This issue of the British Fantasy Award winning magazine Black Static has new stories with irresistible titles like 'The Demon Laplace' by Mark Rigney and 'Dizzy Land' by Andrew Hook plus Ray Cluley 's 'I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing', Gary McMahon's-'Remains' and Carole Johnstone's 'The Monster of Venice', columns by Christopher Fowler, Stephen Volk, Mike O'Driscoll; art by Ben Baldwin, Rik Rawling, Mark Pexton, Paul Milne; genre news & book reviews by Peter Tennant; DVD/Blu-ray reviews by Tony Lee.