Horror

The Dark by Scott Bradley and Peter Giglio "An ass-kicking one-night-only L.A. Apocalypse of the soul." -- John Skipp, from his introduction. Ben Pilot was a TV star, until some bad decisions cost him his career, wife, and child. Now broke and alone, he manages a video store in the shadows of Hollywood. But tonight, the shadows just woke up, crawling across the face of Los Angeles. It's a sentient Darkness that can shut down your power, tear you to pieces, or peer deep into your soul. If Ben ... more info>>

Daniel Peck is a modern-day vampire, over one hundred years old. He succumbs to his transformation on the Lusitania when the beautiful and ancient Veronica, Queen of the Undead, beguiles him. Daniel survives the sinking of the Lusitania, and another disaster when the Hindenburg explodes. Years later Daniel is a middle school substitute teacher in Baltimore, Maryland. He feeds off the energy of four students and turns them into zombie-like creatures who subsist on human remains. Daniel kills peop... more info>>

The swamp belongs to them. Humans are only prey. Deep in the overgrown swamps of Florida, where humans rarely dare to enter, lives a race of creatures long thought to be only the stuff of legend. They walk upright but are stronger, taller and more brutal than any man. And when a small boat of tourists, held captive by a fleeing criminal, accidentally kills one of the swamp dwellers' young, the creatures are filled with a terrifyingly human emotion--a merciless lust for vengeance that will paint... more info>>

The truth will not stay buried. During World War II, Germany's H�rtgen Forest was a killing field. But there was something worse than the enemy in the mist. An ancient power was waiting to prey upon those who opposed the Third Reich. Jack Chambers survived the war, but even after all these years, he still has nightmares about H�rtgen--and the unholy horrors he battled there. Now he is determined to reveal the truth behind his platoon's massacre and entrusts the task to his grandson, Sean. B... more info>>

What would you do if you turned on the news tomorrow morning and learned there was a Zombie Apocalypse? There are at least seven people who would not be surprised. In fact, they've been waiting their whole lives for this event. These over-educated, under-employed misfits have spent years watching old horror films about zombies, playing zombie video games and discussing what they would do if zombies invaded. They are ready. In the real world, they are labeled as freaks and outcasts. They have d... more info>>

This is the E edition of the first of the fabulous new look (in print), new size Black Static, #29, with its gloss laminated cover, proper spine and 96 pages of fiction, reviews, columns and comment. Here you'll find fiction from: Nina Allan with 'Sunshine', Renee Carter Hall with 'Horseman', ex movie star Baph Tripp with 'Chodpa' (he was Louis Tripp in 1987's 'The Gate'), Ray Cluley with 'Shark! Shark!' and Tim Lees with 'The Counterweight'. Plus our TV reviewer Mike O'Driscoll runs his rule ov... more info>>

No one would ever forget the night the carnival came to town. Vincent Carlson used to have a good life. He lived on a small farm in Doverton, Wisconsin, with his loving teenage daughter, Leanne. His biggest worries were tending his corn crop and being a good dad to Leanne. But that was before the seedy little carnival came to town, bringing with them the tiny humanoid creatures called "Haunchies". For Vincent Carlson--and the whole town of Doverton--that was the night everything changed.

They're waiting for you in the woods. They've lived in the woods and cornfields for as long as anyone can remember. Small, humanoid creatures with sharp teeth and grasping hands. The people in what's left of the nearby town live in fear. They've learned that if they let the creatures take what they want, they won't be attacked. An uneasy peace has reigned. But no more. The leader of the creatures has decided his kind will be dormant no longer. To survive, they must kill. They will satisfy their... more info>>

In a remote compound in Wyoming a geneticist created the first female human-wolf hybrid and adopted her as his daughter. When Melina Salinger discovers who and what she really is she escapes her father's domain and sets out into the wilderness--any other life would be better than the one that was forced upon her. Seth Anson, a ranger stationed at the Wheeler Ridge watchtower, is trying to get over a bitter divorce--working in the majestic Shoshone forest is the only way he knows how to get on w... more info>>

Some people search their whole lives for proof in the existence of something beyond this world. What would you do if you had proof? Are you really ready for it?

Shortly after her grandmother's passing, Sirabelle is notified that she is the beneficiary of her family's rambling old house. There's just one catch- it's located in the sleepy little town of Tulip, Georgia. Soon after she arrives, she begins receiving unusual and cryptic messages from beyond. She finds she must discover the answers to a myriad of questions.

