Prisoners of the Night

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Prisoners of the Night is a het and slash vampire anthology originally titled "Children of the Night." 
There were eleven issues.
This zine was unique in that it paid its contributors. 
==A 1992 Submission Request==
From a submission request for the sixth issue, published in On the Double #23: 
==2014 Comments from the Editor==
==Issue 1==
 
Prisoners of the Night 1 was published in 1987 and contains 156 pages. The front cover is by Gayle F..
The interior art is by Shellie Whild, Alayne Gelfand, Alfred Klosterman, Chris Soto, M.B. Simon, Caro Hedge, and Alice Rathbone. 
The characters of Tom and Clarisse from "Of Vampires and Gentlemen" appear in issue #8 of The Holmesian Federation.
From the editorial: 
* Prisoners of the Night, poem by Alayne Gelfand (inside cover)
* In Darkness, poem by Dwight E. Humphries (4)
* Vampire Watcher, fiction by Wendy Rathbone (5)
* Lamia by Dallance McCasland (27)
* Ghost-Granted, poem by Jordon Brade (28)
* Eye of the Night, poem by Ellen Thacher (29)
* The Five of Swords/The Three of Swords (30)
* The Ties That Bind by Peter S. Gilmore (31)
* The Ten of Coins, poem by Wendy Rathbone (38)
* Of a Time, fiction by A.L. Hughes (39)
* One More Customer, fiction by Wayne Rile Williams (53)
* The Uninvited, poem by Jordon Brade (55)
* Vampire Persuasion, poem by Wendy Rathbone (57)
* Time Lost, poem by Dwight E. Humphries (58)
* Of Vampires and Gentlemen, fiction by A.R. Morlan ("A lonely vampire meets the most intriguing man of his long life and vast experience; a man who is a vampire of a different kind — In contemporary 1980s San Diego, a young woman discovers the hidden secrets of the mesmerizing man she’s met at a local bar and yearns to become part of that mystery — An eternally young woman searches the centuries and the continents for that which she found elusive in life; for her other half, for a touch of happiness, for herself — At a gay bar in Soho, England, a young man runs into mystery, sensuality, vampirism and love — The rape of a young woman results in a strangely wondrous birth, beauty, love, fulfillment, and tragedy — Meet Tom Chapman, a stable boy in rural England near the turn of the century who encounters Clarisse, a sophisticated, beautiful woman from the continent who is much more than she at first appears to be...") (59)
* Shade, poem by Lisa Joas (68)
* No Choice At All, fiction by Sue-Anne Hartwick (69)
* Where Only Two Watch, poem by Dallance McCasland (79)
* The Falling Tower, poem by Wendy Rathbone (80)
* The Night Keeper, fiction by Alayne Gelfand (81)
* The Dark Side of the Sun, fiction by S. Warner (93)
* Vampire Dreams, poem by Wendy Rathbone (99)
* Werelings, poem by Alayne Gelfand (101)
* Mage, poem by Dwight E. Humphries (102)
*Shadows in October, fiction by Robin Hood (103)
* Insomnia #2, poem by Dallance McCasland (114)
* Of Dark and Bright, fiction by Tina Rhea (115)
* Alteration, fiction by Tina Rhea (128)
* Darkness, fiction by Tina Rhea (135)
* The First Time Ever, fiction by (151)
* The Autumn People, poem by Wendy Rathbone (155)
* Ebon and Scarlet, poem by Dallance McCasland (156)
 
Image:prisonersofthenight1-1.jpg|from issue #1, Alfred Klosterman
 
Image:prisonersofthenight1-2.jpg|from issue #1, Chris Soto
Image:prisonersofthenight1-3.jpg|from issue #1, M.B. Simon
Image:prisonersofthenight1-4.jpg|from issue #1, Alayne Gelfand
Image:prisonersofthenight1-5.jpg|from issue #1, Alfred Klosterman
Image:prisonersofthenight1-6.jpg|from issue #1, Alfred Klosterman
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Prisoners of the Night 2 contains 144 spiral bound pages and was published in July 1988. It has a cover by Marilyn Cole.
thumb|cover issue #2, by Marilyn Cole -- this image scan is from the publisher's web page|left
* Waking The Vampire by Wendy Rathbone: (Alexis is young, Alexis is newly a vampire. Valerian is there to help & guide him, to introduce him to the ways of their kind... to the delights, to the privileges, and to the horrors.)
* Dream Journal by John Soule (A series of dreams after his wife's death has started Thomas O'Keefer writing in a journal of his own nocturnal wanderings.)
* Plus fiction, poetry & art by: Baylor Adams, Leo Bigley, Taerie Bryant, Cathy Buburuz, William Crook, Cathy Deaubl, Michael Drax, Alayne Gelfand, John Grey, Sue-Ann Hartwick, Stefanie Kate Hawks, Caro Hedge, Robin Hood, Dwight Humphries, Robert Jamison, Alfred Klosterman, Hugh Knox, Suzan Lovett, Cybel Harper, Anne Kay Schwaeder, Marge Simon, Chris Soto.
==Issue 3==
Prisoners of the Night 3 was published in 1989 and contains 120 perfect bound pages. Artwork by John Borkowski, M. B. Simon, K. Lidenmoth, Ann Mara McConachy, A. Kosterman, Ree Young, Marilyn Cole, and Gayle F. 
 
