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Gatehouse Gazette SEP ‘09 Gatehouse Gazette ISSUE 8 SEP ‘09 FORBIDDEN TALES OF FERVOR AND FRIGHT ISSUE 8 Gatehouse Gazette SEP ‘09 CONTENTS Columns Articles Reviews A STEAMPUNK HALLOWEEN MASTER OF THE GENRE IN DEATH THE NEW SOVIET MONSTER The Steampunk Wardrobe .………… 3 H.P. Lovecraft ….………………….…..… 7 You Are Empty ..……………..……...… 11 POISONOUS!! DELIRIOUS STUFF DEMONS IN 1930S JAPAN The Liquor Cabinet …….…...……… 24 Absinthe and steampunk …….…… 10 Devil Summoner 2 ………..…….….… 17 METAL CASTING FOR EVERYONE NEON-NOIR Series Tutorial ………………………….….…… 20 Nightside series .……………….….… 19 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT Hammer Horrors ………….……..……. 6 MEMORABILIA NAZI MADNESS Holiday cards .….…….…………..…… 27 Wolfenstein …… ………………..……… 26 QUATERMASS II Quatermass ………….………………..…. 9 Fiction Interview CITY OF SECRETS DR. ADDERSON’S LENS DIESELPUNK’S L’ENFANT TERRIBLE Local Steampunk .…………….…..…. 25 By Natania Barron …………..……… 12 Sam Van Olffen …….……….……..…… 4 EDITOR Nick Ottens COLUMNISTS Daniel B. Craig, Hilde Heyvaert COVER ARTIST Myke Amend CONTRIBUTORS Dave Claus, Guy Dampier, Ella Kremper, Christian Matzke , FEATURED AUTHOR Natania Barron Sigurjón Njálsson, Marcius Rauchfuß, James Roberts, ‘Trubetskoy’ EDITORIAL The Gatehouse Gazette is an online magazine in publication since July 2008, dedicated to the speculative fiction genres of steampunk Halloween is almost upon us once again thus we celebrate and dieselpu nk. For past issues as well as “Forbidden Tales of Fervor and Fright” this issue behind an further information, please visit : outstanding cover provided by steampunk artists Mr Myke http://www. ottens.co.uk/gatehouse/gazette Amend of mykeamend.com. NICK OTTENS For discussion about this magazine as well as steampunk and dieselpunk in general, visit: We have for you, besides the familiar columns and reviews, an article about http://www.ottens.co.uk/lounge H.P. Lovecraft, master of the horror genre; a short story by Ms Natania Barron; the third and final installment in Ella’s “Hammer Horrors” series; ©2009 Gatehouse Gazette . All rights reserved. Neither this publication nor any “Metal casting for everyone” by Dave Claus; a review of the latest part of it may be reproduced, stored in a Wolfenstein game; and original Halloween holiday cards by Hilde Heyvaert. retrieval system, or transmitted in any form Allow me to express my gratitude hereby to all the fine people , including or by any means, electronic, mechanical, the ones I haven’t mentioned here, who contributed to this issue! photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of th e Much to our delight, dieselpunk artist Mr Sam Van Olffen agreed to be Gatehouse Gazette with the exception of the use of small exc erpts for announcements and interviewed for this issue and allowed us to feature some of his reviews. Published every two months by The outstanding artworks of “ big cities, pollu tion, oppressive atmospheres and Gatehouse . death” along with it! Check it out, on page 4. September 2009 Halloween Edition, released Due to technical difficulties on our part, we have not been able to receive 30 August at www.ottens.co.uk/gatehouse. any messages sent to the [email protected] address that was given as contact information in our las t issue. Please resend your inquiry . For letters and inquiries EMAIL [email protected]. PAGE 2 ISSUE 8 Gatehouse Gazette SEP ‘09 COLUMN THE STEAMPUNK WARDROBE A steampunk HILDE HEYVAERT Halloween MANY STEAMPUNKS ALL ACROSS however. and the parties thus were a the globe love the spooky holiday American society of the Gilded wonderful exc use for matchmaking. known as Hallowe’en. Therefore it is Age thought it essential to remove And enjoying light hear ted spooky time that we direct some of the any association with witchcraft, the fun and faux séances of course. spotlight onto that celebration of dead, sacrifices and offerings and The high society held costumed dressing up, scary fun and trick-or- concentrated on the more balls and charity parties. Magazines treating, and have a look at entertaining side of things. It was, and newspapers profited as they Halloween during a time that is published articles on how to give so special to so many within the a proper Halloween party, design movement: the Victorian Age. invitations, carve Jack o’ Halloween is, in spite of its Lanterns as well as rec ipes and increasing popularity in Europe, other Halloween features . still mainly an American event. The Americans did much to And it became that when the remove the significant historical industrial revolution hit America. value of the holiday , slowly It made its debut in the upper transforming it into a brand new echelons of American society concept purely for entertainment during the early 1870s. There it which the children c ould claim was interpreted as a quaint and for themselves, resulting in the entertaining English practice. holiday