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

There's something sinister in the mountain, letting monsters loose upon the world. Civilization is collapsing; the lands are submerged in shadow. Soon, the darkness will consume the countryside, leaving but one path through the void - a path that cuts across the Dark Frontier.This western wasteland sprawls across the ruins of what were once the great cities of humankind. Now, beneath the looming devastation, standing on the precipice of extinction, man finds himself driven by temptation and survival to steal and to kill. The innocent huddle in the shades and crevices of civilization's cemetery, praying to the deafened gods of faded faiths to help them make it through the apocalypse. Then the dark guardians of the new world rise from the deep, stomping over the land, and feeding on the twisted souls of those who survived the first cataclysm. In its last stand for survival, humanity will tear itself into fragments and then scatter in the winds of war, famine, and fire. Regimes meant to protect the populace, lone heroes, and those determined to make it through the end times will rise and fall, live and die, and cross the broken prairies and scorched lands only to arrive in cities reduced to rubble, crawling with killers and creatures that devour the ghosts of man. They will have no choice but to return to the shattered wilderness of the Dark Frontier.It is out there, beyond the edges of dead worlds, past the graveyards where the grand plans of man now wither and rot, where all shall find their end, where humanity's swan song will be swallowed by the black winds of chaos spreading from the hills and mountains. Trapped in the shadows that surround the world, as the wall of the black void closes in, man's revelation comes down to one question: is the evil out there where the world is dying, or was the Dark Frontier inside us all along?The Pale Horse has come, and it carries the Black Angel. Get ready to ride.

The Dark Frontier

Smith, Douglas

Lothian, Jack

Floyd, Jacob

Rosamilia, Armand

Zumpe, Lee Clark

Bernard, Charles R.

Conover, Stuart

Campbell, Aubrey

Frost, Cassidy

Genre Fiction

Wild West 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

Independent Legions Publishing

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