Black Static Issue 52

by Andy Cox (Editor), Ben Baldwin (Illustrator), Stephen Volk

Spring brings the May–June issue, #52, and Carole Johnstone's 17,000-word novelette 'Wetwork', which inspired Ben Baldwin’s cover and interior art. Damien Angelica Walters, Robert Levy, Michelle Ann King, and Ralph Robert Moore supply more stories with interior illustrations by Dave Senecal, Warwick Fraser-Coombe, and Joachim Luetke.
Comment- Stephen Volk and Lynda E. Rucker; book reviews- Peter Tennant (Paul Meloy interviewed); Blood Spectrum- Gary Couzens (media reviews)


Fiction this issue
Wetwork by Carole Johnstone
Deep Within The Marrow, Hidden In My Smile by Damien Angelica Walters
The Oestridae by Robert Levy
My Sister, The Fairy Princess by Michelle Ann King
Trying To Get Back To Nonchalant by Ralph Robert Moore


The issue's artists are
Ben Baldwin
Dave Senecal
Warwick Fraser-Coombe
Joachim Luetke


Non Fiction this issue;
Coffinmaker's Blues by Stephen Volk -TO BEAT THE DARK, OR THE DISQUIET MAN
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker - THEATRES OF BLOOD
Blood Spectrum - Gary Couzens - DVDs/Blu-Ray reviews
Case Notes - book reviews by Peter Tennant.
Interviewee – Paul Meloy


Peter Tennant's Case Notes book and novella reviews this issue include
FRACTURED PAUL MELOY; The Night Clock plus extensive interview with the author
LITTLE MONSTERS; Insect Literature by Lafcadio Hearn, Teeming Terrors edited by Christine Morgan, Creeping Crawlers edited by Allen Ashley
THE SILVER SCREAM ;Stanley Kubrick's The Studies in the Horror Film edited by Danel Olson, The Making of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead by Lee Karr, Film Gutter Volume 1 by Alex Davis, Halloween by Murray Leeder, The Curse of Frankenstein by Marcus K. Harmes, The Blair Witch Project by Peter Turner


Gary Couzens's DVD reviews this issue
The Ninth Configuration, Symptoms, Audition, Yakuza Apocalypse, Martyrs (2016), The Green Inferno, Ghoulies, Ghoulies II, Scream Park, Anguish, Emelie, The Hallow, Dark Signal, Jeruzalem, Backtrack, I Survived a Zombie Holocaust, Bloodsucking Bosses, Fire End of Days, Exposed, The Forgotten

Genres: Horror

Magazine

First published May 1, 2016

Reviews

[Steven Dines · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story picks: The Oestridae by Robert Levy and Trying to Get Back to Nonchalant by Ralph Robert Moore

[Morbus Iff · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first issue of Black Static and absolutely floored at how much I enjoyed it.