Black Static

In the Case Notes section of Black Static #19 I review two anthologies published by Gray Friar Press. Unfortunately space did not permit me to discuss every single story, but by way of a consolation prize, and for the benefit of those who may want to know if a particular author was included, I'm going to reproduce the Table of Contents for each volume.

Where the Heart Is: A Guided Tour of British Horror (Gray Friar Press paperback, 221pp, £8.99)

Edited by Gary Fry

Nineteen stories, each set in the part of Britain the author considers home, and with explanatory comments.

London - Ticker - Allen Ashley

Romford - A Killing in the Market - Stuart Young

Clacton-on-Sea - So - D. F. Lewis

Norfolk - The Onion Code - Andrew Hook

Bristol - Easter - Stephen Volk

Swansea - The Cuckoos of Bliss - Rhys Hughes

Gower Peninsula - Summerhouse - Mike O'Driscoll

Birmingham - The Last Witness - Joel Lane

Leicester - The City in the Rain - Mark West

Sheffield - Last Summer - Stephen Bacon

Greater Manchester - Winter's End - Simon Bestwick

Wigan - The Daftie - Paul Finch

Wakefield - A Victim of Natural Selection - John Travis

Dewsbury - Ways Out - Mark Patrick Lynch

Leeds - Quarry Hill - Michelle James

Lancashire - Scale Hall - Simon Kurt Unsworth

North York Moors - The Welcoming - Gary Fry

Sunderland - We Are the Doorway - Gary McMahon

Glasgow - Stamping Ground - Carole Johnstone

Never Again: Weird Fiction Against Racism and Fascism (Gray Friar Press paperback, 294pp, £10)

Edited by Allyson Bird and Joel Lane

Twenty three stories, eleven of them reprints, in an anthology that attempts 'to voice the collective revulsion of writers in the weird fiction genre against political attitudes that stifle compassion and deny our collective human inheritance', with all profits going to various anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations. 'Introduction: Night of Broken Glass' by the editors, and appendix giving useful addresses.

Feet of Clay - Nina Allan

Volk - R.J. Krijnen-Kemp

In the Arcade - Lisa Tuttle

A Flowering Wound - John Howard

Sense - Tony Richards

In On the Tide - Alison Littlewood

Decision - R.B. Russell

South of Autumn - Mat Joiner

Survivor's Guilt - Rosanne Rabinowitz

Rediffusion - Rhys Hughes

A Place for Feeding - Simon Kurt Unsworth

The Night They Missed the Horror Show - Joe R. Lansdale

Ghost Jail - Kaaron Warren

The Torturer - Steve Duffy

Methods of Confinement - Gary McMahon

Damned If You Don't - Rob Shearman

Machine - Carole Johnstone

After the Ape - Stephen Volk

Zulu's War - David Sutton

Death of Dreams - Thana Niveau

Beyond Each Blue Horizon - Andrew Hook

The Depths - Ramsey Campbell

Malachi - Simon Bestwick