Cannibal Girls

Trashfiend, the magazine devoted to "Horror & Exploitation Fare from the 1960s & 1970s," was built upon the still- steaming remains of GICK!, which folded the previous year. Unlike its predecessor, Trashfiend's focus was on low- rent horror fare and monster memorabilia from the two decades with which creator Scott Aaron Stine was (and still is) obsessed. Far superior to GICK!, Trashfiend upped the ante by improving upon the previous magazine's format in both depth and scope, as well as its standards of quality. Despite the greater attention to obsessive details and watershed professionalism, Trashfiend retained the trademarked humor and love for bad media for which Stigmata Press had become associated. Although the magazine has been officially on hiatus after only three issues, creator Scott Stine has not abandoned Stigmata's flagship book; the first Trashfiend book was scheduled to be released in early 2008 by David Kereke's highly respected Critical Vision imprint, the publisher of the critically acclaimed publication devoted to underground culture, Headpress. This and other proposed books in this new series will pick up where its quarterly counterpart left off, whilst offering a much greater breadth of information that had been denied space in the forty-eight page magazine that preceded it. --