Lucian Poll's Collection

[bookworm 1]

If you don't post pictures from the con we will be upset... so please post a few. Love the books hope to see them again soon 'll signed.

Thanks, guys. I'm glad you like them. They're all paperbacks save for the rather domineering NOS4R2. I have to agree, Echo City has a very striking cover. I found Coldbrook another one that leapt from the shelves.

I'll be sure to flaunt the title pages of any copies I get signed on this here thread. If you can stomach what would be the literary equivalent of holiday snaps, I may even post a few scenes from the con.

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks, guys.

I'm quite the opposite on the Nevills, Lincoln, in that I've got 'Last Days' and 'The Ritual' on my TBR pile! The Dog-Faced Gods trilogy has a lot of things going for it - books two and three are great page-turners, and there is a real sense of closure to the trilogy - but there were a few big things I had to turn a blind-eye to. I'm composing a review for my Goodreads page/blog, but at the moment it's comparable in length to the books themselves.

I agree, Squire, the Mieville covers are a little ho-hum front on. They don't show on the picture I took, but the spines of each book are a vibrant shade of whatever colour is used on the front, which is quite eyecatching when placed on a bookshelf.

[srboone]

Nice editions. Especially love the Mievilles, though I don't care for those particular covers.

[Lincoln]

Nice to see another Adam Nevill fan, Lucian. I recently read 'The Ritual', and I'm 3/4 of the way through 'Last Days'. 'Apartment 16' is on it's way to me, and should land next week.
I've only read a couple of shorts by Sarah Pinborough, but I really like her style.

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks, guys. I'm glad you like them. They're all paperbacks save for the rather domineering NOS4R2. I have to agree, Echo City has a very striking cover. I found Coldbrook another one that leapt from the shelves.

I'll be sure to flaunt the title pages of any copies I get signed on this here thread. If you can stomach what would be the literary equivalent of holiday snaps, I may even post a few scenes from the con.

[peteOcha]

Echo City does have an awesome cover! Is that HC or PB?

And nice pile! Would looooooooove to get a signature from China and Joe!!!

[Ben Staad]

Great looking additions. I love (love, love, love) the cover for Echo City.

[Lucian Poll]

Oh, lordy. Then there's this little lot...

[Lucian Poll]

So with the World Fantasy Convention less than three months away, let's have a butchers at my signing pile, shall we?







At this rate I'll need to book a second hotel room...

[Lucian Poll]

(Towards the end of the year, that is!)

[Lucian Poll]

And a piccy for issues 29-32. A smaller format, but a cool redesign and some really excellent covers courtesy of Ben Baldwin and Richard Wagner.



Issue 29
Sunshine by Nina Allan
Horseman by Renee Carter Hall
Chodpa by Baph Tripp
Shark! Shark! by Ray Cluley
The Counterweight by Tim Lees
Includes Q&A with Nicholas Royle

Issue 30
The Pig Farm by James Cooper
All Change by Ray Cluley
The Wayside Voices by Daniel Mills
Recurrence by Susan Kim
Sometimes I Get A Good Feeling by Carole Johnstone
The Orphan And The Bad, Bad Monkey by David Kortok

Issue 31
Barbary by Jackson Kuhl
Sister by Sean Padraic Birnie
The Perils Of War According To The Common People Of Hansom Street by Steven Pirie
The Things That Get You Through by Steven J. Dines
Skein And Bone by V. H. Leslie
Two Houses Away by James Cooper

Issue 32
The Withering by Tim Casson
Love As Deep As Bones by Ilan Lerman
The Death Drive Of Rita, Nee Carina by Ray Cluley
The Anatomist's Mnemonic by Prima Sharma
Black Sun by Drew Rhys White
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Z------ by Lavie Tidhar
Bedtime Story by Steve Rasnic Tem
Includes Q&A with Steve Rasnic Tem

I've also been buying most every genre fiction book I can find in Waterstones lately, and a few others besides. I'll post a few in due course.

I'm also attending this year's World Fantasy Convention, so will hopefully have some cool autographed copies to flaunt.

[Lucian Poll]

Sorry, guys, I've not updated this in a while. Here are a couple of posts that bring the Black Static covers up to date. Hopefully I'll have issue 33 slapping my doormat tomorrow.



Issue 25
About The Dark by Alison Littlewood
The Curtain Parts by Christopher Fowler
The Travellers Stay by Ray Cluley
Best. Summer. Ever. by Nathaniel Tapley
The Holy Spear by Barbara A. Barnett
Includes Q&A with D.F. Lewis

Issue 26
I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing by Ray Cluley
Remains by Gary McMahon
The Demon Laplace by Mark Rigney
The Monster of Venice by Carole Johnstone
Dizzy Land by Andrew Hook

Issue 27
The Churn by Simon Bestwick
Empty Of Words, The Page by Gord Sellar
The Little Things by Jacob Ruby
Family Tree by V. H. Leslie
Cuckoo Spit by Stephen Bacon
Includes Q&A with Alison Littlewood

Issue 28
The Pest House by Carole Johnstone
Cracks by Jon Ingold
The Ballad Of Boomtown by Priya Sharma
The Messenger by Joel Lane
Pale Limbs by Daniel Kaysen
Includes Q&A with Christopher Fowler

[bookworm 1]

#15 and #18 both are rather disturbing to me more then the others.Very nice additions.

