Black Static Issue 38

The January–February 2014 issue is dedicated to the memory of TTA Press magazine supporter and contributor of twenty years Joel Lane, who passed away in November 2013. Nicholas Royle pays tribute to his dear friend in 'The Conscience of the Circuit'.
Black Static 38 contains new horror and dark fantasy fiction by John Grant, Tim Waggoner, Andrew Hook, Maura McHugh, Danny Rhodes and, this issue’s debut author, Malcolm Devlin. The front and back cover art is by Joachim Luetke, and interior illustrations are by George Cotronis, Richard Wagner, David Gentry, Vincent Sammy, and Geoffrey Grisso. The usual features are present: Coffinmaker's Blues by Stephen Volk and Blood Pudding by Lynda E. Rucker (comment); Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee (DVD/Blu-ray reviews); Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews: includes an interview with author Gary Fry and a review of Paul Meloy's 'Dogs with their Eyes Shut'.)
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 and TV.

Fiction this issue
A Knot of Toads by Andrew Hook
The Last Fear by Tim Waggoner
Passion Play by Malcolm Devlin
The Hanging Tree by Maura McHugh
Passchendaele by Danny Rhodes
His Artist Wife by John Grant

The issue's artists are
David Gentry
George Cotronis
Geoffrey Grisso
Richard Wagner
Vincent Sammy
Joachim Luetke (Cover art)

Peter Tennant's Case Notes book and novella reviews this issue include
Gary Fry’s
Shades of Nothingness
Conjure House
Emergence
Lurker
Menace
plus author interview
Rupetta by N.A. Sulway,
Darkscapes by Anne-Sylvie Salzman
La Squab by David Britton,
Lord Horror: Reverbstorm by David Britton & John Coulthart,
The Réparateur of Strasbourg by Ian R. MacLeod
Flying Fish by Randall Silvis
Dogs With Their Eyes Shut by Paul Meloy
In the Broken Birdcage of Kathleen Fair by Cate Gardner
Broken Sigil by William Meikle
The Black Church by Toby Tate
The Fading Place by Mary SanGiovanni
Nightmare Man by Alan Ryker

Tony Lee's DVD reviews this issue:
The Conjuring, Insidious Chapter 2, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, You're Next, Blood Glacier, Bounty Killer, The Complex, Kiss of the Damned, Odd Thomas, John Dies at the End, Big Ass Spider, The Colony, Prisoners, Frost