Black Static Issue 44

Black Static’s January–February 2015 issue starts the year with novelettes from Simon Avery and Tyler Keevil and short stories from Priya Sharma, Jackson Kuhl and E. Catherine Tobler. 'Ghost' is Martin Hanford’s cover art and he provides an interior illustration, as do Richard Wagner and George Cotronis. The usual features are present; regular comment columns by Stephen Volk and Lynda E. Rucker - the latter now renamed Notes From the Borderland; Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee - DVD/Blu-ray/VoD reviews include Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For, Vikings Season Two, True Blood Season Seven, The Strain Season One; Case Notes by Peter Tennant - book reviews include titles from Tim Waggoner, Aliya Whiteley, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary McMahon, and Tim Waggoner - who is this issue's subject of Peter’s interviewing technique.

So Black Static is essentially a fiction magazine containing short stories in the horror and dark fantasy genres. But it covers other aspects of the genre via comment columns, reviews of books, movies, DVDs, TV and downloaded video.

Peter Tennant's Case Notes book and novella reviews this issue include;
A REHEARSAL FOR DEATH: TIM WAGGONER plus author interview
Bone Whispers
Deep Like the River
The Last Mile
A Strange and Savage Garden
The Way of All Flesh
FIVE NOVELLAS
Conduits by Jennifer Loring
Mutator by Gary Fry
Differently There by John Llewellyn Probert
The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley
Prisoner 489 by Joe R. Lansdale
EARTHLING PUBLICATIONS
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman & Norman Prentiss
Everything You Need by Michael Marshall Smith
OMNIUM GATHERUM Autumn in the Abyss by John Claude Smith
A Respite for the Dead by Lucy Taylor
Candy House by Kate Jonez
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
Zombies: A Hunter's Guide by Joseph A. McCullough
The Squickerwonkers by Evangeline Lilly
GARY McMAHON
The Night Just Got Darker
The End
ANTHOLOGIES
Poor Souls' Light by Curious Tales writers' collective
Dead Funny edited by Robin Ince & Johnny Mains

Blood Spectrum: DVD/Blu-ray/VoD Reviews by Tony Lee
The Girl Who Knew Too Much; Nekromantik; Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For; Deliver Us From Evil; Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead; Ragnarok: The Viking Apocalypse; Vikings Season Two; True Blood Season Seven; The Strain Season One; The Rover; Honeymoon; Ganja & Hess

Non Fiction this issue;
Coffinmaker's Blues - Stephen Volk - columnist
Notes From the Borderland - Lynda E. Rucker - columnist
Blood Spectrum - Tony Lee - DVDs/Blu-Ray reviews
Case Notes by Peter Tennant - book reviews.
Interviewee - Tim Waggoner