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Black Static
Black Static Issue 51
The March–April issue contains new novelettes and short stories by Mark Morris, Stephen Graham Jones, Gary McMahon, Caren Gussoff, Norman Prentiss, and Stephen Hargadon. The cover art is by Martin Hanford, and interior illustrations are by Vince Haig, Jim Burns, Ben Baldwin, and Richard Wagner. Features: Coffinmaker's Blues by Stephen Volk (comment); Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker (comment); Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews and an interview with Molly Tanzer); Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (DVD/Blu-ray reviews).
- GenresHorror
175 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2016
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November 13, 2016
Enjoyed Birdfather, Necropolis Beach and Spring Forward. Full Up is not my cup of tea, seems a bit silly. I got bored with Listen, Listen for some reason. Worth getting the mag for the above three stories and the Blood Spectrum reviews.
January 25, 2021
FULL UP by Mark Morris
“…facing a wide-screen TV on mute, on which a group of cartoon penguins appear to be falling from an aeroplane and hurtling towards the earth.”
A deceptively simple, eventually chilling narration of hauntings amid bereavements of time and place that can never be shaken off, across three well-characterised generations, and including a revisit by a human alive today to where she used to live much as imputed ghosts are said to do, too.
I wonder about the stand-by remote’s pause of what was frozen in real-time on the TV screen releasing itself, having been left paused too long, much like those pervasive releases of the feathered ‘objective correlative’ in the previous story?
Full up with memories – and with tears waiting to release themselves, too?
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
“…facing a wide-screen TV on mute, on which a group of cartoon penguins appear to be falling from an aeroplane and hurtling towards the earth.”
A deceptively simple, eventually chilling narration of hauntings amid bereavements of time and place that can never be shaken off, across three well-characterised generations, and including a revisit by a human alive today to where she used to live much as imputed ghosts are said to do, too.
I wonder about the stand-by remote’s pause of what was frozen in real-time on the TV screen releasing itself, having been left paused too long, much like those pervasive releases of the feathered ‘objective correlative’ in the previous story?
Full up with memories – and with tears waiting to release themselves, too?
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
September 12, 2016
Story picks: Necropolis Beach by Gary McMahon, Birdfather by Stephen Graham Jones, and Listen, Listen by Stephen Hargadon.
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