The third and final book in the trilogy of volumes dedicated to Grim Humour fanzine, which ran between 1983 and 1993 and lasted a total of eighteen editions. Following on from the first two, published respectively in 2020 and 2022, this book continues the same approach through its mixing reprinted original pages with rewritten features, some insightful reflections on many of them and additional material by both editor/publisher Richard Johnson and various other contributors. Writers involved with the ‘zine during this final period included Alan Rider (Adventures in Reality/Dance Naked), Stefan Jaworzyn, Gerald Houghton, Mark Stevens, Andrea Johnson, Andrew Clare (I’m Being Good), Ian of Meantime Records, Jonathan Davies, Paul Harrison, John Everall, JR Bruun, Rick Baylor and many others.

With over 350 A4 pages, this softcover book is similar to the second book in its bigger than the first volume simply because the original fanzines themselves had generally high page counts. Features include Tad, Bitch Magnet, Skullflower, Hotalacio, Clive Barker’s Hell on Earth, JFK, horror movies, Fire Party, Political Asylum, Richard Kern, Tom Vague, John Waters, Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising, Lydia Lunch, Cindytalk, Pigface, Ramleh, Front Line Assembly, Controlled Bleeding, The God Machine, Nick Zedd, Casandra Stark, Peter Greenaway, Jon Savage, Cop Shoot Cop, Daniel P. Mannix, Derek Jarman, Nick Bougas Rake, Con Demek, a Whitehouse discography and, as the magazines themselves each proclaimed, hundreds of music, book, comic and film reviews.

Everything once again adds up to a massive document of how things were for those concerned as the 1990s began to unfold if still interested in where the ripples of post-punk and post-industrial music were continuing to permeate. The interest in certain film directors, horror fare, writers and so on likewise became more and more pronounced during this period, too. Coupled to a semi-professional way of presenting the material, it could be argued that Grim Humour had developed beyond the more amateurish nature of the early issues, but the sensibilities remained broadly the same. While it could perhaps quite comfortably nestle alongside US titles such as Your Flesh, Chemical Imbalance, Forced Exposure at the time, the ‘zine still owed much to the inspiration found in Tone Death, Vague, KYPP, Panache and so on besides contemporary horror ‘zines.