Paranoia (magazine)

Paranoia Magazine Issue #1

Since 1992, Paranoia: The Conspiracy & Paranormal Reader has presented alternative views and marginalized theories of the inner workings of the cryptocracy. Subjects include conspiracy theories, parapolitics, alternative history, and the paranormal.

Paranoia was founded during the zine explosion of the early 1990s. The first issue had a black-and-white tabloid-style layout, with feature stories starting on the cover and continuing inside. Over the years, Paranoia evolved into a 72-page print magazine published three times a year, with a print run that reached 15,000 copies. It was sold on newsstands throughout the U.S., the U.K, and Canada, as well as to subscribers.

Paranoia received a 2001 Award of Merit in the Writer's Digest Zine Publishing Awards, and has been rated by Playboy magazine as a "Top 10 Zine." Pagan Kennedy of The Village Voice called it "Weirdness on a grand scale ..." containing "a dizzying web of connections." Alternative book publisher New Paradigm Books recently stated that Paranoia is "an original and provocative thrice-yearly magazine, with an occasional compelling focus on women writers."

In late 2009, Paranoia ended its nearly 20-year run as a print magazine and switched to a book format, to be published as announced. April 2010 saw the publication of PARANOIA: The Conspiracy Reader, Vol. 1, a trade paperback distributed to bookstores by Ingram and available to individuals on Amazon. The book series continues to be edited by Al Hidell and Joan d'Arc.

Bibliography

• PARANOIA: The Conspiracy Reader, Vol. 1 edited by Joan d'Arc and Al Hidell (Paranoia Publishing, 2010, trade paperback, ISBN 978-0-615-29995-2)
• The New Conspiracy Reader: From Planet X to the War on Terrorism--What You Really Don't Know edited by Al Hidell and Joan d'Arc (Citadel, 2004, trade paperback, ISBN 0-8065-2542-8)
• The Conspiracy Reader: From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to Government-Sponsored Alien Cover-Ups edited by Al Hidell and Joan d'Arc (Citadel, 2000, trade paperback, ISBN 0-8065-2041-8)
• HunterGatheress Journal

External links

• Paranoia official site