Today is the last day of Glen Novak's life. Five years after the end of the world, the few remaining humans are barricaded in a small vacation town on the California coast, beset by hordes of the undead. A single bite turns a man into a walking corpse. There's no cure and no hope. Someone made sure Novak was bitten and now he has one day to put things in order, protect his people and, most importantly, exact revenge. Reviews Joseph Conrad's character Kurtz said 'The horror! The horror!' ... more info>>

Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today's up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. One man falls in love with an ancient monster, another becomes enchanted by a voice that drives him to a frenzy of self-punishment, and another can't understand three very odd days he's spending with his girlfriend. Award-winning author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and acclaimed author Lee Barwood sends the Sigh... more info>>

You'll die laughing "Grab your honey, those wacky, wise-cracking guys are back in town! Yes, you gotta love'em -- The Sax Brothers! Whoa, mama, keep your daughters home tonight! Coco, Plato, and Bruno, the kings of cut up, the merry men of mayhem. Watch your favorite psychos do their infamous side-splitting, killer routine, Hotel of Horrors. Better skip room service! Excerpt: It's Elysee Gardens, about 1927, '28. Made the headlines, you know. You're here on the secret floor, the one that has no... more info>>

She yearned to go beyond... but some curtains should never be opened. When Rae broached the idea of visiting an underground sex club, Mark didn't blink. He should have. Because NightWhere is not your usual swingers club. Where it's held on a given night?only those who receive the red invitations know. Soon Rae is indulging in her lust for pain. And Mark is warned by a beautiful stranger to take his wife away before it's too late. But it's already too late. Because Rae hasn't come home. Now Mar... more info>>

All it needs to live again is fresh blood! Myles Carver is dead. But his estate, Watermere, lives on, waiting for a new Carver to move in. Myles's wife, Annabel, is dead too, but she is also waiting, lying in her grave in the woods. For nearly half a century she was responsible for a nightmarish reign of terror, and she's not prepared to stop now. She is hungry to live again?and her unsuspecting nephew, Paul, will be the key. Julia Merrow has a secret almost as dark as Watermere's. But when sh... more info>>

Some say the most terrible thing that could happen is to be eaten alive but there is something far more horrible than that. Based on actual Native American folklore of the Mohave, a demon escapes a cluster of stars called, The Seven Sisters and comes to earth on a meteor. The Mohave are in peril of this demon, Kwayu who eats its victims alive and takes their souls. They ask the Seven Sisters for intervention. The Sisters hear the cry of the desert people and build a prison to house Kwayu called ... more info>>

It's The End of the World as You NEVER Knew It Seminary student Peter Barnes and his senior friend Harvey Connor didn't expect the last days to include neon meteor showers, unexplainable mutated creatures, or that they'd be housing an all-girl rock band. Thinking they must be the last people on earth, Peter's understanding of all he had been taught becomes rapidly overthrownâ?¦especially when a young, ghost-like figure calls him and an offbeat army on a mission to go up against a most unusual fo... more info>>

Upon a dark and blood-filled hour, humanity's doom will rise to powerâ?¦ Werewolves are real. They haunt the woods of North America, feeding on the bodies of humans stupid enough to blunder across their paths. Once rogue and uncoordinated, the rise of their goddess Alsvinth has brought them all together, with one goal: destroy as much of the species as necessary to enslave them within meat farms, to feed the werewolf army taking over the world. Olivia, a werewolf from western Canada, and her bro... more info>>

Issue 28 of British Fantasy Award winning magazine Black Static contains stories by Carole Johnstone, Jon Ingold, Priya Sharma, Joel Lane, Daniel Kaysen; comment columns by Christopher Fowler, Stephen Volk; art by Mark Pexton, Warwick Fraser-Coombe, David Gentry, Richard Wagner; book reviews by Peter Tennant, plus an interview with Christopher Fowler; DVD/Blu-ray reviews by Tony Lee; television reviews by Mike O'Driscoll and genre news from Peter Tennant. The cover is a crop from Warwick Fraser... more info>>

If you're willing to unlock the gates of hell, be prepared. Four charred bodies in the middle of a field. The evidence suggested a ritual killing. The body of a young constable with his head smashed to a pulp. He was investigating with his colleagues and he was on the other side of the oak tree from the four charred bodies. No one saw or heard anything! A registered charity collector, bloodless and deflated, stretched out on the driveway of the house of a famous, well-known, local writer. With e... more info>>

In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into Personal, Political, and Metaphysical terrors―stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In "I Walked with Fidel," a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; "Jumper" focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past; while in "The Coming of Christ the Joker," the light-hearted ba... more info>>

From acclaimed writer George Zebrowski, a tale of urban terror. What do you tell yourself when impossible things begin to happen? What can you say? You're a police detective, but maybe you're just not good enough and that's what you have to admit, whether you like it or not. You see evidence of things that can't be real, but you just don't observe well enough to explain it in any natural way. Can you ask rational questions and still be crazy? Does it help any that you know your mind is gone? Yo... more info>>

Black Static contains groundbreaking dark fiction by some of the world's best writers and most talented newcomers and this issue (#27) has stories from 2012 BFS award nominee Simon Bestwick, Gord Sellar, Jacob Ruby, Stephen Bacon and V.H. Leslie. Also present are the innovative artwork, hard-hitting features and expert book & DVD reviews expected of this award winning horror and dark fantasy short story magazine. Many recognised authors started their careers in TTA publications and new ones cont... more info>>

Only one priest can battle the ultimate evil! An evil as ancient as time itself has arisen and taken root in New York City. Father Michael, the mysterious undead defender of the Church, answers the call to action from the Vatican, while Cain, a malevolent wraith that feeds on fear and blood, has taken the life and form of the city's mayor and readies a demonic army to ignite the apocalypse. With an unlikely ally, Father Michael will prepare for the grim confrontation as he grapples with his sw... more info>>