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As a longtime reader, now contributor and certainly a friend of the mag, I would hate to see any of these changes be implemented. You did some outstanding work in the last 2 years, and while it didn't make as much more or get as much cred or perhaps win new readers (all of which is a disappointment), the quality was skyrocketed and the scope of LSoH changed. You got what others did not. I'm glad we could do some of that together. Yes I was bummed that the Polanski intv wasn't as heralded as I thought it would be. But even you can now claim what other mags can't - and like all issues you have produced, the current state of your magazine is one of the hardest acts to follow in your small world of horror *and movie-mag publishing.

I have always considered LSoH more along the lines of serious scholarship and film history than just another magazine. I can't say that I pick up old issues of many mags, just to review, re-read or use as research. But LSoH is different. Your issues are the definitive word on certain films, and they were/are major resources for the future as well as the entertainment of the present. They are documentaries, oral histories, you-name-it. And they have unbelievable art and photography and personal access that NOBODY else gets. Sure people buy other mags, but I don't think the majority will have the longevity or the need for existing. LSoH fills a dire need. I hope it stays, expands its scope, and does not fall to prey to easy path that other mags may take... you are not a Marketing Magazine, given access to interviews to promote other people's films. Sorry to say, but that is what most mags that cover modern films do. And that is the only reason you could get a Dan Radcliffe interview anyway...to promote the movie. Unless of course your standards eventually become recognized and your opportunities to dig deeper in more modern films are not restricted by time, or studio politics. Don't become a source of publicity as a fall-back to what you have spent 40 years creating. (I don't think you ever will, but I want to remind you what you have become - in case the financial realities have diminished the significance of your latest results).

I worked my tail off with you on the last two issues, and am extremely proud of them both. I didn't make a penny, and spent more weeks and months than I care to remember. But I know that the love of the game doesn't pay the printing and shipping bills. I would suggest you do the issue YOU want to do - and charge accordingly. The quality of this magazine was superb! I would hate to see it go down....and I would gladly pay another $1 to have another issue of that high printing standard. FM is now $10, so to have twice the quality and quantity for $11 is not much to ask and all the more to expect. Ticket prices go up...and they take only 2 hours of our time (often more, sadly) - but LSoH is the gift that keeps on giving. Let it continue to give - but only as much as you want.

I'm looking forward to whatever you publish - especially stuff I am not writing. But I hope that money is not going to stop LSoH from becoming an even better magazine than it is today. You have to decide what you want to do, but remember that you are the best at what you do - and the people that count know that. We'll back you up, Dick. Just don't forget that you are doing this because you love it, and you want to excite other people who love it as well. It's a shame that people only want to read about one angle of classic horror. But you can't change that unless you keep up your enthusiasm for what YOU want to showcase. And I'd rather wait a year for a single issue of the Best that LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS can offer, pay more money, have a dynamic presentation of the high quality of artwork, stories, interviews, reviews - everything that you and your friends all love and carefully craft - than settle for anything less.

I hope other people check out the latest issue. We didn't sell out by promoting Hammer - we did it because we wanted to, and we believed in it.

All my very best,
Constantine