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Black Static
Black Static Issue 58
Black Static 58 contains new dark stories and novelettes by Mark Morris, Helen Marshall, Tim Casson, Gwendolyn Kiste, and Joe Pitkin. The cover art is by Joachim Luetke, with interior illustrations by Joachim Luetke, Warwick Fraser-Coombe, and Vince Haig. Features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews and an in-depth interview with Richard Chizmar); Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews).
The cover art is 'At the Drug's Core' by Joachim Luetke
Fiction:
Holiday Romance by Mark Morris
The Process of Chuddar by Tim Casson
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe
Nonesuch by Joe Pitkin
Survival Strategies by Helen Marshall
illustrated by Vince Haig
Songs to Help You Cope When Your Mom Won’t Stop Haunting You and Your Friends by Gwendolyn Kiste
illustrated by Joachim Luetke
Columns:
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
FOUR GRAPHIC NOVELS AND AN ART BOOK
Night Screams for Mercy by Hannu Kesola, illustrated by Jussi Piironen
Bullet Ballerina by Tom Piccirilli, illustrated by Greg Chapman
Partners by Glenn Møane, illustrated by Elias Martins, colouring by Russell Vincent Yu
Bullet Justine: The End and the Beginning by Mauro Padovani
The Art of Tomislav Tikulin
DARK SHADOWS AND DIRTY CORNERS: RICHARD CHIZMAR
A Long December
Darkness Whispers, with Brian James Freeman
Gwendy's Button Box, with Stephen King
plus author interview
EURO-TREATS
Black Tea and Other Tales by Samuel Marolla
Imago Mortis by Samuel Marolla
The Horror at Gancio Rosso by Paul Di Filippo Claudio Chillemi
Vessel and Solsvart by Berit Elligsen
Ink in the Blood by Stéphanie Hochet (translated by Mike Mitchell)
Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens
A Monster Calls, The Love Witch, Pieces, The City of the Dead, Caltiki: The Immortal Monster, My Father Die, The Phantasm Collection, House: The Complete Collection, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Ibiza Undead, Swiss Army Man, Pet, Seoul Station, The Chamber, Shut In, The Beaster Bunny!, Day of Reckoning, Stake Land II, The Resident, Midnight Sun, Fortitude Season Two
The cover art is 'At the Drug's Core' by Joachim Luetke
Fiction:
Holiday Romance by Mark Morris
The Process of Chuddar by Tim Casson
illustrated by Warwick Fraser-Coombe
Nonesuch by Joe Pitkin
Survival Strategies by Helen Marshall
illustrated by Vince Haig
Songs to Help You Cope When Your Mom Won’t Stop Haunting You and Your Friends by Gwendolyn Kiste
illustrated by Joachim Luetke
Columns:
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
FOUR GRAPHIC NOVELS AND AN ART BOOK
Night Screams for Mercy by Hannu Kesola, illustrated by Jussi Piironen
Bullet Ballerina by Tom Piccirilli, illustrated by Greg Chapman
Partners by Glenn Møane, illustrated by Elias Martins, colouring by Russell Vincent Yu
Bullet Justine: The End and the Beginning by Mauro Padovani
The Art of Tomislav Tikulin
DARK SHADOWS AND DIRTY CORNERS: RICHARD CHIZMAR
A Long December
Darkness Whispers, with Brian James Freeman
Gwendy's Button Box, with Stephen King
plus author interview
EURO-TREATS
Black Tea and Other Tales by Samuel Marolla
Imago Mortis by Samuel Marolla
The Horror at Gancio Rosso by Paul Di Filippo Claudio Chillemi
Vessel and Solsvart by Berit Elligsen
Ink in the Blood by Stéphanie Hochet (translated by Mike Mitchell)
Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens
A Monster Calls, The Love Witch, Pieces, The City of the Dead, Caltiki: The Immortal Monster, My Father Die, The Phantasm Collection, House: The Complete Collection, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Ibiza Undead, Swiss Army Man, Pet, Seoul Station, The Chamber, Shut In, The Beaster Bunny!, Day of Reckoning, Stake Land II, The Resident, Midnight Sun, Fortitude Season Two
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January 26, 2021
THE PROCESS OF CHUDDAR by Tim Casson
“There is also an installation by the artist Miya called The Curse. I imagine you think that’s just a coincidence.”
In many ways a workmanlike narration, even pedestrian, as if you are being told it painstakingly by a sociopath who has no ease of expression. And in many ways this is the Process of the Process that gradually grows on you. Literally ‘grows’ on you and literally ‘you’! You are in this story being clumsily ‘charmed’ by the storyteller as narrator not author, a true story of his boyhood lobster fishing for his roll-up smoking aunt. If indeed you are you or he is he, or even she? The discovery of the backstoried old man Garvey in his pungent symbiosis, and the cells multiplying into an eventual successful business of that cheese-like symbiosis of fungal substance, alongside the glimpse you are given of the art installation of visionary monstrousness, in a single lantern-lit sea-girt basement. The story grabs you in the same way. Like a mulch, the millions of cells reminding me of this gestalt review’s earlier scatter-gun process of self.
And Miya – a mycological sort of ‘my’ and ‘I’ and ‘you’…
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.
“There is also an installation by the artist Miya called The Curse. I imagine you think that’s just a coincidence.”
In many ways a workmanlike narration, even pedestrian, as if you are being told it painstakingly by a sociopath who has no ease of expression. And in many ways this is the Process of the Process that gradually grows on you. Literally ‘grows’ on you and literally ‘you’! You are in this story being clumsily ‘charmed’ by the storyteller as narrator not author, a true story of his boyhood lobster fishing for his roll-up smoking aunt. If indeed you are you or he is he, or even she? The discovery of the backstoried old man Garvey in his pungent symbiosis, and the cells multiplying into an eventual successful business of that cheese-like symbiosis of fungal substance, alongside the glimpse you are given of the art installation of visionary monstrousness, in a single lantern-lit sea-girt basement. The story grabs you in the same way. Like a mulch, the millions of cells reminding me of this gestalt review’s earlier scatter-gun process of self.
And Miya – a mycological sort of ‘my’ and ‘I’ and ‘you’…
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.
March 31, 2018
My favourite stories in this issue were: 'Songs to Help You Cope When Your Mom Won't Stop Haunting You and Your Friends' by Gwendolyn Kiste and 'The Process of Chuddar' by Tim Casson.
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