Crystal Reflections

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Zine
Title: Crystal Reflections
Publisher:
Editor(s): Carol Kyne & Betty Neiswender
Date(s): 1990
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Medium: print
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Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Language: English
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cover by Lynette Combs

Crystal Reflections is a 201-page Beauty and the Beast (TV) Classic/Continued Classic/SND anthology.

flyer, note the plans for another issue, describing three stories that don't appear to have been printed elsewhere later

The art is by Anna Deavers, Lynette Combs, Barbara Gipson, Sharon Reynolds, Lisa Stubblefield, and Dragon.

It is a collection of 10 stories, artwork and some poetry. Characters from the 1st and 2nd seasons - Mitch Denton, Kanin and Jonathan Smythe - are featured. There is also a SND story, Thresholds," in which Diana appears as a friend.

Contents

  • A Different Drum by Betty Neiswender, researched and co-written by Linda Locke ("Mouse stumbles on an Indian burial ground.") (1)
  • Dreams, poem by Betty Neiswender (16)
  • Tests by Darrilyn Malone (17)
  • Siren Song, poem by Diana West (23)
  • A Child of the Moon by Michael Cole (24)
  • The Dream Weaver by Ursula Boyle ("A strange old woman gives Vincent a chance to live the dream Catherine once had of him.") (56)
  • The Hope of Dreams, poem by Ursula Boyle (60)
  • Fire and Ice by Betty Neiswender ("Jonathan Smythe, of Bluebird fame, involves Catherine and Vincent in blazing adventure.") (61)
  • A Time for Everything by Loretta Bryce ("Kanin winds up in the same prison as Mitch Denton, and stumbles on a deadly plot.") (93)
  • "This is the creature," poem by R.M. Rilke (124)
  • To Cross the Rubicon by Carol Kyne (125)
  • Silent Witness by Betty Nieswender ("An antique doll sends Catherine and Vincent on an odd search for evidence.") (139)
  • Thresholds by Betty Neiswender ("Could Catherine have survived Gabriel's deadly machinations? Vincent is having strange dreams.") (153)

Sample Interior

Reactions and Reviews

Classic/Continued Classic/SND zine. Strongest stories are two by Neiswender: “Fire and Ice,” in which, after Vincent is injured during the rescue of a troubled family, Catherine nurses him back to health; and “Thresholds,” a standard but competent SND (Catherine survives, amnesiac, eventually remembers Vincent) in which Diana appears briefly. [1]

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