This back issue of Black Static #6, from August 2008, marked the magazines first full year of publication. Paul Meloy is a star TTA author with many stories to his credit but none of them within our E books. This ebook back issue corrects that omission as it contains Paul’s ‘All Mouth’, surely a title to make you shudder in this setting? This issue also includes the first published story from Ray Cluley, who soon became another TTA star. Good as these are you will also find stories from others in the TTA constellation; Simon Avery, Melanie Fazi, Peter Tennant and Nina Allan.

Fiction this issue
The Better Part of You by Simon Avery
Back on the Road by Melanie Fazi
Special Needs by Peter Tennant
En Saga by Nina Allan
All Mouth by Paul Meloy
Viva Las Vegas by Ray Cluley

The issue's artist
David Gentry

Non Fiction this issue;
White Noise (news) Peter Tennant
Scott Sigler Featurette - Peter Tennant
Abaddon Books Q&A - Peter Tennant
Some facts about Serpent’s Tail - Peter Tennant
Case Notes – book reviews - Peter Tennant
Electric Darkness – Column - Stephen Volk
Night's Plutonian Shore – Column - Mike O'Driscoll
Interfereference – Column - Christopher Fowler
Night's Plutonian Shore – Column - Mike O'Driscoll
Blood Spectrum – DVD/Blu-ray reviews - Tony Lee
Q & A with [REC] directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza – Tony Lee

Peter Tennant’s non fiction features Scott Sigler, Abaddon Books editor Jonathan Oliver and publisher Serpent’s Tail along with 15 book reviews. Tony Lee reviews 14 DVD/Blu-ray releases. Stephen Volk considers the commodification of horror in movies, Christopher Fowler ponders that easy access to a wide range of culture is not widening our views and Mike O’Driscoll pointedly does not review Junot Diaz’s “staggering, wise, funny and humane” ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’. And there's plenty of magnificent art by David Gentry.


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.
At time of posting Black Static’s next issue is #45, March 2015 and Paul Meloy has a novel due in October, ‘The Night Clock’.