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#1 2009-08-30 13:47
Issue 8
The Halloween Edition of the Gatehouse Gazette celebrates “Forbidden Tales of Fervor and Fright” with features that ought to startle any steampunk enthusiast of repute.
Behind a spectacular cover by Myke Amend, Ms Hilde Heyvaert of House of Secrets Incorporated opens with an article about Victorian Halloween and provides homemade holiday greeting cards appropriate to the season. We feature an interview with the enfant terrible of dieselpunk, artist Sam Van Olffen and proudly introduce Ms Natania Barron with the short story, “Dr. Adderson’s Lens.”
Mr Rauchfuß brings the history of H.P. Lovecraft, master of the horror genre, while Ella Kremper concludes her series of Hammer Horror reviews with the 1968 The Devil Rides Out. Further reviews include You Are Empty, set in a post-apocalyptic Soviet-Union, and the latest installment in the Wolfenstein franchise.
Click here or on the image to download this issue!
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#3 2009-08-30 15:18
- Ella Kremper
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Re: Issue 8
The cover art is fantastic! 
Sorry, left the Falcon in the Bentley. Right now, you answer to my Ronson T-T.
All hail Kremperpunk.
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#5 2009-08-30 15:29
Re: Issue 8
Ella Kremper wrote:
The cover art is fantastic!
I know! Maybe I'll be able to convince Myke to do another one for our next issue.
Albrecht wrote:
Put it up on my blog, as usual
Thanks for the post, Albrecht!
Another fine and this time spooky issue of the Gatehouse Gazette. [...] Best read on a gloomy evening with fog drifting outside.
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#6 2009-08-30 16:37
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#8 2009-08-31 14:22
Re: Issue 8
Thanks to Natania for posting about the release:
Gatehouse Gazette #8 is out and, even more exciting than usual, contains my story, “Dr. Adderson’s Lens”. This little story was originally slated for a place in The Willows Magazine, but we all know how that ended. I don’t write short stories that often, but I really liked this weird little piece. I contacted the folks at the Gazette about the tale and they liked it enough to put it in their next issue! I’ve always loved the Gazette–as well as their fabulous forum and site–and it’s definitely exciting to be a part of it. It’s always nice to have a story find a home. This is also the Halloween issue, which is cool as anything.
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#9 2009-08-31 21:09
- Col. Adrianna Hazard
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Re: Issue 8
Wow, what an awesome issue! Now I'm really interested in trying my hand at some metal casting. Great work everybody 
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#10 2009-09-01 10:14
Re: Issue 8
Thanks to Dr Molinarius for posting about it at his blog:
The Gatehouse Gazette [...] showcases the wide diversity of talents demonstrated by denizens of the Gatehouse's Smoking Lounge and their steampunk friends.
[...]
So, download, print off or upload to your mobile device, and settle into a comfortable armchair as the nights draw in. Pour yourself a nice glass of something warming, and cosy down in front of the fire to an evening of exceptional steampunk writing and exploration!
And to Hilde for posting at her LiveJournal (along with pretty much all the other steampunk LJs of note 
):
[...] this bimonthly edition is all about the frightful things we all love.
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