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Black Static Issue 64
The July-August issue contains new horror fiction by Simon Avery, Phoenix Alexander, Seán Padraic Birnie, Tim Cooke, Sam Thompson, and Jack Westlake. The cover art is by Martin Hanford, and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner. Regular features include Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore, Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker, Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews), Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews).
Cover Art: Another Ghost by Martin Hanford
Fiction:
Something to Burn by Phoenix Alexander
Out of the Blue by Seán Padraic Birnie
illustrated by Richard Wagner
The Asylum by Tim Cooke
The Monstrosity in Love by Sam Thompson
The Blockage by Jack Westlake
Why We Don't Go Back by Simon Avery
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Columns:
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
THREE FROM TELOS
Small Ghosts by Paul Lewis, Terror Tales of Cornwall edited by Paul Finch, Kat of Green Tentacles by Sam Stone
TWO FROM CEMETERY DANCE
Walking Alone: Short Stories by Bentley Little, The Ones Who Are Waving by Glen Hirshberg
NEW WINE IN OLD SKIN
New Fears edited by Mark Morris
NICK AND THE NIGHTJARS
Ornithology by Nicholas Royle, Bremen + The Unwish by Claire Dean, The Hook by Florence Sunnen, Living Together by Matt Thomas
DOUBLE ACTS
The Girl With the Peacock Harp + Tree Spirit & Other Strange Tales by Michael Eisele, Fragile Dreams + Behold the Void by Philip Fracassi, I Wish I Was Like You + Strange is the Night by S.P. Miskowski
THREE NOVELLAS
Little Ghosts by Mary Borsellino, Never Now Always by Desirina Boskovich, Perfect Darkness, Perfect Silence by Richard Farren Barber
Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens
The Old Dark House, Frankenstein the First, The Addiction, Filmworker, You Were Never Really Here, The Quiet Earth, Cargo, The rain, Mayhem, The Cured, The Lodgers, Xtro, The Endless, Rawhead Rex, Insidious: The Last Key, It Came From the Desert, Habit
Cover Art: Another Ghost by Martin Hanford
Fiction:
Something to Burn by Phoenix Alexander
Out of the Blue by Seán Padraic Birnie
illustrated by Richard Wagner
The Asylum by Tim Cooke
The Monstrosity in Love by Sam Thompson
The Blockage by Jack Westlake
Why We Don't Go Back by Simon Avery
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Columns:
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
THREE FROM TELOS
Small Ghosts by Paul Lewis, Terror Tales of Cornwall edited by Paul Finch, Kat of Green Tentacles by Sam Stone
TWO FROM CEMETERY DANCE
Walking Alone: Short Stories by Bentley Little, The Ones Who Are Waving by Glen Hirshberg
NEW WINE IN OLD SKIN
New Fears edited by Mark Morris
NICK AND THE NIGHTJARS
Ornithology by Nicholas Royle, Bremen + The Unwish by Claire Dean, The Hook by Florence Sunnen, Living Together by Matt Thomas
DOUBLE ACTS
The Girl With the Peacock Harp + Tree Spirit & Other Strange Tales by Michael Eisele, Fragile Dreams + Behold the Void by Philip Fracassi, I Wish I Was Like You + Strange is the Night by S.P. Miskowski
THREE NOVELLAS
Little Ghosts by Mary Borsellino, Never Now Always by Desirina Boskovich, Perfect Darkness, Perfect Silence by Richard Farren Barber
Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens
The Old Dark House, Frankenstein the First, The Addiction, Filmworker, You Were Never Really Here, The Quiet Earth, Cargo, The rain, Mayhem, The Cured, The Lodgers, Xtro, The Endless, Rawhead Rex, Insidious: The Last Key, It Came From the Desert, Habit
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First published July 1, 2018
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October 9, 2020
If you want to read a quality horror fiction magazine, you can't go wrong with Black Static. This used to be a staple for me that I would check the magazine section at Barnes and Noble for on a regular basis. But, I'm come to learn that less is more. When I read this all the time, I didn't appreciate it as much. Too often, stories that fall into the literary horror category tend to have vague or incomplete endings, which I can appreciate but do not want a steady diet of.
Here are the stories that worked for me this issue:
"Out Of The Blue" by Sean Padraic Birnie was suspenseful and mysterious. A newly-married man's recently deceased father shows up at his door in the suit he was buried in. He responds to requests to walk and sit, but does not speak and ends up blending in like a piece of furniture. The story doesn't end so much as stop at a turning point, which leaves too much unanswered.
"The Blockage" is an outstanding piece of building terror as a young woman moves into a new apartment and loses her cat immediately. Main character (and readers as well) become suspicious as to what exactly happened, especially when a lurking neighbor continues to offer assistance and asks strange questions.
My favorite this issue is "Why We Don't Go Back" by Simon Avery, a longer piece about an abused single mom and a friendly male neighbor traveling with her young daughter to a remote village where her uncle is a local priest and offers them sanctuary and a chance to start anew. The village is creepy. The locals have secrets and a weird way of practicing religion.
Here are the stories that worked for me this issue:
"Out Of The Blue" by Sean Padraic Birnie was suspenseful and mysterious. A newly-married man's recently deceased father shows up at his door in the suit he was buried in. He responds to requests to walk and sit, but does not speak and ends up blending in like a piece of furniture. The story doesn't end so much as stop at a turning point, which leaves too much unanswered.
"The Blockage" is an outstanding piece of building terror as a young woman moves into a new apartment and loses her cat immediately. Main character (and readers as well) become suspicious as to what exactly happened, especially when a lurking neighbor continues to offer assistance and asks strange questions.
My favorite this issue is "Why We Don't Go Back" by Simon Avery, a longer piece about an abused single mom and a friendly male neighbor traveling with her young daughter to a remote village where her uncle is a local priest and offers them sanctuary and a chance to start anew. The village is creepy. The locals have secrets and a weird way of practicing religion.
January 27, 2021
Like a mucky calving (in or out). I half-barfed when reading this rather classy Pan Horror.
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Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
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