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Filler content with blood rain

Posted on February 15, 2013 by petertennant

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 →

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Filler content with God and zombies

Posted on October 26, 2012 by petertennant

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 →

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Filler content with old knowledge

Posted on August 7, 2012 by petertennant

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 →

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“The Harvesting of Jackson Cade” by Robert Davies

Posted on February 27, 2012 by petertennant

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 →

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“A Summer’s Day” by K. Harding Stalter

Posted on February 9, 2012 by petertennant

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 →

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Pete’s Picks for 2011 – Part Two

Posted on January 21, 2012 by petertennant

I’m cross posting this with the Case Notes blog where it will pop up on the 23rd, so those of you who read my personal blog will get a chance to be indifferent about the books I especially liked in … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Picks for 2011 – Part One

Posted on January 12, 2012 by petertennant

I’m cross-posting this from the Case Notes blog at TTA, as that way I get to have a blog post without doing any work:- Okay, it’s that time of the year when I get to hand out a few bouquets … Continue reading →

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“At Night, When the Demons Come” by Ray Cluley

Posted on December 30, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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“Extraneus Invokat” by Ed Grabianowski

Posted on December 27, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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“Black Feathers” by Alison J. Littlewood

Posted on December 15, 2011 by petertennant

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 →

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