Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:
Barb Goffman leans cozy until the bitter end in the “Crazy Cat Lady.” A horror novelist shares a first-person account of her downward spiral as her torture-porn tomes repel her friends and fuel her own paranoia. Goffman’s “A Year Without Santa Claus?” (AHMM Jan/Feb 2015) won the Agatha Award for best short story in 2015.
Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:
The sheriff of Lamar County tackles his first murder case since his election in 2012. Down-home but savvy, he nails the perp between visits to his uncle and aunt at the Choctaw Nursing Home in “Eb and Flo” by Josh Pachter. An affecting mash-up spun from elements of Pachter’s real-life past. Pachter is a frequent contributor to EQMM—his own stories and the translation of Dutch and Flemish work for EQMM’s Passport to Crime feature.
An excerpt from my review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:
Neighborhoods age along with their denizens. As they change, not all their residents adapt, like William, in Art Taylor’s “Fairy Tale.” William don’t like the new flock of school kids hanging around all the time—their attitudes and their—his word—entitled behavior. He don’t like the word old neither. But his kids are grown and long gone, his wife’s passed on, and if you saw him, you’d be hard-pressed to avoid the “O” word. Taylor takes you inside the man’s head so you can feel his rising ire first hand. With nothing else to occupy his grey matter, William can’t help but pick at the things that irk him, staring out at the street in front of his house. Almost like he was looking for trouble.
Contents
John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe: From the Cat’s Perch
Michael Bracken “Something Fishy”
Alan Orloff “Inseparable, Insufferable”
Julie Leo “Use of the Awkward Hand”
Janet Fox “The Timeline Murders” (verse)
Dayle A. Dermatis “Umberto Scolari and the Feast of Paradise”
Ramona DeFelice Long “Moe’s Seafood House”
Su Kopil “Mud Season”
Steve Liskow “Messin’ with the Kid”
Tais Teng “Assassin’s Scroll”
Cynthia Ward “Trouble in Mind”
Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 4 January 2019
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Editors: John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe
Production Team: Sam Cooper, Steve Coupe, Shawn Garrett, Karl Würf
Cover: Uncredited
6” x 9” 132 pages
POD $12.00 Kindle $3.99
Black Cat Mystery website
An excerpt from my review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:
Alan Orloff offers the opening gambit in this issue with “Getting Away.” Lloyd Birnbaum runs a one-man travel agency. Has for years. He does book travel for the sake of the rubes, but relocation, along with fresh identities for his criminal clientele is where his real fortunes lie. Orloff is the author of several novels—mysteries and thrillers. He garnered an Agatha nomination in 2010, and a Kindle Scout award for Running From the Past, in 2015.
An excerpt from my review of BCMM No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:
Editors John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe welcome their readers to the first edition of BCMM from their “The Cat’s Perch” introduction. “We won’t shy away from intense, dark fiction that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. Just as we won’t turn down the next amateur detective in the finest Agatha Christie tradition. Storytelling matters most.”
Black Cat Mystery Magazine’s debut includes an impressive list of contributors, many that will be familiar to readers of those bimonthly digests from Penny Publications.
Contents
John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe: From the Cat’s Perch
Michael Bracken “Suburbia”
Eve Fisher “The Sorority House”
J.M. Taylor “Tourist Season”
John M. Floyd “Diversions”
Charlie Drees “The List”
Peter W. J. Hayes “Something Certain”
Robb T. White “The Moment of Righting”
Ashley Lynch-Harris “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”
Charlie Hughes “The Target”
Charles Roland “Whale Watch”
James Michael Ullman “Road Hog” (Classic Reprint from EQMM Nov. 1957)
Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 3 Summer 2018
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Editors: John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe
Cover: Malchev/Fotolia
6” x 9” 124 pages
POD $10.00 Kindle (coming soon)
Wildside Press website
Contents
John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe: From the Cat’s Perch
Charlie Hughes “The Cleansing Soil”
Michael Bracken “Skirts”
Elizabeth Zelvin “A Disturbance in the Harem”
Shout Out to Art Taylor
Debra H. Goldstein “A Weighty Matter”
Steve Shrott “Buried Secrets”
Cynthia Benjamin “Jacob’s Ladder”
BK Stevens “Things Past”
Trey R. Barker “Thin Blood”
John M. Floyd “Two in the Bush”
John Hegenberger “The Bad Sleep”
Melba Marlett “The Second Mrs. Porter”
Black Cat Mystery Magazine #2 Spring 2018
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Editors: John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe
Cover: Prudkov/Fotolia
6” x 9” 138 pages
POD $10.00 Kindle $3.99
Wildside Press website