[Lucian Poll]

Okay, peeps, here are the last set of Black Static covers for a little while as I'm waiting for two back issues to arrive. These covers aren't quite as dynamic as the previous 18, opting instead to show a sliver of artwork found in the magazine, but as all good horror stories will tell you it's what's inside that matters.



Issue 19
They Will Not Rest by Simon Clark
Chain Reaction by Steve Rasnic Tem
The Sleep Mask by Joel Lane
Beachcombing by Ray Cluley
The Wound Dresser by Lavie Tidhar
Includes Q&A with Stephen Jones

Issue 20
The Compartments Of Hell by Paul Meloy and Sarah Pinborough
Going Home, Ugly Stick In Hand by Nate Southard
The Covered Doll by Norman Prentiss
The Wounded House by Barbara A. Barnett
At Night, When The Demons Come by Ray Cluley

Issue 21
Ulterior Design by V. H. Leslie
Pins And Needles by Ray Cluley
Water by Maura McHugh
Extraneous Invokat by Ed Grabianowski
Cushing by James Cooper
Includes Q&A with Angela Slatter

Issue 22
The Salt of Eliza by Alan Wall
Durgen's Party by Tim Lees
Black Feathers by Alison J. Littlewood
This Is Mary's Moon by Steven Pirie
Child by Simon Kurt Unsworth
Includes Q&As with Steven Pirie and Tim Lees

Issue 23
Time Keeping by V. H. Leslie
For Their Own Ends by Joel Lane
Electric Dreams by Carole Johnstone
Hail by Daniel Kaysen
The Harvesting Of Jackson Cade by Robert Davies
Includes Q&A with Tom Fletcher

Issue 24
Recently Used by Ramsey Campbell
Dermot by Simon Bestwick
How The Sixties Ended by Tim Lees
Still Life by Simon McLaffery
A Summer's Day by K. Harding Stalter
Includes Q&A with Kaaron Warren

[Lucian Poll]

Thanks again, guys. I'm glad you're enjoying the Black Static covers. There are a couple of humdingers in this post too, specfically issues #13 and #14. (I'd also recommend checking out covers from past issues of their sister magazine Interzone. Some of them are simply stunning.)

I'm also glad to have given you a few flashbacks, TJ. Putting The Unexplained posts together was a lot of fun and something of a trip down memory lane for me too! In fact parts of it influenced my Cemetery Dance submission, Flood Warning. (Keep them fingers, toes, arms, legs and eyes crossed for me, folks!)

Okay, I've hit 60K on the NaNo novel so I think I'll wind down with a few more covers, this time #13 - #18:



Issue 13
Cuckoos by Tim Lees
The Shadow Keeper by Kim Lakin-Smith
Dead Loss by Carole Johnstone
Some Of Them Fell by Joel Lane
My Secret Children by James Cooper
Includes Q&A with Joel Lane

Issue 14
We, Who Live In The Wood by Paul Finch
The Eleventh Day by Christopher Fowler
Hootchie Cootchie Man by Maurice Broaddus
Survivor's Guilt by Roseanne Rabinowitz
Teen Spirit by Gary McMahon
Includes Q&A with Gary McMahon

Issue 15
Eight Small Men by James Cooper
The Knitted Child by Simon Kurt Unsworth
Maximum Darkness by Alan Scott Laney
Babylon's Burning by Daniel Kaysen
Death By Water by Sarah Singleton
Includes Q&A with Alexandra Sokoloff

Issue 16
The Overseer by Tim Casson
Extreme Latitude by M. G. Preston
One Last Wild Waltz by Mike O'Driscoll
The Empty Spaces by Alison J. Littlewood
The Moon Will Look Strange by Lynda E. Rucker
Includes Q&A with Sarah Pinborough

Issue 17
Zombie Cabana Boy by Suzanne Palmer
Three-Legged Bird by Vylar Kaftan
The Lady In Tigris by Daniel Kaysen
Faces In Walls by John Shirley
+ 10 winning flash fiction stories from Christopher Fowler & Maura McHugh's Campaign For Real Fear
Includes Q&A with John Connolly

Issue 18
Orinoco by Nina Allan
Between A Rock And A Hard Place by Carole Johnstone
A Man Of Ice And Sorrow by Simon Jurt Unsworth
The Obscure Bird by Nicholas Royle
Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us by Mercurio D. Riviera
+ 10 more winning flash fiction stories from the Campagin For Real Fear
Includes Q&A with Adam Nevill

If any of the issues pique your interest you might like to know that many of them are still available from Black Static's website: http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/backissues/ or from BBR Online: http://www.bbr-online.co.uk/catalogu...ckStatic.shtml.

I shall return with some more covers soon. Laters!