I founded House of Moonlight one Saturday morning in May 1981. At least that�s how I remember it. (To begin with, House of Moonlight was called House of Moonlight Press, but the �Press� has long since vanished along the way.)
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I named House of Moonlight after a novella by the American writer August Derleth (1909-71).
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Previously, I�d started out in science fiction fanzine publishing, with two issues of The Usual, co-edited and published with fellow High Wycombe fan Chris Lewis. This was in the prehistoric days when small-press publishing often meant cutting stencils on a manual typewriter, and then getting someone with a duplicator to do the hard work.
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In March 1981 I�d published the first (and only, as it turned out) issue of Not To Be Named, a magazine of fiction, non-fiction, and verse, mainly in the field of supernatural horror. I now regard this as a sort of House of Moonlight publication before that set-up really existed....
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On that Saturday morning in May I decided that I would start to publish poetry. Beginning with a small collection of my own work, as I had it easily to hand, House of Moonlight started its life. And now twenty years have passed....
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Noted horror artist Dave Carson produced the logo (the one on the Home Page). Then I looked for other work to publish.
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Two English poets immediately came to mind -- John Francis Haines and Steve Sneyd. I have always considered them to be among the best poets writing in the science fiction / horror / just offbeat field. Thus I am still proud to have been able to publish John�s
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