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Black Static, #9, February/March 2009

By Scott M. Sandridge ⋅ April 1, 2009

When Black Static #9 landed on my lap (well, actually, on my computer as a reviewer’s PDF file, if you want to get technical), I initially had two thoughts go through my head. My first was, “Cool. You can never have too much horror.” My second occurred immediately after reading the line, “Paris Hilton is [...]

Black Static, #8, December 2008/January 2009

By J. C. Runolfson ⋅ March 15, 2009

Black Static seems either unaware of the diversity of their potential audience, or determined to cater to a particular, narrow readership. The issue begins with several short blurbs on various happenings in the horror industry. The very first of these blurbs takes a sideswipe at Japan’s popularity as a cinematic horror capital and [...]

Black Static 7: Transmissions From Beyond

By Elizabeth A. Allen ⋅ November 30, 2008

Black Static 7: Transmissions From Beyond kicks off with Bruce Holland Rogers’s “The Reason for the Season,” where a boy with a bleak outlook on life creates a morbid Halloween costume. Goth without humor, Rogers reminds us that horror can still be unironic, existential, and, well, horrific.
Trent Hergenrader gives us a child’s-eye view of horror [...]

Black Static #6

By Sarah Jackson ⋅ October 1, 2008

The sixth issue of Black Static offers up six short stories for readers’ enjoyment this month, alongside a selection of in-depth reviews, interviews with Scott Sigler and Jon Oliver, and features by regulars Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler, and Mike O’Driscoll. After only five instalments, Andy Cox’s magazine of dark fiction is already receiving a lot [...]

Black Static #5

By Rae Bryant ⋅ June 10, 2008

Few horror publications still offer a breadth of terror that satisfies the widely diverse palates of the mature and experienced audience. Too often, splatterpunk takes center stage: blood curdling screams, sexy blonde teenagers running from a dripping blade. While this reader does not discredit the gore scene—it is as foundational to contemporary horror as [...]

Black Static #4

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ April 17, 2008

If acoustic static is white noise—a random signal with a flat power spectral density—then perhaps it follows that Black Static or, forgive the synoeciosis, black white noise, presents a primary inversion, a constantly fluctuating power spectral density. The fourth issue of this stylish horror magazine delivers six signal bursts, and I’m happy to report that [...]

Black Static #3

By Paul Abbamondi ⋅ March 5, 2008

Black Static is a very stylized magazine, with an emphasis strongly put on layout, artwork, and design. On occasion, the white font against black background proves to be too straining on the eyes, but otherwise it’s a well put together product, offering a solid number of dark, edgy short stories that blur genre and subject [...]

Black Static #2, December 2007

By Val Grimm ⋅ December 17, 2007

Black Static serves up an intriguing blend of fiction and essays this month, wrapped up in a dark design whose aesthetic is caught between eras, a wobbly-legged lovechild of a ‘zine and a website. Its pages are replete with Photoshop art, rusty backgrounds, and the simulacra of whiteout, creases, underexposed patches, scratches, sharpie annotations, Polaroids, [...]

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