Dark Dreams

Dark Dreams was a small press publication by David Cowperthwaite and Jeffrey Dempsey.

Subtitled "Macabre and Fantasy Fiction", Dark Dreams was a literary zine devoted to horror, supernatural and weird fiction, and was published in Liverpool, England, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Issue 3 was co-edited by David Cowperthwaite with guest editor Mark Valentine (Aklo). Issues 2 and 3 were published in 1985, with issue 5 coming in 1986, issue 6 in 1987, issue 7 in 1988, issue 8 in 1990, and issue 9, the last issue, in 1992.

Contributors of fiction include Graham Andrews, Chris Barnham, Peter Bayliss, Ruskin Bond, Russell Flinn, Malcolm Furnass, Dallas Clive Goffin, Peter A. Hough, Nic Howard, Roger Johnson, Rick Kennett, A.F. Kidd (Picatrix), Joel Lane, D.F. Lewis (Nemonymous), Alan J. Lear, David Malpass, Mark Morris, Geoffrey K. Nelson, Rosemary Pardoe (Ghosts & Scholars), as 'Mary Ann Allen', Donna R. Phillips, David Rowlands, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Fantasy Macabre), Steve Sneyd (Data Dump), Derek Stanford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mark Valentine, Ron Weighell, and Conrad Williams.

Poetry was contributed by Norman Boothroyd, Ramsey Campbell, Sharon Elton, Dwight E. Humphries, Dallas Clive Goffin, Felicia Hermans, Steven Hutchinson, David Johnstone, Dave Reeder, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, William Sharp as 'Fiona Macleod', Steve Sneyd, Derek Stanford, and T. winter-damon.

Contributions of cover art work came from Dallas Clive Goffin, Jeffrey Salmon , and Alan Hunter.

Contributors of illustrations included Nicholas Blinko, Jon Bush, Dave Carson, Jim Garrison, Dallas Clive Goffin, Stella Hender, Chris Hulme, Alan Hunter, A.F. Kidd, Alfred Klosterman, Allen Koszowski, and Steve Skwarek.

David Cowperthwaite and Jeffrey Dempsey, won the British Fantasy Award for Best Small Press Publication for Dark Dreams for the year 1991.

In 1990, David Cowperthwaite released the special one issue only publication, Transactions of the Doppelganger Society.