Here Comes The Future
Black Static #26 is at the printers and, all being well, will mail out to subscribers shortly, after which it's all in the laps of the postal gods, and that may not be a good thing remembering the debacle that happened this time last year. If it's going to delay the delivery of Black Static then I think there's a strong case to be made for cancelling this Christmas malarkey, and the next person to mention how pretty the snow looks will get a glare of condemnation just as soon as I can defrost my eyelashes to give them one.
Andy will be along shortly to reveal what the next issue contains, with fictional and illustrative examples, but in the meantime to whet your appetite this is what I have lined up in the Case Notes section:-
Stocking Fillers
Reviews of books that might make excellent Christmas presents:-
Taxidermied: The Art of Roman Dirge
Monsters in the Movies by John Landis
A Christmas Odyssey by Anne Perry
M. R. James: Collected Ghost Stories
Old Albert - An Epilogue by Brian J. Showers
Delicate Toxins edited by John Hirschhorn-Smith
Remains by G. A. Pickin
Sullom Hill by Christopher Kenworthy
Ill At Ease by Stephen Bacon, Mark West and Neil Williams
Elders of the Tribe
Reviews of recent and reissued works by three of the horror genre's elder statesmen:-
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
The Exorcist and The Redemption by William Peter Blatty
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot
Reviews of the latest releases by writers we've either published or featured in Black Static:-
Quiet Houses by Simon Kurt Unsworth
The Unseen by Alexandra Sokoloff
The Burning Soul by John Connolly
The Shadow of the Soul by Sarah Pinborough
Dead Bad Things and The Concrete Grove by Gary McMahon
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
Do Not Pass Go by Joel Lane
That's twenty one titles in all, which takes my tally of books reviewed for the year to one hundred and one. Of those, twenty six and a half have been either written or edited by women, so let's call that 26%, which looks like it's going to be slightly higher than the percentage of books received with women's names on the cover, but I won't know for certain until I do my final 'Books Received - An Update' post for 2011.
Of course we receive considerably more books than I can review (something like 75-100% more would be my guess), so anyone who wishes to submit a book for review is reminded that they do so at their own risk, and there is no guarantee when, or even if, a review will appear. Before sending in a copy, please consider carefully if I'm the right person and Black Static the right venue for reviews of your work - strong indicators that I am, would include publication in the magazine and/or positive reviews of your work by me in the past, though I still emphasise that there are no guarantees.
People are always welcome to query me regarding the possibility of a review via whitenoise@ttapress.com
Section items by date:
