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 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 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 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; 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