VASTARIEN is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. Contents Commencement Joanna Parypinski Patent for an Artificial Uterus Max D. Stanton The Crafter of the World Ashley Dioses Bequeathing the World to Insects Christopher Mountenay Trigger Julie Travis The Master Gardener Nicole Vasari Parasitic Castration Amelia Gorman The November House Charles Wilkinson Lacan on Lynch: Viewing Twin Peaks through a Psychoanalytic Lens Rob F. Martin soul of a mannequin Justyna Bendyk Shirley Jackson and That Old Black Magic Jill Hand How to be a Horror Writer Tim Waggoner Cover Art by Yves Tourigny. Book design by Anna Trueman. Internal art by Giuseppe Balestra, Ksenia Korniewska, Serhiy Krykun, Carl Lavoie, and Øyvind Lauvdahl. Co-Editors-In-Chief, Matt Cardin and Jon Padgett. Senior Editor, Dagny Paul.

Vastarien, Vol. 1, Issue 2

Literature & Fiction

Travis, Julie

Dioses, Ashley

Stanton, Max D.

Parypinski, Joanna

Press, Grimscribe

Mountenay, Christopher

Vasari, Nicole

History & Criticism

Grimscribe Press

For fourteen years, Dax Howard has lived with the mystery of his mother’s disappearance. He’s tried to put it behind him: getting out of his dying rural hometown, going to college, studying astrophysics. But his father couldn’t get over his loss, wallowing in alcoholism and conspiracy theories about the traveling carnival that he believes kidnapped his wife. Dax never thought he would return home, but when his father dies, he has no choice but to face his past—and the possibility that his father may have been right all along…What he finds in Conjunction, Nebraska is a bloodthirsty sheriff, a collection of missing teenagers, and a death-worshipping cult led by a strange girl intent on summoning an ancient being down from the stars. If Dax wants to finish what his father started, he’ll have to uncover the secrets of the cult and find the carnival himself… unless the carnival finds him first.Cover art by Wendy Saber Core

DARK CARNIVAL

Genre Fiction

Independent Legions Publishing

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