KATHY RESCH

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

FANZINES

All issues include full color covers and lavish interior artwork

by Janet Meehan. 

 

ZINES ARE GEN/MILD HET.

 

MASK: TALES FROM THE UNDERGROUND # VIII

Features: A TRUTH BEYOND KNOWLEDGE ‑ a novel by Sandra Necchi

This intense, edge‑of‑the‑seat novel explains all the many mysteries left dangling by 3rd Season.  Vincent and Catherine mount the rescue for their son, and find healing and fulfillment in their love.  Joe Maxwell, Elliot Burch, and Diana Bennett play major roles in the investigation and rescue.  Involves all the familiar Tunnel characters ‑ Father, Mouse, Jamie, Mary, plus Peter Alcott. 

 

PLUS ‑ enter J.P. Burrough's universe, where Catherine and Vincent live their happy life Below, with their beloved son Jacob. Far from being cut off from the affairs of the world Above, Catherine and Vincent find many opportunities, through their love, idealism and courage, to continue their work of helping others. They encounter old friends and make new ones in the following stories: 

BLINDSPOT ‑ a sequel to the popular "Mouse's Great Adventure" from MASK IV.  Mouse and Lisa continue their romantic adventures.... 

THE FORGOTTEN HERO ‑ Father has a chance to rescue a childhood hero ‑ a swashbuckling silent movie star who has fallen on hard times... 

VENDETTA ‑ An enemy of Father's from the McCarthy era returns for revenge... 

VICTIM BY PROXY ‑ Catherine and Vincent are in danger from the daughter of a man Catherine brought to justice.  All stories are Classic or "SND" 

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MASK: TALES FROM THE UNDERGROUND # VI

Includes: THE FOUNDLING by Stephanie Davis. (Vincent finds an abandoned baby, and is filled with reflections on the joys and pain of fatherhood.);

FORTUNES by Guinn Berger - (One night at college, Jenny Aronson read the tea leaves for Catherine, predicting Catherine would meet a very special man... one who would love her more than life itself.  When she meets Stephen Bass, she feels the dream is coming true...).

PLUS ‑ enter J.P. Burrough's universe, where Catherine and Vincent live their happy life Below, with their beloved son Jacob. They encounter old friends and make new ones in the following stories:

In SPECTRE IN OILS Kristopher Gentian leaves them a mysterious painting foretelling an impending murder...

In HIDDEN FACES Bridget O'Donnell returns, and Joe Maxwell finds romance with a tunnel‑dweller... In L IS FOR LISA (a sequel to "Mouse's Great Adventure" from Mask IV) Mouse's girlfriend comes to New York for important surgery, but a drug deal gone bad threatens the doctor who can perform the operation...

In STUBB'S LAW Isaac Stubbs returns, and only Catherine and Vincent can save his daughter's life...  And in THE RENEWAL, a sequel to "A Fair and Perfect Knight", Catherine encounters Michael Richmond, now a teacher facing a crisis of belief in the value of helping others. Art by Pam Tuck. All stories are Classic or "SND"

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Mask: Tales From The Underground IV:

An opera singer leaves Vincent and Catherine an unusual legacy... Catherine, suffering from amnesia, wakes up to find herself in an isolated farmhouse, living a life not her own ‑ while Below, Vincent mourns his lost love... Mouse, chased by a gang, takes refuge inside a truck ‑ and wakes up on his way to Indiana... A "Quantum Leap" crossover, with Sam leaping in to the body of the doctor destined to murder Catherine... Much more!  Authors include Joan Enright, Claudia Bertrand, Toni Lichtenstein Bogolub, Betty Mills, Teri Sarick and Sue Ann Sarick. Art by Pam Tuck. All "Classic"! 

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Mask: Tales From The Underground III:

Narcissa grants Vincent and Catherine a vision of a life they shared in Elizabethan England... Catherine, depressed with memories of her parents during the holiday season, decides she needs solitude, not company...  Catherine, now living in the world Below with Vincent and baby Jacob, plans a special treat for Father...  A 3rd Season story in which a visit from an angel grants Vincent a view of Jacob's future...  Authors include Marie Bidlack, Joan Enright, Teri Janka, Carol Kyne, Kathie Ono. Poetry by Cat, Kathleen Hall, Jeffrey Koehn, and Teri Sarick. "All Season" issue.

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 $23.00 Canada; $28.00 Europe; $29.00 Pacific.

 

 

Mask: Tales From The Underground I

(Our only Combined Universe Issue)

2/3 Classic “Beauty and the Beast”, 1/3 "Phantom of the Opera".  Catherine, exhausted from her caseload, waits for Vincent in his chamber ‑ when he finds her, their lives change forever... A young Vincent explores Central Park with Devin - and speaks to a young Catherine, playing Joan of Arc in a school play... Catherine, at Radcliffe, tries to reconcile the cold logic of pre‑law with her yearning for magic...   A young Erik, the "Phantom", encounters a blind man... Meg Giry meets the Opera Ghost long after his supposed death...  Authors include Joan Enright, Susan Garrett & Rose.

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