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I wish I had stumbled across this cool horror publication sooner. It's more an anthology of short fiction than a magazine format. I enjoyed the wide range of spooky tales, especially the cryptid, hitcher, and haunted house tales. Each story with a twist or original concept from the usual tropes. The closing story is equally chilling to its final haunting scene.
A wonderful collection of stories. All unique, haunting and with a message to share.
This may yet be the very best volume of Black Static, though I DO miss the insightful articles of Lynda E. Rucker and Ralph Robert Moore. There’s no question, though, that the selection of stories, varied as it is, makes for a captivating read from cover to cover.
Another set of remarkable Black Static stories, and good luck in crossing its new watersheds of horror literature to come. The detailed review of this book under my name is too long or impractical to post here, and the above is one of its observations.
A really top-notch double issue filled with solid dark fictions. The absolute standouts for me were Upland Wildlife by Rhonda Pressley Veit and The Undulating by Stephen Bacon.
I've been a reader of Black Static (and in it's prior incarnation, The Third Alternative) since 1994 but have never mentioned it on Goodreads because up to now it has been a magazine and I only review books. However, a change in the publishing climate has changed the format: instead of the usual columns and book/film reviews together with the fiction, we now simply have the fiction in a digest/anthology-type format. Whilst I loved and now miss the extras, I actually prefer reading the fiction in...