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Issue 7 will be out in a couple of weeks. It is full of dark and troubling things.

Cover and all original art is as usual by David Gentry.



Stories:

The Reason For The Season by Bruce Holland Rogers
The Hodag by Trent Hergenrader
Blood God Blood by Eric Gregory
The Talent Girl by Daniel Kaysen
Pages From a Broken Book by Tony Richards
The Deep Walker by Alison J. Littlewood
Bait by David Sakmyster

Features:

White Noise compiled by Peter Tennant
Interference by Christopher Fowler
Electric Darkness by Stephen Volk
Night's Plutonian Shore by Mike O'Driscoll

Reviews:

Case Notes by Peter Tennant
Many book reviews including a special feature on Leisure Books, reviewing titles by Gary Braunbeck, Sarah Pinborough, Gord Rollo, Brian Keene, John Everson and Edward Lee, plus an interview with Leisure editor Don D'Auria; novels by Thomas Ligotti and Stephen Gregory from Virgin's new horror line; 'famous monsters' with books by Suzy McKee Charnas and Nicholas Pekearo; and a feature on the new novels by Tim Lebbon including an interview with the author.

Blood Spectrum by Tony Lee
DVD reviews of many latest releases with chances for subscribers to win free copies of a lot of them. Who Saw Her Die?, Lost Boys 2: The Tribe, The Wizard of Gore, Shutter, B.T.K., Dante 01, Chemical Wedding, Day of the Dead, Dead Space: Downfall, Vexille, The Happening, Tin Man, The Flock, P2, The Vanguard, Outpost, Solstice, The Short Films of David Lynch, Eraserhead. Plus a round up of other DVDs received, including the Caligula Imperial Edition, Salò, The Dead Girl, Timber Falls, The Guard Post, Days of Darkness, Bone Dry, Reservoir Dogs Collector's Edition...

Details of competitions will be listed on a separate thread.

Meanwhile, subscribe now!

Can't wait. Particularly looking forward to Kaysen's, but anything 'dark and troubling' sounds good to me...

looking forward to this as well. the last issue really blew me away so hopefully this will be more of the same!

Very, very excited to be in Black Static.

And what a great cover....

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http://www.alisonlittlewood.co.uk

I read the item in White Noise on Comma Press's new anthology, The New Uncanny, to which I contribute a new story, 'The Dummy'. It seems that my name is neither a 'familiar name', nor 'one that we naturally associate with horror', as it wasn't mentioned at all.

Very sorry about that Nick but we got the info not from any of the contributors or from the publisher but from amazon, and your name wasn't mentioned there, nor does it show up on any other search. Last time I looked the book wasn't listed on the Comma Press website either. I can assure you that if we had known we would have mentioned you, and the item would've become even more newsworthy.

This might be a good time to remind Black Static readers to send us their news!

Andy: the Forgotten Man of Horror thanks you for your kind words. Bloody publishers.

Incidentally, I'll be reading from my story in The New Uncanny at Lancaster Litfest on Halloween, in Lancaster, alongside Gerard Woodward and Matthew Holness.

Prior to that, tomorrow evening in fact, I'll be reading at the launch of the new Ambit, at Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town, north London, if any TTA Forum users are down that way and fancy a change from staring at the walls.

Matthew Holness isn't mentioned on Amazon either Nick, so you're not the only one overlooked

To reiterate/expand on what Andy said, folks please send me any news via whitenoise@ttapress.demon.co.uk It's not a guarantee you'll get a mention, as I have to make decisions about relevance and Andy has to make decisions about space, but at least you're in with a shot.

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http://trumpetville.wordpress.com
http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/casenotesblog/

ISSUE 7 RECIEVED AND LOOKING LOVELY.

Arrived in Workington, Cumbria yesterday.

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Jo Thomas
http://www.journeymouse.net/

Go my issue yesterday in North Wales cheers!

Must renew my subscription now!

Journeymouse, you're not Alison Jeapes. are you?

Nope. Not unless my parents told lies for my birth certificates, anyway

Am I being a total idiot if I ask who Alison is?

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Jo Thomas
http://www.journeymouse.net/

Jo: not at all. I just dodn't want to be a dick myself by recommending something to you that I might already have recommended to you. Alison Jeapes was an MA student of mine from W/ton. Trevor Hoyle's brilliant novel, Blind Needle (John Calder), is set in Workington, though he calls it Brickton. It's a thriller with an experiemental element. One of my favourite novels. If you can get hold of a copy, you might like it.