Black Static: Transmissions from beyond #7 (October/November 2008). Horror magazine. Edited by Andy Cox (64 pages). Published six times a year by TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Cambs, CB6 2LB, UK. www.ttapress.com. One issue: £3.99. Six issue subscription: £21 UK; £24 Europe; £27 elsewhere. Contents of this issue: “White Noise” compiled by Peter Tennant (news); “The Reason for the Season” by Bruce Holland Rogers (fiction); “Interference” by Christopher Fowler (nonfiction); “The Hodag” by Trent Hergenrader (fiction); “Electric Darkness” by Stephen Volk (nonfiction); “Blood God Blood” by Eric Gregory (fiction); “Night’s Plutonian Shore” by Mike O’Driscoll (nonfiction); “The Talent Girl” by Daniel Kaysen (fiction); “Case Notes” by Peter Tennant (book reviews); “Pages from a Broken Book” by Tony Richards (fiction); “Blood Spectrum” by Tony Lee (DVD reviews and contests); “The Deep Walker” by Alison J. Littlewood (fiction); “Bait” by David Sakmyster (fiction)

Interzone #218 (October 2008). Science fiction and fantasy magazine. Edited by Andy Cox, Jetse de Vries, Andy Hedgecock, and David Mathew (64 pages). Published six times a year by TTA Press, 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Cambs, CB6 2LB, UK. www.ttapress.com. One issue: £3.99. Six issue subscription: £21 UK; £24 Europe; £27 elsewhere. Contents of this issue: Editorial; “Ansible Link” by David Langford (news); “Forgotten Gardens…” by Andy Hedgecock (interview with Chris eckett); “Poppyfields” by Chris Beckett (fiction); “Greenland” by Chris Beckett (fiction); “Rat Island” by Chris Beckett (fiction); “If” by Daniel Akselrod & Lenny Royter (fiction); “His Master’s Voice” by Hannu Rajaniemi (fiction); “Corner of the Circle” by Tim Lees (fiction); Interviews with Charles Stross and Gareth L. Powell; Book reviews by Ian Sales, Paul F. Cockburn, Mike Cobley, Lawrence Osborn, Juliet McKenna, Rick Kleffel, Paul Kincaid, and Iain Emsley; “Mutant Popcorn” by Nick Lowe (film reviews); “Laser Fodder” by Tony Lee (DVD reviews and contests)

Star*Line, the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Volume 31, Number 5 (September/October 2008). Newsletter/poetry magazine. Edited by Marge Simon (28 pages). Published by The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA), c/o Treasurer Samantha Henderson, PO Box 4846, Covina, CA 91723 USA. sfpoetry.com. One year’s dues include six issue subscription: $21 (US/Canada/Mexico); $25 (elsewhere). Poetry contributors to this issue: Mike Allen, Robert Borski, G. Sutton Breidling, Tyree Campbell, Carolyn Clink, P.S. Cottier, M. Frost, Wade German, James Gianforti, Amy R. Handler, Geoffrey A. Landis, Kurt MacPhearson, Karen L. Newman, Oino Saki, Ann K. Schwader, Dana Stamps II, Nancy Ellis Taylor, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, John Tumlin, and JoSelle Vanderhooft. Features by: Anthony Bernstein, Edward Cox, Jennifer Crow, Denise Dumars, John Garrison, Deborah P. Kolodji, David Kopaska-Merkel, and Marge Simon. This issue also includes Dwarf Stars 2008 edited by Deborah P. Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson (20 pages). Dwarf Stars is the SFPA’s annual collection of “the best speculative poems of ten lines of less”. Contributors to this volume include: Duane & Cathy Ackerson, Linda D. Addison, Mike Allen, Donald R. Anderson, Dave Bacharach, Greg Beatty, Bruce Boston, Lisa M. Bradley, James S. Dorr, John J. Dunphy, M. Frost, Joshua Gage, Tom Galusha, John Garrison, Sarah Glass, Andrea Gradidge [ushi], Marilyn Hazelton, Berrien C. Henderson, Charlee Jacob, M. Kei, Bridget Kelley-Lossada, S.A. Kelly, Mariko Kitakubo, Deborah P. Kolodji, David W. Landrum, Roddy Lumsden, Jeannie Martin, Drew Morse, Kristine Ong Muslim, Karen L. Newman, Stuart Nunn, Iulian Olaru, Kiwanda Paul, Terrie Leigh Relf, Karen A. Romanko, Teri Santitoro, Ann K. Schwader, Greg Schwartz, J.E. Stanley, Sonya Taaffe, Arlene Teck, Cor van den Heuvel, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Stephen M. Wilson, and Jeffrey Woodward.

Studies in the Fantastic Summer 2008 (#1). Scholarly journal about fantasy and supernatural literature and other arts. Edited by S.T. Joshi (128 pages). Published by University of Tampa Press, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606 USA. Single copy: $12. Two issue subscription: $20 (US); $40 (outside the US). utpress.ut.edu. Contents of this issue: Editorial by S.T. Joshi; “Apparition of a Genre: The Psychical Case Study in the Pre-Modernist British Short Story” by George M. Johnson; “Dark Fantasy and Compulsion in Henrich Marschner’s Der Vampyr” by Robert H. Waugh; “Two Weird Tales: ‘Passenger Bastion’ & ‘Into Your Tenement I’ll Creep’” by Jonathan Thomas; “October” by Fred Phillips (new verse); “Ancient Echoes (Chaco Canyon)” by Ann K. Schwader (new verse); “Recall” by Leigh Blackmore (new verse); “The Icy Depths of Robert Aickman’s ‘Niemandswasser’” by Philip Challinor; “‘Through the Gates of Darkness’: The Cosmopolitan Gothic of J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker” by John Langan; “A Spider in the Distance” by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.; “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror” by Anita Letitia Barbauld (originally published in 1773); “Out in the Dark” by Edward Thomas (vintage verse); “The Wharf of Dreams” by Edwin Markham (vintage verse); “The Jongleur” by Madison Cawein (vintage verse); “‘Every Night a Magic Door’: An Approach to the Weird Verse of Victor Daley” by Phillip A. Ellis; “Barbarism vs. Civilization: Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft in Their Correspondence” by S.T. Joshi.