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Black Static
Black Static Issue 62
The March-April issue contains new horror fiction by Michael Wehunt, E. Catherine Tobler, Jack Westlake, Kay Chronister, and David Martin. The cover art is by Jim Burns, and interior illustrations by Jim Burns, Ben Baldwin, and Richard Wagner. Regular features include Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore, Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker, Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews, including an interview with Anna Tambour), Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews).
Cover Art: 'Sanguinary Scar' by Jim Burns
Fiction:
Sanguinary Scar by E. Catherine Tobler
illustrated by Jim Burns
Bury Me with Broken Light Bulbs, Bury Me in Shattered Glass by Jack Westlake
Things Behind the Sun by David Martin
illustrated by Ben Baldwin
Your Clothes a Sepulcher, Your Body a Grave by Kay Chronister
Caring for a Stray Dog (Metaphors) by Michael Wehunt
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Columns:
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore
DISAPPOINTING GEORGE NEWS
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
TWO FROM TARTARUS
Seven Strange Stories by Rebecca Lloyd; Holidays from Hell by Reggie Oliver
TWO NOVELS
Pseudotooth by Verity Holloway; Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
TWO SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS WITH A DIFFERENCE
Exploring Dark Short Fiction #1: A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem edited by Eric J. Guignard; The Ghost Club by William Meikle
MAGNIFICENT INSIGNIFICANTS WITH ANNA TAMBOUR
The Finest Ass in the Universe; Smoke Paper Mirrors; in-depth interview
Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens
Twin Peaks; Carrie; Thelma; When the Wind Blows; Witchhammer; The Witch Who Came from the Sea; Malatesta's Carnival of Blood; The Premonition; Mother!; A Ghost Story; The Ritual; Atomic Blonde; Annabelle: Creation; House (Hausu); Kills on Wheels; The Housemaid; Game of Thrones; Hounds of Love; and more
Cover Art: 'Sanguinary Scar' by Jim Burns
Fiction:
Sanguinary Scar by E. Catherine Tobler
illustrated by Jim Burns
Bury Me with Broken Light Bulbs, Bury Me in Shattered Glass by Jack Westlake
Things Behind the Sun by David Martin
illustrated by Ben Baldwin
Your Clothes a Sepulcher, Your Body a Grave by Kay Chronister
Caring for a Stray Dog (Metaphors) by Michael Wehunt
illustrated by Richard Wagner
Columns:
Notes From the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore
DISAPPOINTING GEORGE NEWS
Reviews:
Case Notes: Book Reviews by Peter Tennant
TWO FROM TARTARUS
Seven Strange Stories by Rebecca Lloyd; Holidays from Hell by Reggie Oliver
TWO NOVELS
Pseudotooth by Verity Holloway; Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
TWO SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS WITH A DIFFERENCE
Exploring Dark Short Fiction #1: A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem edited by Eric J. Guignard; The Ghost Club by William Meikle
MAGNIFICENT INSIGNIFICANTS WITH ANNA TAMBOUR
The Finest Ass in the Universe; Smoke Paper Mirrors; in-depth interview
Blood Spectrum: Film Reviews by Gary Couzens
Twin Peaks; Carrie; Thelma; When the Wind Blows; Witchhammer; The Witch Who Came from the Sea; Malatesta's Carnival of Blood; The Premonition; Mother!; A Ghost Story; The Ritual; Atomic Blonde; Annabelle: Creation; House (Hausu); Kills on Wheels; The Housemaid; Game of Thrones; Hounds of Love; and more
235 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2018
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May 23, 2018
My first Black Static is in the bag. This is one of the longer E-Mags and a pretty mixed bag.
“...her worth to him lies solely between her legs, in the fist of her womb where she knows nothing will now grow.”
Sanguinary Scar by E. Catherine Tobler ★★★☆☆
In a post apocalyptic water world a mad man rules New York obsessed with the loss of his son. He creates a violent world of incest, rape, and forced sterilization.
Arden’s father is that madman and she’s decided his time has come.
Bury Me With Broken Light Bulbs, Bury Me in Shattered Glass by Jack Westlake ★★★★☆
“Something else they tell you. Sort of.
Addiction is lonely.”
Two men with terrible addictions bond over going in and out of recovery. One doesn’t make it and dies terribly.
Things Behind the Sun by David Martin ★★★★☆
"Music’s more honest than the people who make it."
