Black Static

Yesterday it was Valentine's Day, and today I do the reviewer equivalent of posting 'Dear John' letters, taking a long, hard look at my TBR pile and deciding which books are no longer realistically in contention for a review in the pages of Black Static.

There are thirty five titles getting "retired" this time around, all of which are now over a year old and some of which probably shouldn't have been sent to me in the first place.

We bid a tearful farewell to:-

• Edited by Ellen Datlow - The Monstrous - Tachyon Publications paperback (mobi)
• Peter James - The House on Cold Hill - Macmillan hc (ARC)
• Nick Cutter - The Deep - Headline pb
• Graham Masterton - Blood Sisters - Head of Zeus hc
• Adam Nevill - Lost Girl - Pan Books pb
• J. L. Weinberg - True Religion - Chelsea Station Editions pb (mobi)
• Hal Duncan - Testament - Eibonvale Press pb (PDF)
• Edited by Kat Rocha - Whispers from the Abyss 2 - 01 Publishing pb (PDF)
• Edited by C. M. Muller - Nightscript Volume 1 - Chthonic Matter pb (PDF)
• Kim Newman - The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School - Titan Books pb
• Stephen King - Joyland: The Illustrated Edition - Titan Books hc
• Jon Bassoff - The Incurables - DarkFuse eBook
• Kenneth Calhoun - Black Moon - Vintage pb
• Simon Gosden - Nineteen nuns on the Number 15 bus: The Southend Zombie Apocalypse - Create Space Independent Publishing Platform pb
• Brendan Connell - Cannibals of West Papua - Zagava hc (PDF)
• Edited by Simon Strantzas - Aickman's Heirs - Undertow Publications pb (PDF)
• John Claude Smith - Riding the Centipede - Omnium Gatherum pb (mobi)
• Dean Harrison - Nymph - Omnium Gatherum Media pb (mobi)
• Neil Davies - The Village Witch - Omnium Gatherum Media pb (mobi)
• Edited by Johnny Mains - Best British Horror 2015 - Salt Publishing pb (PDF)
• Jennifer Loring - Those of My Kind - Omnium Gatherum Books pb (mobi)
• Andrew Pyper - The Damned - Simon & Schuster hb (ARC)
• F. R. Tallis - The Forbidden - Pan paperback (previously hardback)
• D. B. C. Pierre - Breakfast with the Borgias - Hammer paperback
• Josh Malerman - Bird Box - Harper Voyager pb
• Mark Morris - The Wolves of London - Titan Books paperback
• Stephen King - Revival - Hodder & Stoughton hardcover (ARC)
• Adam Nevill - No One Gets Out Alive - Pan Macmillan paperback
• Kim Newman - An English Ghost Story - Titan paperback
• Grady Hendrix - Horrorstor - Quirk Books paperback
• Richard Littler - Discovering Scarfolk - Ebury Press hardcover
• Matthew Pritchard - Werewolf - Salt Publishing paperback
• Mark Morris - The Black - PS Publishing hardcover (PDF)
• Chrysler Szarlan - The Hawley Book of the Dead - Century hardcover
• Edgar Cantero - The Supernatural Enhancements - Del Rey hardcover