The Dark Side (magazine)

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The Dark Side

Issue 179 cover, 2016
Editor	Allan Bryce
Categories	Horror fiction
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Publisher	Ghoulish Publishing
Founded	1990
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	https://thedarksidemagazine.com/
ISSN	0960-6653
OCLC	500038477

The Dark Side is a UK magazine covering the field of horror cinema. Published every four weeks, it covers new releases and features interviews with directors and actors. Launched in 1990,^[1] it has been edited throughout its run by Allan Bryce. Originally owned by part of Robert Maxwell's publishing empire, it was later bought by Stray Cat, in which Bryce was a partner.

The original 1st 12 issues of the magazine were designed by Jeff Gurney - Designer and Art editor, who came up with the original layout and design concept, headers and title logo of the magazine which was hand drawn and is still used today.

Jeff Gurney stopped designing the magazine after the Maxwell company was dissolved after Maxwells death and it was sold and handed over to Allan Bryce of Stray Cat with help and instruction from Jeff Gurney of the design, to help keep the magazine going in its same format.

It also has a DVD and book imprint. Releases include a reissue of John Martin's study of the "video nasty" phenomenon, The Seduction of the Gullible.

The magazine ceased publication in September 2009, but was re-launched under Ghoulish Publishing a year and a half later, going on sale on a bi-monthly basis from 21 April 2011, the first issue being dated May/June 2011.^[2] In November 2012, Ghoulish Publishing launched Dark Side Digital, a bi-monthly online subscription magazine which alternated each month with the print edition found on shelves. The Dark Side is available in the UK and abroad, and as of issue 166 the print magazine was available every six weeks and a digital edition is available simultaneously at the magazine's website.

As of May 13, 2021 The Dark Side and its sister publication Infinity, a cult sci-fi/TV magazine, began being published every four-weeks.^[3][4]