BLACK STATIC No. 18: Another Keeper

The 18th issue of the UK's BLACK STATIC magazine continues to be one of the best horror fiction magazines on the market (it's been showing up at American Barnes & Noble stores lately, so now you have NO excuse not to check it out).
After another great film column from Stephen Volk, as well as a continuation of Christopher Fowler's 2nd installment of a short story competition (the second set of winning 10 shorts are printed, too), we dive head-first into this issue's 5 fiction pieces, and as usual there isn't a sour one in the bunch. Nina Allan's opening aquatic offering ORINOCO will make you look at angelfish in a whole new way, Carole Johnstone's BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE gives a nice look at one woman's paranoia, and Simon Kurt Unsworth's A MAN OF ICE AND SORROW is one of the creepiest snowman-themed stories I've read in quite a while. Nicholas Royle's THE OBSCURE BIRD is a standard yet very well told tale of a woman who discovers why her husband's been acting so weird at night, and Mercurio D. Rivera's TU SUFRIMIENTO SHALL PROTECT US deals with a man trying to understand the annoying sounds that continue to disturb his apartment, complete with an unexpected conclusion.
Then comes the review sections, which I always turn to first. Peter Tennant delivers yet another fantastic interview, this time with author Adam Nevill, then gives us another batch of in-depth book reviews, including Ellen Datlow's LOVECRAFT UNBOUND and one I'm now looking forward to titled DECAY INEVITABLE by Conrad A. Williams. The DVD reviews take up 7 pages and cover most recent releases.
All this, and one wickedly disturbing cover, too. Seriously...why aren't you reading this yet? Info at http://ttapress.com/