Vastarien: A Literary Journal 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. Another double issue! Cover art by Anna Trueman and over 300 pages of all new stories, articles, lyric essays, poetry, hybrid pieces and visual art. Contributors include Hailey Piper, Carson Winter, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Greg Sisco, Joanna Parypinski, Dejan Ognjanovic, Christi Nogle, Kurt Fawver, Ivy Grimes, Clint Smith, and many more!

Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol. 4, issue 2

Literature & Fiction

Piper, Hailey

History & Criticism

Grimscribe Press

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
five dreams of the red tower s. j. bagley
The Rules and Regulations of White Pines, Vermont Kurt Fawver
Long Time No See F. J. Bergmann
Richard Gavin: The Nature of Horror S. T. Joshi
The Mad German Michael Uhall
I Feel Better Now Brooke Warra
The Glow at Home Rayna Waxhead
The Ghosts of Their Guns: Magical Realism in the Fiction of Nadia Bulkin S. L. Edwards
Chronology of a Burn Tonya Liburd
The Blind Opera Sean M. Thompson
Nightmares Désirée Zamorano
"The Clown Puppet" -- A Case Study Michael Cisco
Nightly Senses Emmie Bristow
The Nightmare Man L'Erin Ogle
Ennigaldi Sam Schreiber
Trauma Narrating Dr. Raymond Thoss
For She is Falling John Linwood Grant
Contributors

Vastarien, Vol. 1, Issue 3

Vastarien: A Literary Journal 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.ContentsVenio Gemma FilesThe Lord is an Active Shooter Fiona Maeve GeistThe Sisters F.J. BergmannHorror Religiosus The Dark Passions of Mark Samuels David PeakThe Curse of the Biblical Magi Sepehr Goshayeshi Aharesia Natalia TheodoridouSilhouette Golems S. E. CaseyOrchid Architecture K. A. OppermanAll the Stage is a World Forrest AguirreBurger Shop Jayaprakash SatyamurthyRat King Lia Swope MitchellVanpool C. M. MullerMagic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gwendolyn KisteThe Ageless Agelasts Rhys HughesIn the Way of Eslan Mendeghast Farah Rose SmithEffigies of Former Supervisors Matthew M. BartlettContributors

Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1

Files, Gemma

VASTARIEN: A LITERARY JOURNAL 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

Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 2

Snyder, Lucy A.

From the author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales comes this devastating collection of fifteen stories and essays. A father's desperate search for his missing child leads to a cosmic haunted realm. A woman returns to her childhood home to find a past preserved in a semblance of life. A young man and his canine companion find themselves in the heart of an occult government exercise deep within a Pacific Northwest forest. An elderly man is subject to mysterious experiments as he descends into dementia. And, in the title novella, a forensic anthropologist is called to the site of the mass suicide of an anti-natalist cult intent on communicating with Nature.

The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature

Slatsky, Christopher

Literary

Harry Meyers is ill-equipped to handle funeral planning of any sort. If he had a goldfish and that goldfish died, he would probably find a way to bungle the flushing. But when Harry's mother passes away without having made any arrangements, and he's the only surviving next of kin, Harry is called on to navigate a grimly hilarious, half-real world of morgues, morticians, fetishes, and cosmic disaster. Transgressive and bleakly funny, terrifying but surprisingly humane, The Half-Freaks showcases Nicole Cushing's ever-evolving take on the Weird.

The Half-Freaks

Cushing, Nicole

Genre Fiction

Vastarien: A Literary Journal 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.

Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 2, Issue 3

Annie, Neugebauer

Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1

In That Endlessness, Our End

Winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection\n﻿﻿﻿COME CLOSER, FRIEND. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY.\nHeard the one about the Airbnb that eats your dreams or the iron-crowned king who preys on his own bloodline from the air, still smoldering centuries after being burnt alive? How about the cloudy antique bottle you can wish your excess rage inside, or that crooked alley down which something waits to replace your disappointing child with a far more pleasant facsimile? We all know the truth, especially in times like these-in an anxiety-ridden, sleepless world such as ours, it's only ever our very worst dreams that come true. Here streets empty out and people pull themselves apart like amoebas, breeding murderous doppelgangers from their own flesh; houses haunt, ideas possess and a cold and alien moon stares down, whispering that it's time to spawn. New myths rise and ancient evils descend. From the seemingly mundane terrors of a city just like yours to all the most dark and distant places of a truly terrible universe, nothing is as it seems...not even that dimly-recalled cinematic memory you've been chasing all these years, the one you think might be just something you stumbled upon while flipping through channels after midnight. The one that still disturbs you enough to raise a cold sweat all over your body, whenever you try to will its details clear.\nHot on the heels of her 2018 This Is Horror Award-winning short story collection Spectral Evidence, critically horror author Gemma Files compiles fifteen more of her most startling recent nightmares-a creepily seductive downward spiral of dark poetry and existential dread, entirely suitable to the slow apocalypse going on all around us. So take your mind off your troubles and send it somewhere the rules still operate, if only to punish those who violate them.

United States

Vastarien: A Literary Journal 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. Double issue! Original cover art and 13 original, full color illustrations by living legend Harry 0. Morris. 25 works of fiction by Michael Griffin, Cody Goodfellow, LC von Hessen, Sarah L. Johnson, John Claude Smith, Casilda Ferrante, Lora Gray, Matthew M. Bartlett, and others! 2 Nonfiction articles by Alex Skopic and John Palisano. 9 poems by Sonya Taaffe, Rae White, Dimitry Blizniuk and others. All new recurring column by a special guest!

Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol. 3, issue 2

Morris, Harry O.

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