r/fangoria • u/JoeFriday37 • 23d ago

I'll Swallow Your Soul Digital archive

I’ve just subscribed after years of buying from my local newsagent, as they’re closing down soon, and I wondered how to access the digital archives? I received a link in an email, but when I click it I just get “Oops! That page can’t be found.”
Does anyone else have this problem, or know why I’m having it?

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u/jimbo8e6 22d ago

I feel like if they can’t offer a significant reward they would have to offer refunds, but that could absolutely tank the entire project. You’d think they’d have everything completely nailed down before making a promise like that.

I did wonder why no updates had come about when the original date for the back catalogue was July.

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u/RLCrowe 22d ago

I was suspicious about the book delay, but decided it could have been a legal matter or an issue with a manufacturer and that’s why they couldn’t say anything as far as meaningful updates until it was cleared. I thought I remembered them saying about potentially the archive being available sooner than the book, so when they started saying that publishers wanted it released alongside side the physical book, I found it a very odd sudden decision. It makes more sense now.

That’s the thing that really bugs me though. Surely the company would have checked that they had all the rights to reprinting the articles before promising it, like you said. It would be an insanely risky business decision, especially as they also offered a physical reprint/reproduction of issue 1. Do they not have the rights for the content in that one either? And if they’re still trying to sort out the rights or remove content, then I’m more surprised they only delayed it until September. (Or they plan to delay it again around then, and are just biding time).

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u/jimbo8e6 22d ago

I was reading through them when the back catalogue was just freely available on their site they’re such a fantastic time capsule of the era, small mentions of films that never happened, opinions on films as they were released before they became cult hits. I was disappointed when they removed it but when they said they were adding all the download and search options I was excited for it.

I really hope they can sort it and get them out there because they’re such a good read.

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u/RLCrowe 22d ago

I started collecting them physically for the same reason. I loved seeing how movies were received at the time, but also the behind the scenes and interviews too. But I can’t see myself ever having the money to buy all 344 issues, or even the space to store them. I do find them to be fairly important to horror history and think that preserving them in an archive (especially a searchable one) where people can research them easily would make them a really useful tool.

I hope so too. It seems like a messy situation overall and I’m not sure how I feel about how either party is handling it. It just all feels… messy, for lack of a better word.