''Postscripts'' was a quarterly British

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, horror, and

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, first published in June 2004.PS Publishing - PostScripts Magazine
, page retrieved 19 November 2006. It was published by

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was

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. Each issue was published in two editions: a regular newsstand-type edition and a signed, numbered, 200-copy (150 copies until issue 14) hardcover edition. From issue 18, the magazine was transformed briefly to a quarterly

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, before becoming biannual, producing two double-sized issues a year starting with issue 20/21. The final issue was ''The Dragons of the Night'' #36/37, published in May 2016.

Awards

''Postscripts'' has won the 2006 and 2008 International Horror Guild awards for best periodical and the 2009

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for Best Magazine. Notable award-winning stories include Joe Hill's ''Best New Horror'', which won the

for Best Short Fiction in 2006. ''In the Porches of My Ears'' by Norman Prentiss won the 2009

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for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction.

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