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VASTARIEN: Volume 3, Issue 2 — DOUBLE ISSUE


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Vastarien Vol. 3, Issue 2 – Contents

Our first double issue! Original cover art and 13 original, full color illustrations by living legend Harry 0. Morris.

 

Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood

Year in White
Alex Jennings

Heath Crawler
Sam Hicks

Homeownership and You
Kurt Fawver

Roscoe’s Malefic Delights
LC von Hessen

Konrad
Rhonda Pressley Veit

your AI girlfriend named “it”
Rae White

I Wake Up and Remember Myself
Michael Griffin

The Psychic Surgeon
Cody Goodfellow

Stoneborn
Nina Shepardson

Her Lullaby
Casilda Ferrante

Gunfire and Brimstone
Alicia Hilton

Win Big
Carson Winter

[Applause]
Joshua Plack

A Spectre Haunting Detroit: On Corporate Horror and Historical Materialism
Alex Skopic

Theory of Forms
Sarah L. Johnson

There’s Something Wrong with Henry
Eddie Generous

Lessons in Etymology for the New Human
Korbin Jones

Secret Voice of Fire
Casilda Ferrante

Drinking from the Incantation Bowl
Sonya Taaffe

You Are the Arm
J.A.W. McCarthy

Music for a Peripheral Companion
Timothy G. Huguenin

Deprimer
Mike Thorn

APOCTATRYPTAMIN®
T. M. Morgan

Brood Five
Lora Gray

Hecatomb
Tiffany Morris

Grooming my Grandfather
David Stevens

Dear Will
Tim Major

Death Doll
Roberta Gould

Picturing Her Hands
Ivy Grimes

The Hole in the Wall is Oblivion
John Claude Smith

Phases of the Shadow
Jessica Ann York

The Inexhaustible Rhyme of Nature
Dmitry Blizniuk

Music for a Peripheral Companion
Timothy G. Huguenin

Oh the Beautiful Stink
Matthew M. Bartlett

On the Adaptation of “The Frolic” from Prose to Screen
John Palisano

Dissolutions
Miguel Fliguer

Advice I Wish I’d Been Given When I Was a 12-Year-Old Girl about to Watch The Exorcist for the First Time
Chelsea Davis

Mount P
Denise Robbins


Vastarien Vol. 3, Issue 1 – Contents

 
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VASTARIEN: Volume 3, Issue 1


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Vastarien Vol. 3, Issue 1 – Contents

Moriya
Dean Paschal

The Querent
Samantha Bolf

To her Lord, the Almighty, upon the reviving of Ezekiel’s bones
M. Christine Benner Dixon

Objects of Desire and Dreams of Objectification in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories
Deborah Bridle

Common Plants of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Jill Winsby-Fein

Mus Musculus–Wet Specimen, Felis Catus–Full-Body Mount
Avra Margariti

Judas Goat
Elliott Gish

The Hollow Songs of Father Prester
S. L. Edwards

The Way of Silence
Ramon Elani

The Book
Amar Benchikha

The Mania of the Unforgotten
Pete Rawlik

Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Marginalia in a Cadaveric Atlas
Wade German

The Prettiest Girl
Christopher Ropes

The Aspen Wretch
Daphne Gem Host

We’ve All Gone to the Magic Show
Todd Keisling

The Park of Eternally Loitering Fathers
Adrian Van Young

art by Dan Sauer (including cover)


 

 

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Vastarien Vol. 2, Issue 3 – Contents

Ascending Phases of First Contact
Matt Thompson

 

How to Make a Marionette
Patricia Lillie

H. P. Lovecraft and H. R. Giger: The Maestros and Their Muses
John A. DeLaughter

Recuerdos de patay (Images of the Dead)

Zeny May Dy Recidoro

The Flooded Cellar
Daniel Stintzi

Over the Black Bridge: Expansion, Psychogeography, and the Living City in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg
Farah Rose Smith

Every Nowhere
Matthew B. Hare

Interview with T. E. D. Klein
Dejan Ognjanović

Maddening Manikins: The Atmospheric Machines of Poe and Ligotti
Sean Moreland

Radix Malorum
Sean Patrick Hazlett

Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Perceptual Crisis, Identity, and the Rented Flat
Jubel Brosseau

