Black Static

Previously titled The Third Alternative, founded in 1994 and twice winner of the British Fantasy Award and winner of the International Horror Guild Award. Edited by Andy Cox and published by TTA Press.

Black Static #4

By Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ⋅ April 17, 2008

If acoustic static is white noise—a random signal with a flat power spectral density—then perhaps it follows that Black Static or, forgive the synoeciosis, black white noise, presents a primary inversion, a constantly fluctuating power spectral density. The fourth issue of this stylish horror magazine delivers six signal bursts, and I’m happy to report that […]

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Black Static #3

By Paul Abbamondi ⋅ March 5, 2008

Black Static is a very stylized magazine, with an emphasis strongly put on layout, artwork, and design. On occasion, the white font against black background proves to be too straining on the eyes, but otherwise it’s a well put together product, offering a solid number of dark, edgy short stories that blur genre and subject […]

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Black Static #2, December 2007

By Val Grimm ⋅ December 17, 2007

Black Static serves up an intriguing blend of fiction and essays this month, wrapped up in a dark design whose aesthetic is caught between eras, a wobbly-legged lovechild of a ‘zine and a website. Its pages are replete with Photoshop art, rusty backgrounds, and the simulacra of whiteout, creases, underexposed patches, scratches, sharpie annotations, Polaroids, […]

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