Black Static

Listed below are the books received for review since the last update, which was back on 6 May 2014.

There are twenty four new titles, of which three have been written or edited by women, taking our totals for the year so far to a nicely round one hundred books received, twenty and a half of them with a female byline (21%).

That compares with fifty one books reviewed in the magazine so far this year, of which fourteen and a half have been written or edited by women (28%).

And at this time last year, more or less, we'd received one hundred and thirteen books, of which twenty six had been written or edited by women (23%)

Standard Disclaimer: As ever, people are welcome to query me regarding the possibility of a review by writing to whitenoise@ttapress.com with the usual caveat that an expression of interest does not guarantee if or when a review will be done.

August 2014

• Richard Farren Barber - The Sleeping Dead - DarkFuse eBook
• Tim Curran - Blackout - DarkFuse eBook
• Lee Thompson - A Beautiful Madness - DarkFuse eBook
• Maynard Sims - A Plague of Echoes - Samhain Publishing Ltd paperback (PDF)
• Ben Peek - The Godless - Tor hardback (ARC)

June 2014

• Colleen Douglas - Origin - Cosmic Egg Books paperback (PDF)
• Murray Leeder - Halloween - Auteur Publishing paperback
• Peter Stenson - Fiend - Windmill Books paperback

May 2014

• Edited by Paul Fry - Beware the Dark #2 - Short, Scary Tales Publications magazine (PDF)
• Edited by Brian J. Showers - The Green Books #3 - Swan River Press paperback
• R. B. Russell - The Dark Return of Time - Swan River Press paperback
• Joe R. Lansdale - Cold in July - Tachyon Publications paperback (ARC)
• Mark Allen Smith - The Confessor - Simon & Schuster Ltd paperback
• Chris Carter - One by One - Simon & Schuster Ltd paperback
• Stephen Bywater - The Devil's Ark - Headline (ARC)
• Clifford Beal - The Raven's Banquet - Solaris eBook (PDF)

April 2014

• Edited by Ian Whates - La Femme - NewCon Press hardback
• Edited by Ian Whates - Noir - NewCon Press hardback
• Jeffrey Thomas - Ghosts of Punktown - Dark Regions Press paperback
• Derek Gunn - Vampire Apocalypse: Trail of Tears - Permuted Press eBook

March 2014

• Tim Waggoner - Deep Like the River - Dark Regions Press paperback
• Angela Slatter - Home and Hearth - Spectral Press chapbook (PDF)
• Simon Clark - The Fall - Telos Publishing paperback (Kindle edition)

February 2014

• Sam Stone - The Darkness Within - Telos Publishing paperback (Kindle edition)