Black Static

[Troo]

I certainly shall, sir.

[Roy1]

I uploaded Black Static 3 cover art on the Horror page Black Static thread.

[Roy1]

See the SFFchronicles Horror thread Black Static's Dark Place

[Roy1]

Black Statics now has an E Edition and issues 1, 2 & 3 are 'up' on Fictionwise now. Download them to your Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle or any other device at a reasonable price whenever you like.

[Roy1]

Black Static 4 Out now. Royle, Williams, Goodfellow,

Issue 4 of Black Static: Transmissions From Beyond is out now, with new stories by Nicholas Royle, Conrad Williams, Cody Goodfellow and others.
As usual, cover and all original art is by David Gentry.

New Original Horror Fiction:
Cleaning the Western Kittiwake by Tyler Keevil

Atwater by Cody Goodfellow

Zombie by Conrad Williams

Salt by Nicholas Royle

Ye Shall Eat in Haste by Steve Nagy

This Much I Remember by Barry Fishler

Non Fiction:
White Noise (news compiled by Peter Tennant)
Electric Darkness by Stephen Volk
Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD reviews and competitions)
Case Notes by Peter Tennant (an interview with Conrad Williams plus book reviews, sidebars, factoids and featurettes)
Japan’s Dark Lanterns by John Paul Catton
Night’s Plutonian Shore by Mike O’Driscoll
Black Static is published bimonthly. Subscribe now!

[Roy1]

This, fifth, issue, due out 11 June, has a thread of H P Lovecraft in its veins.
Last year was the 70th anniversary of Lovecraft's death (15/3/1937) hence Christopher M. Cevasco's Lovecraftian tale of HPL on his deathbed in "Less A Dream Than This We Know" and a review of "The Necronomicon; The Best Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft".

The issue also has 'Slap' from Gary McMahon, whose novel 'Rain Dogs', due out from Humdrumming Books, is reviewed by Pete Tennant.

Pete Tennant interviews Bram Stoker Award winner Jack Ketchum who is celebrated for his horror fiction and thillers in the US, perhaps less so in the UK.

Zombies, Ghosts?, HPL, Jack Ketchum and Joel Lane don't miss Black Static 5

[Roy1]

and a review

[Roy1]

Cover (by David Gentry) and contents for Black Static 6
Let us know what you think.

Fiction
The Better Part of You by Simon Avery
Back on the Road by Melanie Fazi
Special Needs by Peter Tennant
En Saga by Nina Allan
All Mouth by Paul Meloy
Viva Las Vegas by Ray Cluley

Non Fiction
Comment & columns from Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler and Mike O'Driscoll.
Case Notes, 12 pages of book reviews by Peter Tennant including Scott Sigler featurette and interview; a look at Chris Fowler's Bryant & May novels; and much more.
DVD reviews by Blood Spectrum's Tony Lee and the opportunity for subscribers to win several DVDs.

[ctg]

It's a happy fish, maybe even a alien fish. The font is disappearing to the back ground, so if I would be searching for this particular magazine, I would miss it.

[Troo]

Fish?

It's an upside-down severed doll's head leaking blood. Where's the fish?

[Ursa major]

Warning to ctg: never take a Rorschach inkblot test.

[Troo]

I think that's wise advice there.

[Roy1]

CTG you can't buy Black Static retail other than in specialists like Transreal or Murder One - or online. We want readers to subscribe hence we don't need to worry about the fading masthead.

Design prevails when there are no retail sales.

[ctg]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

Warning to ctg: never take a Rorschach inkblot test.

I used to be a trouble child, so my folks put me to see a shrink. This shrink made an error as he asked me to draw something for him. So I draw him a perfect line and that's it. The shrink wasn't happy.

But yea, since now you mentioned that it's a doll head, I can see it, but this morning when I woke up after last night session (cooked bbq for 16 people and then I did all the dishes and cleaning afterwards) I couldn't see the head, but a fish ... a weird happy fish.

[Troo]

Were there any, er, special ingredients in the food?