We Are Not Ourselves
Joanna Parypinski

Mapping Catharsis
P. A. Glazier

Pavement
Robert S. Wilson

how to watch a horror movie about grief when you’re grieving
Daryl Sznyter

The Filling
Annie Neugebauer

After I devoured the Beast
Charlotte Begg

Unravelling
David. F. Shultz

art by Carl Lavoie and Derek Pegritz (including cover art)


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Vastarien Vol. 2, Issue 2 – Contents

Clematis, White and Purple
D. P. Watt

 

like crickets
Robin Gow

not other’s tongues
Robin Gow

types of knife blades:

Robin Gow

The Stringer of Wiltsburg Farm
Eden Royce

The Pelt
Christi Nogle

Silences
Lucy A. Snyder

Visions of the Gothic Body in Thomas Ligotti’s Short Stories
Deborah Bridle

Eyestalk
C. M. Crockford

Daddy’s Departure
Danielle Hark

The Sprite House
Trent Kollodge

Sirens in the Night
Paul L. Bates

Thomas Ligotti: The Abyss of Radiance
S. C. Hickman

The Milk Man
Alana I. Capria

Trans Woman Gutted
Valin Paige

What Found Nevaeh
Donyae Coles

art by Giuseppe Balestra, Tatiana Garmendia, and Danielle Hark (including cover art)


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Vastarien Vol. 2, Issue 1 – Contents

Venio
Gemma Files
The Lord is an Active Shooter
Fiona Maeve Geist
The Sisters
F.J. Bergmann
Horror Religiosus: The Dark Passions of Mark Samuels
David Peak
The Curse of the Biblical Magi
S. G.
Aharesia
Natalia Theodoridou
Silhouette Golems
S. E. Casey
Orchid Architecture
K. A. Opperman
All the Stage is a World
Forrest Aguirre
Burger Shop
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
Rat King
Lia Swope Mitchell
Vanpool
C. M. Muller
Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Gwendolyn Kiste
The Ageless Agelasts
Rhys Hughes
In the Way of Eslan Mendeghast
Farah Rose Smith
Effigies of Former Supervisors
Matthew M. Bartlett

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Vastarien Vol. 1, Issue 3 – 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
Desiree Zamarano
“The Clown Puppet” — A Case Study
Michael Cisco
The Nightmare Man
L’Erin Ogle
Ennigaldi
Sam Schreiber
Trauma Narrating
Dr. Raymond Thoss
For She is Falling
John Linwood Grant

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Vastarien Vol. 1, Issue 2 – 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



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Vastarien Vol. 1, Issue 1 – Contents

Foreword to the Polish edition of Teatro Grottesco (Okultura, 2014)
Thomas Ligotti
The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking
Kurt Fawver
The Nightmare of His Art: The Horrific Power of the Imagination in “The Troubles of Dr. Thoss” and “Gas Station Carnivals”
W. Silverwood
Affirmation of the Spirit: Consciousness, Transformation, and the Fourth World in Film
Christopher Slatsky
Try the Veal
Robert Beveridge
How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh
Michael Uhall
“Eccentric to the Healthy Social Order”: Inversions of Family, Community, and Religion in Thomas Ligotti’s “The Last Feast of Harlequin”
Michael J. Abolafia
“They say I should kill myself and not try to spoil their enjoyment in being alive”: An Interview with Thomas Ligotti
Wojciech Gunia
Wraiths
Wade German
Eraserhead as Antinatalist Allegory
Colby Smith
The Theatre of Ovid
Aaron Worth
The Alienation of the Self: Marx, Polanyi, and Ligottian Horror
S. L. Edwards
Strange Bird
Ian Mullins
Solar Flare
Paul L. Bates
Night Walks: The Films of Val Lewton
Michael Penkas
Infinite Light, Infinite Darkness
Martin Rose
Nervous Wares & Abnormal Stares
Devin Goff
My Time at the Drake Clinic
Jordan Kral
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Notes on a Horror
Dr. Raymond Thoss
Singing the Song of My Unmaking
Christopher Ropes

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