<address><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/steve-moore-sm.jpg"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-4873" style="border: 0px; margin: 8px;" alt="steve-moore-sm" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/steve-moore-sm.jpg" width="263" height="396" />
</a>[photo by Etienne Gilfillan]</address><em>'I was born at the full moon atop a crescent-shaped hill, the main mineral found (t)here being selenite, and I have a slightly rough-edged crescent birthmark on my left forearm … so I was obviously destined to be either a werewolf or a lunatic.'  </em>Steve Moore, 2011

We're deeply sad to announce that Steve Moore, author of <a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/somnium/"><em>Somnium</em></a> and a  regular contributor to <em>Strange Attractor Journal</em>, passed away over the weekend, under a beautiful Spring full Moon.

Steve was a warm, wise and gentle man, with a surreal sense of humour and an astoundingly deep knowledge that covered history, the <em>I Ching</em>, forteana, magic, oriental mysticism, martial arts cinema, science fiction, underground comics and worlds more.

Steve was amongst the earliest members of the Gang of Fort, who launched <em>Fortean Times</em> magazine in the early 1970s, and the author of a great many influential comics and short stories for publications including <em>2000AD</em>, <em>Warrior</em>, <em>Dr Who</em> magazine and, most recently, the <em>Hercules</em> series for Radical Publishing. At the time of his death he was working on a number of new projects, including his ongoing, privately published <em>Tales of Telguuth </em>and <em>The Bumper Book of Magic</em>, with his lifelong friend Alan Moore.

In 2011 Steve gave a rare interview to Aug Stone of <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/07629-steve-moore-interview-somnium">The Quietus</a>, while Alan Moore's book and album project, <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/04603-alan-moore-interview-unearthing-2"><em>Unearthing</em></a>, explored Steve's life, their friendship and their magical relationship in great detail.

Steve and Strange Attractor had recently been discussing a paperback edition of<em> Somnium</em>, as well as a collected <em>Tales of Telguuth</em>, and we hope to be able to make these available, in Steve's honour, in the near future.

<em>'Pay attention to his spectacles, refracted light turning the puzzled eyes beyond the lenses into abstract clots of pearl and white. Just change the point of view a little, move an inch or so to one side or the other and the optical illusion fails... There’s nobody there, was never anybody there except a fluctuation in the visual purple, a perceptual misunderstanding, trick of moonlight.'
</em>Alan Moore, <em>Unearthing</em>

Steve Moore 1949 - 2014

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