* Three on Montague by John Grey
* Whatever Happened to Candice? by Baylor Adams
* The Language of the Hot Plates by Sonia and Naomi Hughes
* A Terrible Fruit by Alayne Gelfand
* Love and Forgiveness by Wendy Rathbone
* More Rare Than Blood by Della Van Hise
* The Better Feast by Dan Persons
* Nightchild by Cathy Buburuz
* The Witch of Hearts by Alayne Gelfand
* Heartburn by Robin Hood
* other unknown content
==Issue 4==
Prisoners of the Night 4 was published in 1990 and contains 116 pages
The art is by M.B. Simon, Alfred Klosterman, John Borkowski, Bucky Montgomery, Janet R. DuPuy, Jim Garrison, Tristan Alexander, Cathy Buburuz, and Alayne.
 
* Funeral Wreath, poem by Marlys Bradley Huffman (3)
* In the Dark by Taerie Bryant (5)
* Annie's Stranger by Elaine Cole Crombie (12)
* A Vampire Dreams, poem by Ann K. Schwader (12)
* Wooden Eyes, fiction by Naomi and Sonia Hughes (13)
* Stigma, poem by by Jacie Ragan (29)
* Hello Lilianne by Wendy Rathbone (30)
* The Heart of the Vampire, poem by by Time Gene Rice (31)
* Kiss and Make Well, poem by by Jacie Ragan (32)
* From a Need to Linger by John Grey (33)
* Summer Wind, poem by by Alayne Gelfand (37)
* Persecution, poem by by Justice Howard (38)
* The Bite, poem by by Michael A. Arnzen (39)
* Dark One, poem by by John Grey (40)
* Nightcast by Wendy Rathbone (41)
* Tasting Summer by Lisa Lepovetsky (46)
* Clowns in the Dark by by Charles A. Gramlich (47)
* Sunset, poem by by Ree Young (48)
* Obligation by by Joyce M. Rattray (49)
* Moon Goddess, poem by by Wendy Rathbone (51)
* Journal Vampire, poem by by G. Sutton Breiding (53) 
* The Demon by Taerie Bryant (55)
* Slut Succubus, poem by by Justine Howard (67)
* Unholy Night, poem by by John Grey (68)
* As He Changes, poem by by John Grey (69)
* Angel and the Rose, poem by by Mark Overby (70)
* Alternaties by Ann K. Schwader (71)
* The Vampire Child, poem by by Jacie Ragan (79)
* Interlude, poem by by Tiffany Lynne Runyan (81)
* Tara, poem by by Cathy Buburuz (82)
* The Visitor by Taerie Bryant (83)
* Heart Engravings/Heat Engravings II, poem by by Cathy Buburuz (85)
* Carnations, poem by by Denise Dumars (86)
* Hitchwhorer, poem by by M.B. Simon (87)
* Sea Burial, poem by by Ann K. Schwader (88)
* To Sacrifice the Sun by Alay Gelfand (89)
*Foreplay, poem by by Wendy Rathbone (96)
* Poor Relation, poem by by Taerie Bryant (97)
* The New Death, poem by by Wendy Rathbone (99)
* Memories, poem by by Ree Young (101)
* The Transcendence, poem by by Baylor Adams (102)
* Life Support by Sonia and Naomi Hughes (103)
* One a Night With a Vampire, poem by by John Grey (114)
* Daydreams, poem by by Jacie Ragan (115)
 