Well written and it just got better and better. I’ve never read a music horror story before.
"Do you know what the secret is behind every piece of music that lives on longer than the moment of its performance? People who don’t belong anywhere, creating a space where they can belong, a space that people who they’ve never even met will one day stumble across and feel more at home than they ever have anywhere else."
That made me think of Freddy Mercury like nothing else.
It was longer than needed but memorable and oddly believable.
Your Clothes a Sepulchral, Your Body a Grave by Kay Chronister ★★☆☆☆
Story of an orphan boy falling in love with a mentally ill dying girl and holding onto that strange love well into adulthood. I didn’t enjoy it.
Caring For a Stray Dog (Metaphors) by Michael Wehunt Did Not Start
This is a forty page story in a horror magazine with a lanky pit bull on the header. As I’m sensitive animal abuse, especially dogs, I couldn’t make myself read it. As it says "metaphors" it might not even have a dog in it... I just couldn’t do it.
The non fiction was ok, the highlight for me was learning that at one point David Lynch was going to direct Return of Jedi. I sincerely hope he’s offered another chance at creating a dark and mysterious Star Wars movie.
There were also movie and books reviews... that I often didn’t agree with, lol.
“...her worth to him lies solely between her legs, in the fist of her womb where she knows nothing will now grow.”
Sanguinary Scar by E. Catherine Tobler ★★★☆☆
In a post apocalyptic water world a mad man rules New York obsessed with the loss of his son. He creates a violent world of incest, rape, and forced sterilization.
Arden’s father is that madman and she’s decided his time has come.
Bury Me With Broken Light Bulbs, Bury Me in Shattered Glass by Jack Westlake ★★★★☆
“Something else they tell you. Sort of.
Addiction is lonely.”
Two men with terrible addictions bond over going in and out of recovery. One doesn’t make it and dies terribly.
Things Behind the Sun by David Martin ★★★★☆
"Music’s more honest than the people who make it."
Well written and it just got better and better. I’ve never read a music horror story before.
"Do you know what the secret is behind every piece of music that lives on longer than the moment of its performance? People who don’t belong anywhere, creating a space where they can belong, a space that people who they’ve never even met will one day stumble across and feel more at home than they ever have anywhere else."
That made me think of Freddy Mercury like nothing else.
It was longer than needed but memorable and oddly believable.
Your Clothes a Sepulchral, Your Body a Grave by Kay Chronister ★★☆☆☆
Story of an orphan boy falling in love with a mentally ill dying girl and holding onto that strange love well into adulthood. I didn’t enjoy it.
Caring For a Stray Dog (Metaphors) by Michael Wehunt Did Not Start
This is a forty page story in a horror magazine with a lanky pit bull on the header. As I’m sensitive animal abuse, especially dogs, I couldn’t make myself read it. As it says "metaphors" it might not even have a dog in it... I just couldn’t do it.
The non fiction was ok, the highlight for me was learning that at one point David Lynch was going to direct Return of Jedi. I sincerely hope he’s offered another chance at creating a dark and mysterious Star Wars movie.
There were also movie and books reviews... that I often didn’t agree with, lol.
January 27, 2021
YOUR CLOTHES A SEPULCHER, YOUR BODY A GRAVE
by Kay Chronister
“I shut my eyes and saw the veins snaking across your forehead, the veil slipping loose.”
This is a story of veins (felt or seen as part of the unrequited young love exchange of near cousins, in Marseille and elsewhere): and veils (with a retrocausal birthline of vampiric death and a taking of the veil as a (sanguinary as bleeding?) nun that both resonate ironically with the earlier Tobler) and I counted several uses of ‘vein’ and ‘veil’ throughout the text, plus ‘half-veiled’ and ‘unveiled’. It is a lush Proustian work with tea and teacups and hyacinths instead of cattleyas, a work that I have relished as another epiphany. This work actually used the word “epiphany”, and I also feel my mouth sucking and probing words like “nascent” and “abject”. And it also made me want to pick up my copy of CLARISSA to reread it but I can only currently find PAMELA (volume two) and that sort of defeats my purpose. But who wrote which letters to whom, pretending to be who? I shall reread this story itself. It seems to be calling me. And is slightly shorter than CLARISSA.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
November 14, 2019
"Things Behind the Sun" by David Martin is a great story
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