In the beginning an idea for a fun, fresh, funky, cool, edgy & sexy paranormal magazine was created. An empty page, started from scratch, darkness; but ideas were hovering.
And the editor-to-be said, “Let there be a funky and different front cover,” and there was. every issue. The editor-to-be saw a draft copy of the front cover, and saw that the front cover was good. He called the magazine "Haunted", and then it was evening, the first day was over.
And the editor-to-be said, “Let there be fun, fresh new features that are spooky and scary but are as entertaining as they are informative". So there was fun, fresh features, like “Where are they Buried?”, searching out the final resting places of our dearly departed celebrities, and “Dead Funny”, taking a lighter humorous look at the paranormal. He called these "regular features, the backbone of Haunted, and then it was evening, the second day was over.
And the editor-to-be said "let's look at all aspects of the paranormal sector, the dark side, the spiritual side, the entertainment side, the scary side and other sides and faces that the paranormal industry throws up from time to time". He started work on Haunted, the pilot issue, calling it Issue #0, and he stepped back and saw that it was good. Then the editor-to-be said “Lets produce the the best paranormal magazine out there, not just in written word, but in design too, both needing each other. A magazine was forming, features like “The Paranormal Observer”, and “Paranormal TV Flashback” were born, and the editor saw that is was good. And then it was evening, the third day was over.
And the editor-to-be was no longer an editor-to-be, he was just the editor, plain and simple, a sign for the future, for many days and years to follow. And so it went to print, nothing more could be done, this was it. Haunted was born, he waited for three days, the fourth day, the fifth day and the sixth day, until finally, on the seventh day it came back from the printers.
AND SO IT CAME TO BE THAT ON OCTOBER 1ST 2009, A new and different type of paranormal magazine rose from the ground. It was called HAUNTED .... and it still is!!
For over two years HAUNTED ruled the world, well WHSmiths and a few other shops, eleven issues were printed and then with rising print and distribution costs it was getting harder to fund AND then the Devil appeared in the form of a rival magazine thinly guised as a dodgy export order, completely shafting the magazine and the print dream was over...
BUT, rising from the ashes, the dust, the dirt came HAUNTED DIGITAL MAGAZINE, the freshest UK Paranormal/Horror digital magazine, available worldwide with no postage costs.. 13TH APRIL 2012 was the day that HAUNTED came back.
And sales were good, support was good, it was being read online BUT we wanted more people to read it, we wanted to spread the paranormal world SO we bit the bullet and decided to make Haunted Digital Magazine FREE anywhere and everywhere, AppStore, GooglePlay, free magazine platform Issuu, people could read it online, download it and it wouldn’t cost them a penny... so in October 2014, Haunted Digital Magazine became a free magazine online.
AND it worked, over 100,000 reads / downloads per issue, the paranormal word was being spread, more and more people were becoming aware of Haunted Magazine. People were saying “be great to see it in print”, “this would be great to read as a proper print magazine” and we agreed but it needed to be done properly and thought out.
In 2016, we bit the bullet and decided to print a small limited edition print run of Haunted Magazine issue 15 to run parallel with the free digital magazine version. 500 copies ONLY, once they were gone, they were gone. AND SO WE DID!
April 2016 - Haunted Magazine was BACK IN PRINT, 4 and a half years after the last print version AND it proved very popular, so much so that people.... issues 15-20 are now available to purchase in a limited edition print format (not many left) AND, as we promised, the free version is still available online...
2018... The Journey continues
2019... #10YearsOfHauntedMagazine - what a paranormal party it is going to be...