Image:prisonersofthenight4-1.jpg|from issue #4, Tristan Alexander
Image:prisonersofthenight4-2.jpg|from issue #4, John Borkowski
Image:prisonersofthenight4-3.jpg|from issue #4, Alfred Klosterman
Image:prisonersofthenight4-4.jpg|from issue #4, M.B. Simon
Image:prisonersofthenight4-5.jpg|from issue #4, M.B. Simon
Image:prisonersofthenight4-6.jpg|from issue #4, Janet DuPuy
Image:prisonersofthenight4-7.jpg|from issue #4 
Image:prisonersofthenight4-8.jpg|from issue #4, Jim Garrison
Image:prisonersofthenight4-9.jpg|from issue #4, Bucky Montgomery
Image:prisonersofthenight4-10.jpg|from issue #4, M.B. Simon
==Issue 5==
Prisoners of the Night 5 was published in 1991. Cover by KOZ.
* Poetry: My Love Comes Dressed Only in Eternity by Charlee Jacob, art by Bridget McCoy 
* Fiction: Loose Change by Kay Reynolds, art by Marilyn Cole 
* other unknown content
==Issue 6==
Prisoners of the Night 6 was published in 1992 and contains 82 pages. 
It has art by M.B. Simon, Bridget McCoy, Jim Garrison, Alfred Kosterman, Ree Young, Marilyn Cole, Donald Schank, Jim Garrison, Cathy Buburuz, William Carr, Debra Ostrokolowicz, Janet Dupuy, Eugene Gryniewicz, and Cathy Miller Burgoyne.
From the zine: 
 
* Mortal by Ernie Hilbert Jr. (3)
* Vampire Poet by Wendy Rathbone (5)
* The Ophelias, fiction by Charlee Jacob, art by Cathy Miller Burgoyne (7)
* The Petrified Man, poem by Jacie Ragan (13)
* The Petrified Man, poem by Jacie Ragan, art by Alfred Kosterman (13)
* essay by G. Sutton Breiding (15)
* Dwellers in Darkness, poem by Chad Hensley (16)
* Welcome to the Dream, fiction by F.A. McMahan (19)
* Pulse, poem by Ann K. Schwader (27)
* Loving in the Night, poem by Wendy Rathbone (29)
* Crimson Lament, poem by Jacki Marunycz (30)
* The Sybarite, fiction by Taerie Bryant (31)
* White Throats, poem by G. Sutton Breiding (37) 
* Why We Shun Reflection, Why We Fear the Light, fiction by Charles M. Sapiak (39)
* The Darkness is Medieval in All Centuries, poem by Charles Jacob (41)
* Vampire Lover, poem by John Grey (42)
* Nightlovers' Tour of London, fiction by Lorraine A. Jean (43)
* Cryptic Dreams, poem by Alex Grayton (47)
* The Rise of the Ancient Vampire, poem by Wendy Rathbone (49)
* The Calligraphy of Blood, poem by Jacie Ragan (50)
* The Lady Wore Black, fiction by Charles A. Gramlich (51)
* Passing the Dead on 12th Street, poem by Ernie Hilbert Jr. (55)
* Cat-Winds, poem by Carl Heffley (57)
* The Other Forever, poem by Jon Grey (58)
* Stand Not Alone Against Eternity, fiction by Ash Clayton (59)
* Lord of Shadows, poem by Ann K. Schwader (71)
* His, poem by Ernie Hilbert Jr. (73)
*What Mothers Never Tell You, poem by Jacki Marunycz (76)
* Like Cats, fiction by J.A. Wells (76)
* Partner Immortals, fiction by Wendy Rathbone (77)
 
