Monthly Archives: February 2011
“The Empty Spaces” by Alison J. Littlewood
This story in Black Static #16 marked the second appearance in the magazine of Alison J. Littlewood, and with another title showing in the ‘Story Acceptances’ column at the publisher’s website it won’t be long before we get to see … Continue reading
Broken News
Not breaking, but broken. I don’t blog on a Sunday – not a religious thing, but a matter of needing at least one day of the week when I don’t spend nearly all my time seated in front of the … Continue reading
Thought for the Weekend #5
This week saw the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery, which curiously enough put me in mind of a book I read a long, long time ago, a non-fiction work by Arthur C. Clarke detailing the making of the … Continue reading
“Survivor’s Guilt” by Rosanne Rabinowitz
We started the week with a zombie story and so we should end it with a vampire one, and it’s also appropriate in that author Rosanne Rabinowitz is guest blogging over on Case Notes today – she’s writing about Arthur … Continue reading
“Back On the Road” by Melanie Fazi
French writer Melanie Fazi has had a couple of stories in Black Static and I believe I’ve seen something by her in one of the Year’s Best anthologies, but other than that I’m unfamiliar with her work. This story appeared … Continue reading
Sunday was Z-Day
On Sunday I read Harry Shannon’s zombie novella Pain and Suzanne Palmer’s short story “Zombie Cabana Boy”, and then as the sun fell below the horizon I battened down the hatches, helped myself to a substantial pizza and settled down … Continue reading
“Zombie Cabana Boy” by Suzanne Palmer
Sunday was Z-Day round Chez Tennant, about which more later. In the circumstances there was only one story I could read as part of my ongoing appreciation of work by female contributors to Black Static for Women in Horror Recognition … Continue reading
Thought for the Weekend #4
The phrase ‘torture porn’ has been used as a label of convenience for the recent spate of films which for many commentators seem to have little point beyond inflicting violent, prolonged death on their protagonists. Of course elaborately contrived and … Continue reading
“Vic” by Maura McHugh
Black Static #21 is now mailing out to subscribers, and it contains a new story by Maura McHugh, “Water”, and so it seems appropriate to discuss Maura’s story “Vic” which appeared back in #10 and was picked up by editor … Continue reading
