Wyndcliffe Watch

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Zine
Title: Wyndcliffe Watch
Publisher: Medallion Press and The Wyndcliffe Watch Society
Editor(s): May Sutherland
Type: newsletter
Date(s): 1988-1996
Frequency: triannual
Medium: print
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Language: English
External Links: http://zurc2.com/WWatch
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Wyndcliffe Watch is a gen newsletter. It had three issues a year. It went on a 2-year hiatus in the early 1990s.

a 1989 flyer

It began as the official publication of the Wyndcliffe Dark Shadows Society, based in Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A. It featured convention reports, essays, fiction, poetry, art work, comics, photographs, and letters. The editor was a big fan of Grayson Hall, and many issues of this fanzine had material focusing on her character, Dr. Julia Hoffman.

Issue 1

Wyndcliffe Watch 1 was published in October 1988.

Issue 2

Wyndcliffe Watch 2 was published December 1988.

cover of issue #2

Issue 3

Wyndcliffe Watch 3 was published June 1989.

Issue 4

Wyndcliffe Watch 4 was published in February 1989 and contains about 56 pages.

  • Contributors include: Guy Haines, Lisa Hennes, Jane Lach (front cover), Danny Oliverira, Lori Paige, Priscilla, ShadowGram, Sherlock, Anna Shock, May Sutherland, Janyth Thompson, and Sharon Wisdom.
  • contents include con reports, essays, poetry, photos
  • The Runaway (fiction by Jane Lach)
  • Coming Home (fiction by Anna Shock)
  • As It Was in the Beginning (poetry by May Sutherland)
  • The Naming (fiction by Sharon Wisdom)
  • GRAVITATE: Circundato Encircled (serial by Lori Paige)
  • Moods from Dark Shadows (photo gallery)
  • Trivia Contest, Letters, Classified

Issue 5

Wyndcliffe Watch 5 was published Summer 1990.

Issue 6

Wyndcliffe Watch 6 was published December 1990.

cover of issue #6

Issue 7

cover of issue #7

Wyndcliffe Watch 7 was published in June/July 1991 and contains 56 pages.

  • contains photos, stories, bloopers, trivia, cartoons, etc. This issue has stories by Lori Paige, Jane Lach, Donna Sprinkle and Connie Jonas, with cartoons and art by Sherlock, Kelthammer and several others.

Issue 8

Wyndcliffe Watch 8 was the Third Anniversary Issue. It was published in 1991.

Issue 9

Wyndcliffe Watch 9 was published Summer 1992.

Issue 10

Wyndcliffe Watch 10 was published in May 1993. There appear to be two issues, the regular one, and the supplement. On the front of the supplement: "freshly computer-typeset."

Issue 11

Wyndcliffe Watch 11 was the last issue. It was published in 1996.