we all know today. The holiday had been Steampunk enthusiasts have introduced to the American picked up on the holiday just like people by European immigrants, ev eryone else who celebrates it. the Irish in particular, who had Some are recreating Victo rian come to the New World in the Halloween costumes from days hope of a better future, escaping past, and some are incorporating the famine and poor living Hallow een in to their steampunk conditions of their home outfits. This produces both countries. They brought with gorgeous historic ally accurate them their own culture, customs Halloween in the late 1800s. replica costumes and modern and holidays, Halloween, or acceptable nonetheless to attempt day outfits with details like Jack o’ Samhain , being one of them. to communicate with the dead for Lanterns and traditional Halloween The media of those times, one’s romantic interests, and this imagery. And yet others choose to books, papers and magazines practise grew i n popularity, be steampunks just for the day, advertised an inaccurate historical especially among young people. getting a taste of our wonderful background to the holiday, which Indeed, generally it was felt that subculture on everyone’s favourite helped its growth considerably Ha lloween was only for the young, costume holiday. ■ PAGE 3 ISSUE 8 Gatehouse Gazette SEP ‘09 INTERVIEW SAM VAN OLFFEN Dieselpunk’s NICK OTTENS l’ enfant terrible SAM VAN OLFFEN IS A TALENTED what attracted you dieselpunk artist from France to the genres? whose work has been featured at You might be exhibitions throughout the world. surprised but the For this issue, he kindly agreed to first time I heard answer some questions about about steampunk himself, his work and his thoughts was not with regard about the genres his creations are to Jules Verne or associated with. Wells but when I read the comic Please, tell us a bit about yourself. book Steampunk by I live and work in Montpellier, in the Chris Bacchlo. I South of France, where I was born. I have always found have always wanted to create this u niverse universes and characters, tell extremely interesting. What You are right when you think stories. I have always been attracted fascinated me the most was how dieselpunk fits my own style more. by science fiction and fantasy this period merged almost It is darker. Dieselpunk is the worlds, robots and monsters. molecularly with my worki ng psychopathic son of steampunk. I am self-taught, a self made technique. man. I had to stop going to school How w ould you explain for the and I started reading classical Your more recent works seem darker increasing appeal of steampunk? literature such as Virgil, Ovid, and more distinctively dieselpunk. Do I do not believe steampunk took so Gustave Flaubert and Hemingway. I you find this aesthetic fits your own long to become popular. I t came just grew up in a modest family. I never style better? at the right time. missed anything, but that is because You know, I like big cities, pollution, Th e centur y we live in is a all I needed were my comics when I oppressive atmospheres and peculiar one. A large part of was a child, cinema and VHS tapes everythi ng connected with death. I teenagers sink s into depths of when I was a teenager, and time to like architecture and above all I like ignorance while, a nd this is the main work now. Free time to live my history. I let things happen. With all paradox, they have an unrestricted passion is a luxury. these elemen ts combined you get access to absolute knowledge. It is dieselpunk in that respect that steampunk is a How did you first become interested I have learned that art is not a sheer product of our time and could in steampunk and dieselpunk and restricted circle and that with new not have b een created at any other technologies and time. It represents the obsolete “Dieselpunk is the psychopathic a bit of ideas, you values of a bygone era, t he Belle can create Époque , mixed with the son of steampunk.” interesting things. technological aspect of our time. All PAGE 4 ISSUE 8 Gatehouse Gazette SEP ‘09 this, we can clearly see, provides for Steamboy , we cannot virus that gets projection, dream, fantasy using really say that he inoculated in customs and codes from a romantic gave the best in him… people’s minds and past while keeping a technological three spinning gears quoted authors link with the present. are not eno ugh to happen to belong to Only a misled century like ours build a whole a time when there could give birth to steampunk. As universe. was no remedy far as I know, this attempt to create To me Captain against it. a link, to recycle the past did not Sky was the only one exist in the nineteenth century. to play his game well, Are there any There was no fictional rebirth or but this is another steampunk or industrial royalty at the time of stor y more on the dieselpunk artists or Baudelaire or Verne.
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