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- What are the addresses of various fanzines and fan clubs, and how can I join?
Unless otherwise noted, send an SASE or international reply coupon, depending on where you live in relation to where the fan club is for information concerning membership, newsletters, etc. You can get international reply coupons at the post office.
If you know of any other fanzines/newsletters we've missed, please email us.
United States
Australia
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Scotland
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Internet
- There are several zillion Rocky Horror mailing lists at http://www.yahoogroups.com. Many are short-lived and more social than anything else, but there are a few gems out there. Happy hunting.
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- How can I write to the stars?
You can write to the stars care of the Official Fan Club (see above) or Time Warp. They will forward your letter...you might even get a reply!
No, we don't have their addresses, and if we did, we wouldn't give them to you. So there.
- What newsletters and fanzines have existed throughout the years?
Many casts have newsletters, fanzines, programs, et cetera, and it is nearly impossible to keep track of them all (and most don't last that long). Many people collect this sort of thing, so you can also just ask around. Also, whenever you see the show in a new place, ask the cast if they have a mailing list or a semi-regular newsletter. Many nowadays are electronic; you can often sign up at a cast's website. (Alas, these are often short-lived too.) They should be more than happy to have an additional subscriber.
Some significant newsletters from the past include (in no particular order): TimeWarp (still going after more than 10 years!), the fanzine for the UK Fan Club; The Transylvanian (former fanzine for the US and International Fan Club); Rocky Horror Shop Talk (ran for 9 years, evolving from a simple catalog to a fullblown fanzine); Castle Times (formerly run by Eric Bradshaw out of Rochester; mostly regional); The Transylvaniagram; The Master's Affair; Madness Takes Its Toll. There have been many others. Right now Crazed Imaginations (in print since 1995) is the only national newsletter based in the United States (though they do international coverage).
The UK Fan Club "TimeWarp" has an excellent detailed listing of different Rocky Horror books, with photos of the covers and reviews of the contents. Most of the books listed below are included. Highly recommended!
Books are in print unless otherwise noted. Some of these books sell for really ridiculous sums in used bookstores and on eBay: people see the words "Rocky Horror" and assume it's rare and collectible. Shop around before paying a lot of money. Most of them (with the possible exception of the RH Experience and hardcover Movie Novels) aren't that hard to find.
- Pre-1990
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show Book - Bill Henkin (1979) Probably the best-known. The binding is very cheap and most of us have loved ours to death. Not that well-organized (most RH books aren't, frankly), but includes lots of good information and was done soon enough after the film that lots of good source material was easily available. Several photos are mirror images, and this book is notorious for the "scrapbook" layout of some of its pages, with things you desperately want to see covered up by another item. A great place to start your collection, and since it was in print forever (until 1995 or so), copies are available cheap ($10 and less easy), though if you *want* to pay $50 for it, you can find copies marked up to that price.
- The Rocky Horror Show Book - James Harding (1987-Out of Print). Tends to be harder to find and will probably run you at least $50. Badly organized and heavy on coverage of the UK Hanley tour, but there are lots of great photos and information.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Novel - A&W Visual Library, edited by Richard J. Anobile; intro by Sal Piro (1980-Out of Print). Both hard and soft-cover.
- The Rocky Horror Scrapbook (limited printing of 2000) - designed by Brian Thomson; reissued in 1999 in the UK (available from the Fan Club--if yours is autographed by Richard O'Brien, don't get excited; the reissue master is Christopher Malcolm's autographed copy of the original printing)
- Books by Sal Piro
- Creatures of the Night: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Experience - Sal Piro (1990-Out of Print). I often forget how much great material is in here. Some places sell this for $50; you should be able to find it for $25.
- Creatures of the Night II: More of the Rocky Horror Picture Show Experience - Sal Piro (1996). Covers 1990-1995. Still in print for $18, but some places will try to sell it to you for $50 anyway.
