Black Static is essentially a fiction magazine containing short stories in the horror and dark fantasy genres. But it covers other aspects of the genre via reviews of books, movies, DVDs and TV.
Fiction this issue:
Isaac's Room by Daniel Mills
Men Playing Ghosts, Playing God by Steven J. Dines
The Monster Makers by Steve Rasnic Tem
Arches and Pillars by Michael Griffin
Summer Girls by Caspian Gray
What Would You Say If I Asked You To Love Me? by Jason Gould
If You Can Read This, You're Too Close by Carole Johnstone
The issue's artists are Richard Wagner (cover & interior), Richard Sampson,
Vincent Sammy, Dave Senecal & Geoffrey Grisso
Peter Tennant's Case Notes reviews include
The 13 Ghosts of Christmas editor Simon Marshall-Jones
Dark World: Ghost Stories editor Timothy Parker Russell
Hauntings editor Ellen Datlow
This House is Haunted John Boyne
The White Devil Justin Evans
A Haunting of Ghosts Maynard Sims
In a Season of Dead Weather Mark Fuller Dillon
A Natural History of Ghosts Roger Clarke
Darker Minds editors Ross Warren and Anthony Watson
Shadows Edge editor Simon Strantzas
Roadkill Joseph D’Lacey
Touch Me With Your Cold, Hard Fingers Elizabeth Stott
The Jungle Conrad Williams
An Antique Land John Shire
Everything is Always Wrong Graham Tugwell
Little Red Transistor Radio From Trieste Dragan Todorovic
Girls & Monsters Anne Michaud
Soul Screams Sara Jayne Townsend
Busy Blood Stuart Hughes & D.F. Lewis’
Danse Macabre editor Nancy Kilpatrick
Vampyric Variations editor Nancy Kilpatrick
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre James Rose
The Descent James Marriott
The Shadow Out Of Time H.P. Lovecraft, Graphic adaptor N.J. Culbard
The Castle Franz Kafka, Graphic adaptors David Zane Mairowitz & Jaromir 99
Tony Lee's DVD reviews this issue:
Curandero: Dawn of the Demon, In their Skin, Texas Chainsaw, Apartment 1303, Beautiful Creatures, Mama, Warm Bodies, Maniac, Stoker
Black Sabbath, The Brood, Kuroneko, The Legend of Hell House, The Man who Haunted Himself, Motel Hell, Spider Baby
The Incident, Kill for Me, Death Game, Static