advice column (6)
  • Poet's Corner (Christine, The Tutor, A Mask, A Rose -- four poems, one by A.V. Steele, others uncredited) (7)
  • For the Record, short LP reviews (9)
  • The Kiss, short fiction, uncredited (9)
  • A Face in the Mirror, fiction by J. Blewett (10)
  • Shattered Dreams, poem by Michael Patrick Alexander (13)
  • Bittersweet Memories, three poems by J. Blewett (Gargoyle, The Rose, The Longing) (14)
  • Reflections on New Year's Eve Masquerade Ball, The Paris Opera Populaire - December 31, 1882, fiction by Philia Atlantis (15)
  • The Night Heart, fiction by Kathleen Faust (18)
  • Classified Ads (books, Phantom merch, addresses for penfriends, announcement for a writing contest about the "best Phantom" ) (29)
  • La Galerie du Fantome, photocopied photos of the editor and other fans (30)
  • Masquerade! (31)
  • Erik's Place, cartoons (32)

Inside Sample

Reactions and Reviews

This is a cute compilation, but not a very stirring one. Some of the stories are interesting, but the work is dominated by just a handful of authors and a handful of ideas. (For example, a focus in the fiction on Meg Giry, and MG and Erik, runs throughout Phantom Magazine.) The artwork, almost all done by the same artist, moves between good, amusing, and inappropriately cartoonish.[1]

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