- Rocky Horror Picture Show Audience Participation Book - Sal Piro and Mike Hess (1991, out of print). I refer mostly to the appendix, which includes what was a fairly thorough list of collectibles (now out of date, but still interesting).
- Fan-Written Books
- Researched Books with Interviews
If you want to read what the people involved say about the project more than 20 years later, you will love these. If you just want pretty pictures and basic info, you might want to start with the Henkin book instead.
- Rocky Horror: From Concept to Cult - Scott Michaels and David Evans (2002; they interviewed just about everybody involved). The most recent RHPS book; heavily researched, with an index and some nice photos from the personal collections of people in the film.
- Cosmic Light: The Birth of a Cult Classic - Jim Whittaker. A history of the play and film from its origins to the release of the film. Highly recommended. Written by a fan with an extremely limited printing (1000 or so), this has gone out of print.
- Non-US
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25 Años de Culto - Miguel Ángel Parra. From Midons Editorial,
ISBN: 84-89240-65-5. In Spanish; includes information you'll find nowhere else on the development of RHPS in Spain. Unfortunately, we're not sure where you can buy a copy. Try hunting by ISBN. Or contact the Rocky Horror Fan Club Spain and propose a trade; that's how we got our copy.
- Rocky Horror: 25 anni di cult In Italian. The "Tim's Lips" website says you can order it from them, but when we contacted them, they never got back to us.
- Post-1990 Books
- Midnight Movies - J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum (1991 - not a RHPS book, but has many pictures and commentary)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show Comic Books (three issues, a second printing of issue #1, and a jumbo "compilation" book of all three) - Kevin VanHook (out of print but available cheap on eBay). Badly-copied from frames of the film, released right after the 15th anniversary to make a buck. The appendices are interesting, and the covers are pretty. Took forever to start appreciating; don't pay too much.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Movie Script (1995). A nice edition; handy for reference if you want a paper copy.
- Piano Scores
- The Rocky Horror Show - Richard O'Brien. Don't get too excited; this is the piano score (music and lyrics). Includes photos from the play; similar to "The Rocky Horror Experience" but with no film or fan club content.
- The Rocky Horror Experience - Richard O'Brien (piano score: includes photos from London, Roxy, Belasco, and the movie) (Out of Print)
- Richard O'Brien's "The Rocky Horror Show": Vocal Selections. (1990) Another piano score, this one with black and white photos of the 1990 West End revival with Anthony Head as Frank. I prefer the piano arrangements in the earlier release.
- What magazine articles have been written?
If you are looking for more recent articles, there are several zillion available on the web: ladies and gentlemen, start your search engines!
If you are more interested in scholarly articles, here's a very incomplete list. Many thanks to Elizabeth Allen, whose excellent site (http://welcome.to/thefrankensteinplace) has an annotated bibliography.
- Toward a Sociology of Cult Films: Reading Rocky Horror
Kinkade, Patrick T. et al.
Sociological Quarterly (33:2), 1992. 191-209.
- 'Rocky Horror: the case of the rampant audience'
Rolling Stone, April 5, 1979 p. 20
- The Rocky Horror Picture Cult
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Sight and Sound, spring 1980 (London)
- Midnight S/Excess: Cult Configurations of Femininity and the Perverse
Journal of Film and Television, vol. 17, #1 Spring 1989 (cover article)
Gaylyn Studlar
- Rocky Horror: The Newest Cult
Christian Century. Sept 12, 1979 p 860
- Postmodern Gay Dionysus: Dr. Frank N. Furter
Aviram, Amittai
Journal of Popular Culture (26:3), 1992. 183-192.
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Rocky Horror Picture Cult." Sight and Sound (49:2), 1980. 79-80.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show: More Than a Lip Service
Siegel, Mark
Science-Fiction Studies (7), 1980. 305-312.
- Frankenstein and the Anatomy of Horror
Siegel, Mark
Georgia Review, (37:1), 1983. 41-78.
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