Issue number four of this fantastic obscure 90's era underground / transgressive culture zine run by the great Jasmine Sailing, who made one hell of a mark on 1990s underground publishing with her great catalog of freaky chapbook titles. This love of edgy, often horrifying dark literature always came through in her zine Cyber-Psychos as well, with original fiction sharing the page with bizarre cyberpunk ruminations, extreme music coverage, and general journalistic coverage of the mutant underbelly of the decade. Flipping through this sixty-page 1993 issue, Jasmine Sailing goes long form for her regular "Editorial Babble" section, and then sinks its teeth into you with a cavalcade of weirdness: the cyberpunk flash fiction of Kurt Newton's "On The Anniversary Of The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy; Bruce Young sits down for a lengthy Q&A with noise legend G.X. Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters) to discuss his then-new novel, experimental writing techniques, the history of The Haters, performance art, and other confrontational creative endeavors; and Michael Moynihan (Lords Of Chaos) talks with Pete Steele on Type O Negative, and things get testy as expected. Christie Sohnholz interviews obscure experimental UK rock band Sofahead; some of the questions here are flat out outrageous.

There are short profiles on self-released industrial duos Contingence and Gibraltur, and Mansonite folk weirdoes Scramblehead; a new CyberCents column that delves specifically on how to employ your own sonic warfare using household electronics; one of T. Winter-Damon's utterly bizarre Videodrome-themed splatterpunk prose-poem essays titled "The Signal Spreads", accompanied by a deep dive interview from Sailing on Winter-Damon and his brand of nightmare surrealism. Hardcore horror / splatterpunk icon Edward Lee offers some of his crazed gorecore storytelling with "The Wrong Guy" (the artwork that accompanies this tale is fucked up beyond all decency), and another Colorado-underground profile, here focused on the transgressive / erotic dark fiction of Lucy Taylor. More lunatic horror fiction via "Closed Casket" by Jeffrey A. Stadt, and S. Darnbrook Colson delivers some commentary on sourcing ideas for hardcore horror with "The Bad Boy's View of The World And Himself". There's some more of that awesomely crude psychedelic-horror art strewn through the issue, a recurring thing with the whole publication that I really dig. D.F. Lewis delivers some more of his lauded "Modern Weird" fiction with the short story "Clockhouse Mount", and the "Two-Headed TV Casualty" column debuts with its rundown of horror / cult cinema old and new. Psychedelic multi-media sorceress Chris Yardley gets a multi-page profile, and there's an offbeat "erotic vignette" by Jacie Marsh. Then Y. Von Faust's "Look At That Fag" nails you with some button-pushing non-fiction lit, and then it's over the cliff into the ever-expanding reviews section; I've mentioned elsewhere, but if you are interested in hunting down and exploring the more obscure ends of counterculture / extreme art, music and writing, reviews sections like these are indispensable. Here in issue #4 you get a whole page of wild book-reviews written by T. Winter-Damon that range from profane cyberpunk fiction to deep-underground experimental 90's poetry and outré horror...gah! From there it's pages of album reviews of stuff as far-ranging as Fear Factory, Shriekback and Minor Threat; live show reviews of the most esoteric underground bands; hefty capsule reviews of books and mags from Jeff Gelb's Shock Rock horror antho to punk lit mags like Pirate Writings and Bizarre Bazaar and obscure subterranean comic books. Some more demented comics from N.TRO.P and company round things out, along with the latest continuation of Brian Cooper's streetpunk saga Nymph.

It's seriously as if someone beamed all of my favorite things right into my pituary gland. This zine rules.