 Author G. Connor Salter reached out to Zeena for this in-depth interview which extrapolates on the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of her father's choice to name her after the mystical fortune teller character, Madame Zeena, from the novel Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham. In the interview, Zeena covers her father's claims to have personally known Gresham, details about his early life history, his brushes with occult and esoteric groups in the '50s and other Noir influences on his early development, which in turn influenced Zeena's early development, making this a richly detailed and insightful exploration into the mind. The article also features photos of two vintage paperback editions of Nightmare Alley and a movie poster for the 1947 film, which lived in the kitchen of the Black House (Zeena's childhood home), from Zeena's personal archives. G. Connor Salter is known for his exhaustive research in and written contributions to scholarly studies of the 1930s-40s literary group The Inklings and by extension CS Lewis's wife Joy Davidman's first husband, Noir author William Gresham. Salter is currently working on the unpublished writings of Gresham to which this interview is a small portion of a larger project. Read the full interview here: punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/a-conversation-with-zeena-schreck-about-nightmare-alley-by-g-connor-salter/ [Posted by T.M. 24/05/24]
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Signed and numbered print edition 2012 Vice Magazine 'The Showbiz' Issue, Volume 19 Number 4 Zeena's in-depth interview by Annette Lamoth-Ramos featured in this issue was the first after many years hiatus from mainstream media spanning her early life until the early '00s. After much interest and feedback generated from this interview, VICE invited Zeena to write her own column, 'From the Eye of the Storm' . In February 2024, VICE media announced they are stopping both the online and print magazines. BUT we have unearthed a limited number of print copies - 10 in English and 13 in German - all in original (not pre-owned) condition. Signed and numbered on the lead photo by Zeena, there's also an option to have it personalized on the TO ORDER PAGE.  The Showbiz issue also features 'The Sordid Secrets of Babylon,' an interview with Zeena's godfather, Kenneth Anger (February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023), who passed away exactly one year ago. [Scroll down to table of contents to see other articles in this issue.]  Condition: Original, Mint to Very Good. Excellent binding, pages are unmarked and clean. Binding: Softcover High quality six-color printing on all pages, glossy cover. 114 pages. 8½”x11” / 21½cm x 28cm. The only differences between the English and German versions are: The English edition originally came with a paper wraparound advertisement on the cover for the action-adventure game Dishonored (see image). To offer collectors this item exactly as it was when it hit the stands twelve years ago, we're leaving it on. The German edition doesn't have any advertising on the cover but features a short write-up about photographer Florian Büttner, who did the photo shoot with Zeena and who gives his impressions of that experience. (See image below for the original German text, English translation follows.) This is photographer profile is only in the German edition and not included in any of the other VICE language editions of the same issue.  Text translates to: “Florian took pictures for us of Zeena Schreck, the apostate daughter of Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey. In Satanist circles, just mentioning her name leads to premature ejaculation. She is a kind of devilish demigoddess who probably desecrated hosts for the first time as a four year old and, at least until she broke away from her father, was on a first-name basis with Belial. Florian met her in a fairy-tale forest at Lake Grunewald and told us that it was quite a dichotomous experience, as on the one hand she looked like the evil stepmother from Cinderella with her baroque dress and stern appearance, yet on the other hand she spoke like the Buddha.”   [Posted by T.M. 10/05/24]
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