Kinkay Fandom

Kinkay Fandom was a group which developed around Mary Reed's UK fanzine Crabapple in the late 1960s. It included Dave Baldock, Arthur Cruttenden, Archie Mercer, Beryl Mercer, Mary Reed, and others.

Archie Mercer described them in a letter published in Then #2 (March 1989):

Probably the oddest sub group was what became vaguely known as Kinkay Fandom. This consisted of youngsters of both sexes – late teens and early twenties – whose principal literary interest was weird/horror fiction. Some of them tended to lead rather weird/horror type lifestyles too. But they all admired Mary Reed (now long, and long-domiciled Statesside) who was something of a focal point herself. And since she was a close friend of Beryl's this made us, improbably, persona grata with Kinkay Fandom. We still keep in touch with Mary, incidentally. We stopped being a focal point in fandom with our move to Cornwall in 1970."

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Club

1960s—1970s

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