Image:prisonersofthenight6-1.jpg|from issue #6, Donald Schank
Image:prisonersofthenight6-2.jpg|from issue #6, Debra Ostrokolowicz
Image:prisonersofthenight6-3.jpg|from issue #6, Marilyn Cole
==Issue 7==
Prisoners of the Night 7 was published in 1993 and contains 86 pages. 
From Media Monitor: "Original character erotic vampire fiction and poetry by Nancy Kilpatrick, James S. Sorr, Taerie Bryant, Charlee Jacob, Della Van Hise, and more. 
Art by DuPay, Farver, Klosterman, Garrison, Gryniewicz, Kucharski, McCoy, Simon and more. Full cover cover by Marilyn Cole."
* The Perseid Lights, poem by Gary J. Whitehead, art by Bridget McCoy 
* The Cold of Snow & Ghosts, fiction by Charles A. Gramlich, art by M.B. Simon 
* Belly Full of Midnight, fiction by Della Van Hise ("Risa prayed for a cure for her husband, willing to go to any length for that cure. But she soon found out that wanting and having are two very different matters.") 
* other unknown content
==Issue 8==
Prisoners of the Night 8 was published in 1994.
The front cover is by Janet DuPuy.
In one story, "a blind sculptress needs a subject; working the graveyard shift should be a breeze for a vampire until rowdy teenagers come along; the Dust Bowl could make a make a man see many strange and wonderful things."
* Husks, poem by Wendy Rathbone, art by Bridget McCoy 
* Warm Red Shadows, fiction by Sonia & Naomi Hughes, art by Michael Kucharski 
* When Good Food Goes Bad, fiction by Della Van Hise ("Sage sat at his console and placed the flute in his lap... Bitterness tightened the long fingers to fists, and a poignant resignation caused tenebrous eyes to harden. He was master of his own mind, proficient in the fighting arts, skilled as a healer. Yet he could do nothing to redirect the disease in his own body... the mysterious code of DNA itself, it made him hungry, it left him always cold.")
* other fiction by Charlee Jacob. Charles Gramlich, Sonia & Naomi Hughes, Lorraine Jean, Taerie Bryant, and Adam Meyer 
* other poems by Tufts, Love, Schwader, Jacob, Grey, Day, Verba, Meyer, Koenig, Ragan, Davis, Perkins, and DeWinter
==Issue 9==
Prisoners of the Night 9 was published in 1995. 
It has a cover by Michael Apice. 
Other art is by Blevins, Buburuz, Dahlstrom, DuPuy, Fallis, Farver, Garrison, Gryneiwicz, Haas, Klosterman, McCoy, Simon, Williams, and Young.
* Ballad of the Sad Rat, poem by Anne Rice
* Strawberries, fiction by Margaret Smith
* Dragon Chains, fiction by A.R. Morlan ("Rose longed to know the truth about Elizabeth's tattoos, her provocative piercings, but there was little chance of her ever asking. The words were forever trapped within the shell of her shyness... or were they?")
* Dark Moon Rising, poem by Ann K. Schwander
* Blood Butterflies, poem by Tippi N. Blevins
* What Was Asked: What Was Givenm fiction by Charles A. Gramlich
* A Stranger in Your Midst, poem by John Grey
* at his eternal caprice, poem by Karen Verba
* Hunting the Deathless, poem by Charlee Jacob
* You Autumn, poem by Corrine DeWinter
* The Slyph, fiction by Taerie Bryant
* Vampire at Midnight, poem by Wendy Rathbone
* Starbox, fiction by Charlee Jacob
* Hyacynthe and Me, fiction by Margaret B. Simon
* The Vampire Cathedral, poem by Wendy Rathbone
* The Myrtle Fairy, fiction by Naomi Hughes and Sonia Hughes
* Liliths, Softly, poem by Charlee Jacob
* Sad Executioner, poem by Richar King Perkins, II
* Letter to Alexi, fiction Lynn Flewelling
* Even the Leave Were Blood, poem by Margaret Smith
* Midnight on the Dark Angel Watch, poem by Ann K. Schwader
* Portraits, poem by Charlee Jacob
* Bitters, fiction by Wendy Rathbone
* The Stranger's Kiss, poem by B. Kim Meyer
* Eyes, poem by B. Kim Meyer
* The Antediluvians, fiction by Jacqueline Carey
* Mon Venus De Sangre, poem by Margaret B. Simon
* Washing the Dark, poem by Corrine DeWinter, art by Darren Cerone 
* The Mingling of Blood, poem by Tippi N. Blevins
* Kiss of the Black Angel (Part 1 of 2), fiction by Della Van Hise, art by Janet DuPuy
==Issue 10==
Prisoners of the Night 10 was published in 1997 and contains 96 pages. 
It has art by Eugene Gryneiwicz, Alfred Klosterman, Gary McClusky, M.B. Simon, Tippi N. Blevins, Ree Young, Alayne, Michael Apice, R. Dahlstrom, Cathy Buburuz, Charles Fallis, Charles Thompson, Jeff Haas, Bob Crouch, Bridget A. McCoy, Jim Garrison, and Darren Cerone.
* The Tattooist, poem by Tippi N. Blevins (3)
* Icarus's Bride, poem by Elizabeth Wein (4)
* Orphans of the Moon by Cathryn Pisarki ("Two vampires, separately searching the world for another of their kind, finally reach their goals.") (5)
