Paranormal Magazine

Exploring the world of the unexplained

Jazz Publishing

Paranormal challenge

Friday, July 25th, 2008

The new style Paranormal magazine hit the shelves today and needless to say we’re all pretty chuffed with it.

It was quite a challenge. I met Jazz Magazines’ publisher David Gamble and MD Stuart Mears on May 21 - and on June 2, I was in the editor’s chair, with less than four weeks to create a new magazine from scratch. Of course, we have taken nothing from the previous incarnation of the magazine other than its title, so that meant finding a new stable of writers and commission them for articles in very short order.

David was tasked with creating the new magazine’s look and I’m sure you’ll agree he’s done a blinder. With limited resources at times in terms of the imagery I was able to offer him, David designed dramatic, eye-catching pages guaranteed to grab the attention. I can imagine hosts of unsuspecting shoppers drawn in, mesmorised, by that scary eye on the front cover.

For me it has been a particular pleasure to chat with writers whose work I have read and admired for years and years, including Janet Bord, Karl Shuker and Paul Devereux. Every writer I spoke to said ‘Yes’ and each turned in a fantastic feature - and all ahead of an already tight deadline, for which I feel much gratitude.

Thanks to these writers, Jazz Publishing’s first issue of Paranormal magazine - actually, issue 27 - presents a varied and fascinating mix of mystery, a satisfying smorgasbord of strangeness.

No all I have to do - is do it all again!

And for that I’ll need your help. I’m keen for Paranormal to provide a platform for readers’ own experiences. Perhaps you have heard footsteps in a room you knew to be empty. Maybe you have seen a ghost or a UFO, or glimpsed a strange creature out in the countryside near your home. An extraordinary coincidence may have occurred in your life or an incident you dreamed about one night took place some time in the future precisely as you had dreamt it.

You are warmly invited to email in your own stories: I’ll do my best to find space for them in the magazine.

It’s a weird world out there and we’re all part of it.

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