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Filler content with blood rain
Your lackadaisical blogger continues his low maintenance activity with another old review, this time one from the pages of Black Static #29, though there is every chance it may have been edited and/or slightly amended when it appeared in situ, … Continue reading
Filler content with God and zombies
NewCon Press have just released Andrew Hook’s novella And God Created Zombies in electronic format, and that seems like reasonable justification to reproduce my review here. So that’s what I’ll do. My review then, just as it appeared in Black … Continue reading
Filler content with old knowledge
Once again the tempus has fugit, and so a review from the back catalogue to bridge that gap. This one originally appeared in Black Static #21 back in 2011, and the book had sold out before it did, suggesting either … Continue reading
“The Harvesting of Jackson Cade” by Robert Davies
This story from Black Static #23 was the first appearance in the magazine of American writer Robert Davies, who was previously published in Interzone back in 2006. The story was the winner of a competition Black Static ran in conjunction … Continue reading
“A Summer’s Day” by K. Harding Stalter
This brief story from Black Static #24 marked the fiction debut of American writer K. Harding Stalter. The opening line pretty much lays out the agenda – ‘I have named each of the doctor’s instruments’ – implying both that the first … Continue reading
“At Night, When the Demons Come” by Ray Cluley
Published in Black Static #20, this story was selected by Ellen Datlow for The Best Horror of the Year Volume Three. Ray Cluley‘s third story in the magazine, it is somewhat more plot driven and in your face than the … Continue reading
“Extraneus Invokat” by Ed Grabianowski
This short, sharp shocker from Black Static #21 was Ed Grabianowski’s first published fiction. The unnamed male narrator and his partner Laura are on the brink of moving to a larger apartment ‘after two years in the same tiny space’, … Continue reading
“Black Feathers” by Alison J. Littlewood
This piece from Black Static #22 was Alison Littlewood‘s third appearance in the magazine, and she’s since gone on to greater things, with a novel titled A Cold Season due out from Quercus imprint Jo Fletcher Books in January 2012. (In … Continue reading