* The Blooding Cage by Rhonda Eikamp ("A scientist in search of vampires ventures into space and encounters the horrifying, true nature of reality.") (7)
* Vampyre Land: Blueprints, poem by Della Van Hise (12)
* The Wounding by Lynda Malm ("When Giu met the lost, damaged, blind girl, he had no intention of taking her in. No, his thoughts had been more along the subject of feeding. But things often change, especially in ways you can never foresee.")(13)
* Relics, poem by Charlee Jacob (18)
* A Vampire Lover, poem by Wendy Rathbone (19)
* Mythology, poem by Corrine DeWinter (20)
* Samaritan by Tom Piccirilli ("when the undercover operation he's on goes bad, Detective Lambino receives help from the most impossible of quarters.") (21)
* The Show -- Back Stage, poem (25)
* Ghost Town, poem by Della Van Hise (26)
* Love Sucks by Adam Meyer ("The further adventures of Jim Kowanoisky, vampire and reluctant companion to an unruly mob of teenage werewolves.") (27)
* A Vampire's Playground, poem by Bobbi Sinha (33)
* Nosferatu Appears as a Black Hole, poem by Ann K. Schwader (34)
* Hades and Persephone, poem by Holly Riggenbach (35)
* Autumn Foundling by Wendy Rathbone ("In a future drained of magic and ruled by technology, a young woman at an isolated college finds herself in the midst of an extremely magical presence.") (37)
* Red in the Language of Night, poem by Charlee Jacob (42)
* Tatiana by B. Kim Meyer ("Can the certainly of advise given in youth succor the pain of years of watching a dear friend pine for a vampire you convinced her never really existed?") (43)
* Reptiles, poem by Wendy Rathbone (45)
* Lake, poem by John Grey (46)
* Vessel for the Holy by Charles A. Gramlich ("The vampire Kainja comes face-to-face with his own origins via the nearly deranged machinations of a scientist who is also a Catholic nun.") (47)
* House Guest: Campfires, poem by Della Van Hise (52)
* Mark of a Dreamer by Tippi N. Blevins ("A vampire, desperate for the human ability to dream once again, wends a maddening path through the people who find themselves drawn to his tattoo parlor.") (53)
* Blood Letters, poem by Ann K. Schwader (60)
* Gypsy Moon, Father Moon, poem (61)
* Vampire Meditation, poem by Wendy Rathbone (62)
* The Starry Night by Charlee Jacob ("Were the intense colors and shapes of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings the visions of a madman... or were they visions from another, supernatural source?") (63)
* After the Evening Swim, poem by Karen Oyerly (65)
* Husks by Wendy Rathbone ("It's an unfortunate fact that not all vampires survive immortality. Now Charles must watch as another loved one fades.") (66)
* Falling in the Garden of Angels, poem by Tippi N. Blevins
* The Morning After by Della Van Hise ("The next installment in Della's novel, "Kiss of the Black Angel," in which Stephan explores his new world and, especially, Miquel, the mysterious vampire who gave it to him.")
* The Bone-Birds, poem by Johannah Kincaid (81)
* Japanese Dance, poem by Corrine DeWinter (82)
* Ambrosia, poem by Natasha Solten (83)
* Vampyre Communion: The Dark Red Mass, poem by Della Van Hise (87)
* Weeping Infinite, poem by Steve Rogers (88)
* A Night at the Symphonic, poem by Margaret B. Simon (89)
* Dance, poem by Eric Alessandri (90)
* Presently the Horses Began to Scream, poem by Susan Maurer (91)
* Music Review (92)
* Biographies (93)
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 10==
==Issue 11==
Prisoners of the Night 11 was published in 1999, cover photography by D. Van Hise.
* Poetry: Vampire Children by Wendy Rathbone, art by Cathy Buburuz 
* Fiction: The All-Night Café by Charlee Jacob ("In the antiseptic existence of the cyber world, a woman finds a human connection and reconsiders her choices — At the close of the Civil War, a woman struggles to understand her new life, aided by a rare, beautiful and magickal gift — Some survive the transformation into the century France, a police officer tracks a serial killer through the salons of the Impressionist painters — Bant protected the dead from the Ghouls but little did he think he would ever be tricked by one of them — She knew the vampires were leaving, she just didn’t understand why — Woman, artist, vampire hunter, who would ever have guessed she would fall under the spell of one of the creatures — The ghosts where there and, even though he couldn’t see them, he knew the vampire he served could and did — A lonely vampire meets a mysterious woman and, together, the worst parts of their lives fall into place…")
* other unknown content
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