Black Infinity: Blobs, Globs, Slime and Spores

Black Infinity #2

by Tom English (Editor), Matt Cowan (Contributor), Todd Treichel (Contributor)

Black Infinity #2 features 13 tales of blobs, globs, slime, and spores, plus a brief history of gunk and goo in SF magazines, movies, TV and comics; not to mention science fact, retro movie reviews and comics. 200 pages of slimy fun, with new stories by Rhys Hughes ("Swallowing the Amazon"), Gregory L. Norris ("The Tree Surgeon") and Marc Vun Kannon ("Boarding Party"). Plus Douglas Smith's "Out of the Light" and Kurt Newton's "The Old Mill."

Genres: Horror

198 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 2018

About the author

Tom English is an environmental chemist who writes strange tales of the supernatural in his spare time. His fiction appears in several anthologies, including Haunted House Short Stories, Detective Thrillers Short Stories, Gaslight Arcanum (an anthology of supernatural Sherlock Holmes stories), and Challenger Unbound, as well as issues of Weirdbook, Black Infinity, and All Hallows (The Journal of the Ghost Story Society). His first story “Lightning Rod” was selected to appear in Horror: The Best of the Year, 2008 (Wildside Press, 2009). Tom’s nonfiction books include Diet for Dreamers, Angel in the Kitchen, and The Heart of an Angel, both written with his wife, Wilma. He also edited Bound for Evil, a 2008 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best anthology, featuring stories about strange, often deadly books. Tom resides with Wilma, surrounded by books and beasts, deep in the woods of New Kent, VA.

Reviews

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this compilation to be more suited to the tastes of a modern reader, compared to the previous volume in the series. Credit for that goes to the following classics present here:
1. Joseph Payne Brennan's 'Slime';
2. Robert Sheckley's 'The Leech';
3. William Hope Hodgson's 'The Voice in the Night'.
I also liked the non-fiction sections 'Threat Watch' and 'How Weird is That?'
Overall, a readable collection.

[Jason McCuiston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding! Top-notch creepy sci-fi, both classic and modern.