Well the weeks, months, and frankly years of speculation about the fate of the once mighty fright rag Fangoria magazine have officially been put to bed today. While igniting somewhat of a firestorm a few days ago with our editorial (click here) questions were asked and answers have trickled out slowly. Today we here the official news and exactly what will happen to Fangoria magazine and their website...

Follow up:

Below is an e-mail that was received by the guys over at STYD from the new managing editor of Fangoria, Chris Alexander. Yes after a lengthy run of nearly 15 years as the man behind Fangoria Magazine Tony Timpone will be moving on and a new era will begin. Below is an exert from Chris,

"Tony (Timpone)'s moving out and on to bigger and better things. He'll still be within the company, when he's doing that, I can't say," Alexander told me this afternoon. "Tony has been nothing but professional, he's been doing this a long time. I'm driving the boat now and I hope I don't Titanic it. I don't think I will. I've got a different point of view, much different than what Fango has had for a while and there's going to be a lot of changes."

The transition officially happens this April when Timpone will be passing the torch in the 'Survival of the Dead' cover issue. Chris Alexander, a Toronto-based former writer of Rue Morgue Magazine (one of Fangoria's toughest competitors), was actually a free lance writer for Fangoria years ago and made his impact on the magazine's site via his Blood-Splattered Blog which gave him the freedom to talk about some of his favorite films and industry professionals.

"The bottom line is, like you, we were born with a copy of this in our hands," Alexander said. "We're in this game because we love this genre. Horror is fun. Sex, death and all of the juicy stuff. Breaking all of the taboos. It should be that way, ever since I've been reading Chas. Balun as a kid. What you'll see with me is a return to that way out there Chas. Balun point of view, to some degree. I want this to be an adventure. I want people to wear the Fangoria t-shirt and wear it with pride."

Chris Alexander also added according to STYD, managing editor Michael Gingold will still be on board the Fangoria banner and once the "internal struggles" occurring in the magazine's New York City office lift, the Fangoria.com site will be back up in some capacity.

That's it. A new era begins and it will be interesting to see the path that Chris Alexander will take the horror magazine that frankly many of us grew up with and have a passion for. Fangoria honestly will more thank likely never die as the name will always go on in some form. It's so ingrained in the horror community that the name alone is worth someone to take a chance on and carry the torch.

Is the magazine as great as it once was? I think 99% of you will agree it's not. Can it retain it's glory? Of course it can. Time will tell if it will.

Thanks for following us on this developing story and thanks to all the news sites and forums that picked this up. Also thanks to Shock for finally getting to the bottom of this.

Source:STYD