Holiday Shrieks

Zine
Title:	Holiday Shrieks
Publisher:	Whatever You Do, Don't Press
Editor(s):
Date(s):	September 1993
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Professionals
Language:	English
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Holiday Shrieks is 124-page slash holidayfic Professionals anthology.

The art is by Karen Eaton (front cover), H. Ann Walton and Corinna Hansen.

Disclaimer

Holiday Shrieks! is a non-profit publication of WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T PRESS! and does not intend to infringe upon the rights of the BBC, Brian Clemens, London Weekend Television, Charles Dickens, and whoever holds the copyrights to Are You Being Served? and Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased. Rights to each contribution revert back to the writer or artist thereof upon publication. All contributions accepted are in trade for one free copy of the zine or a pro-rated discount. And if you’ve read all this and are still awake, you wouldn't happen to have any Shadow Chasers zines I could borrow to read, would you? I'll give discounts on zines to anyone who speaks up.

Series

It is part of a series of themed zines:

• The Hols of CI5 - holiday focus (1991)
• Brit Shriek! - supernatural focus (1992)
• Holiday Shrieks - holidays and supernatural focus (1993)

It appears the editor wanted to perhaps do a second issue of Brit Shriek! and The Hols of CI5 but didn't have enough submissions and instead diverted them to this zine. From the editorial of "Holiday Shrieks":

Welcome to the first and last editon [sic] of Holiday Shrieks! This zine represents the combining of submissions of two zines, Brit Shriek! and The Hols of CI5, neither of which would have been big enough to publish on its own. So I'll let you decide which story was meant for which zine. Any further Pros submissions I get will go into my remaining Pros zine, Chalk and Cheese (which is planning issue 13, due out at the end of this year, but is still open for submissions).

[...]

...thanks to all the contributors who put up with my constantly changing mind, being told I was putting out both zines separately, combined, as a flip-zine and not at all. You guys all deserve medals!

Contents

• The Holiday by Mirenna (slash) (1)
• Marley by Jane Mailander (gen) ("Marley" by Jane Mailander is a sequel to her "Wave Goodbye Already!" in Brit Shriek and has, in turn, the sequel "See Me, Hear Me, Feel Me" in Leather and Blue Jeans #2.) (5)
• Bodie's Book of Words to Live By by Khrystyna (slash) (19)
• Each and Every Day of the Year by Vonne Shepard (slash) (20)
• Motheaten by Dr Seuss (gen) (21)
• Surprise Serving by Sue Wells (gen) ("Author's note: Are You Being Served? is an old (1972-83) English sitcom that's currently on some PBS stations. Captain Peacock and Mr. Goldberg were omitted from the story because I didn’t have enough dialogue and action for everyone. The flying brassiere scene was, er, lifted from the aired episode, "Sweet Smell of Success." I needed something to lay the foundations of the staffs terrorist suspicions -no more bra jokes, cross my heart. I like Mr. Lucas much better than Mr. Spooner, his later replacement, which is one reason the story is set in January, 1979. Originally, I wanted Bodie's pressie to be that oatmeal jacket that Doyle looks so good in, but it was from too late in the time periods of both shows. So I hauled out Professional Insight and found a suitable replacement. -- The charcoal jacket is from the retirement party scene in Servant of Two Masters." -- Thank you, Sara Slinn, et al., for an indispensable reference guide. Lastly, thanks to Mysti for including this story in Holiday Shrieks! by letting me call Doyle’s birthday a holiday. If it's not. it should be.") (Are You Being Served) (23)
• Dances with Wolves by Jane Mailander (slash) (reprinted in B and D's Excellent Adventures) (31)
• Happy Birthday, Mr. Murphy by H. Ann Walton (slash) ("Author's note: A big thank you to Donal Hinely who allowed me to use his copyrighted songs, HOLD ME and ROAD TO MARABEE.") (35)
• Shagged Out by Michelle Christian (slash) (47)
• Celebration by Alexfandra (slash) (51)
• cartoon by Karen Eaton (56)
• Scrambled Eggs by Terence (slash) (#11 in the Building to Last Universe) (57
• Bodie's Book of Words to Live By by Khrystyna (68)
• Bats in the Belfrey by Gena Fisher (slash) (69)
• Namecalling by Caroline Quinn (gen) (Prequel to "It's a Grand Old Name" in Brit Shriek!.) (79)
• cartoon by Karen Eaton (88)
• The Spell, poem by Lily Fulford (89)
• The Spell, song by Lily Fulford (93)
• Slip in Time by Lily (gen) (94)
• Weekend at Murphy's by Gena Fisher (slash) (a sequel to this story is "Trouble With Murphy" and is in Mates #3) (116)

Sample Interior

• 

  not credited

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  H. Ann Walton, Murphy sings one of many songs by Donal Hinely

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  Karen Eaton

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  Karen Eaton

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  Corinna Hansen

Reactions and Reviews

Just finished reading Holiday Shrieks! Hmm... Some very interesting stuff therein. Let's see — my favorite stuff's "Literally Speaking" and the cartoons by Karen Eaton (I absolutely adore that woman's art!).

"Scrambled Eggs" was my favorite story; I'd love to read the rest of the stuff in this universe. Might you know where I can find it? (editor interjects - You can find all the stories in the Building to Last Universe right here in the pages of Chalk and Cheese.)

Close seconds were "Marley" and "Slip in Time." "Marley" was especially clever — I'd like to see more about this.

I'd also like to see continuations of the stories "Surprise Serving" (let's go back to Grace Bros, and buy Doyle those trousers...) and "Namecalling" (Murph, a leprechaun! What an odd, odd concept. I shall refrain from making any comments about 'Lucky Charms'...) ...

I do applaud the frequent use of Murphy in the stories; I stand firmly on Ann Walton's side when it comes to Murph — let's see lots and lots of him!

It took my feeble little mind a few minutes to realize why there were all these weird, monster/horror-oriented stories in the zine (Shrieks, you nit - understand?). I just don't know what frequency my brain operates on, honestly...

One last comment on a story: I would've gotten upset and decried the piece "Weekend at Murphy's" for being horribly unrealistic, but I was giggling too much. Okay, I give in — let's see Part Two... (No, actually, there's one more comment, but it's directed to Ann Walton — okay, Ann, come clean, what else did Cowley give Murph for his birthday?)