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VASTARIEN: Volume 5, Issue 2


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Vastarien Vol. 5, Issue 2 – Contents

Cover art by David Bowman. Contributors include LC von Hessen, Alina Măciucă, Steve Rasnic Tem, Venezia Castro, Charles Wilkinson, Amelia Gorman, Agwam Kessington, Anzhelina Polonskaya, T.M. Morgan, and many more!

Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood

Little Lamb, Who Made Thee
LC von Hessen

Ghost Woman in the Worm World
Amelia Gorman

Into the White
Steve Rasnic Tem

No Longer Remotely Human: Metamorphosis in the Horror of Junji Ito
Aleco Julius

The Outer Thread
Venezia Castro

Time is Like a Spider, Love Like a Dream
Michelle Muenzler

The Bleating Belfry
John Brownlee

Jellybean
John Paul Davies

The Bones of Small Mammals
Scott McNee

These Bones of Clay
Dyani Sabin

Postulation
Sophia Ashley

Pipes
Alina Măciucă

Ghosts, Always
David Rees-Thomas

The Other Sides of Doors
Charlene Elsby

Monster Seed
Agwam Kessington

Confusion Now Hath Made His Masterpiece
Shawn Phelps

Disinfection
Matt Sadowski

Laugh Track
Shaoni C. White

Bird’s Eye Rhyolite
Sara Wilson

No Visitors
Charles Wilkinson

The Merchant of Places and Precious Things
Sofia Ezdina

Unraveling
Barbara A. Barnett

Word of Mouth
Stephen Hargadon

Remembering Five Generations of Mayfly History, on the Sixth and Last Day
Marisca Pichette

In Caelo, in Terra
Aaron Worth

The Conductor
Sarah Walker

Tectonic: a Conversation with the Gore-ious Maureen Tellani
T.M. Morgan

From Darkness, to Darkness
Anzhelina Polonskaya

The Mark
C. O. Davidson

Winter at the Provincial Station
Anzhelina Polonskaya



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VASTARIEN: Volume 5, Issue 1


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Vastarien Vol. 5, Issue 1 – Contents

Cover art by Jason Barnett. Contributors include Gwendolyn Kiste, Daniel Braum, Wendy N. Wagner, Joe Koch, Ivy Grimes, and many more!

Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood

Halogen Sky
Wendy N. Wagner

Twenty-Nine Palms in Reverse
Daniel Braum

The Devil’s Just Sitting There Laughing: The Uncanny American Landscapes of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Days of Heaven
Gwendolyn Kiste

Return to Office
Kristin Cleaveland

The Case Against the Dream
Armel Dagorn

Psithurism
T. M. Morgan

For the Night is Long, and I am Lost
Without You
Erica Ruppert

“Autopsy on a Puppet”: The Day of Lost
Illusion in Thomas Ligotti’s “Mad Night of Atonement”
Chris Brawley

Deep Sea Creature
Vivian Kasley

Leviathan
Lucy Frost

Town Called Malice
Lindz McLeod

Waiting for Golem
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Coded Dreams: Gender and Information Processing in The Great God Pan
Macy Harrison

Straw World
Erik McHatton

The Under Carnival
Logan Noble

Fugue
Joe Koch

The Flower Imposes Itself on the Ghost House
Kolbeinn Karlsson

This Attraction Now Open Till Late
Kyla Lee Ward

Itch in the Party House
Ivy Grimes



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VASTARIEN: Volume 4, Issue 2


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Vastarien Vol. 4, Issue 2 – Contents

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 Ognjanović, Christi Nogle, Kurt Fawver, Ivy Grimes, Clint Smith, and many more!

Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood

The Unpleasant State of Beginning
Hailey Piper

Matsuri
Michael Uhall

The Mushroom Men
Carson Winter

Heartstrings
Philippa Evans

Sculpting
Mari Ness

She Ain’t Stoppin’
Christi Nogle

Fold
Gwen C. Katz

Night Mare
Stephanie M. Wytovich

On Borrowed Time
Greg Sisco

Voyeur
Tori Fredrick

Everything Will Be Okay
John Claude Smith

The Bloody Story of his Canvas: A Reading of “The Lost Art of Twilight”
George Prekas

How to Send the Dead (Assuming You’ve Cremated Them Against Their Dying Wish)
Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Sometimes It’s Just Like Hiding
Georgia Cook

Down the Dark Hallway: An Essay on P.T.
Sean M. Thompson

A Walkthrough of Route X: Video Games and the Postmodern Gothic
Joanna Parypinski

Thy Structures Rear’d in Blood
Rhonda Eikamp

Vulture Eyes
Christa Carmen

Revenge and Envy Are Very Small Things: Cosmic Inconsequentialism in S. P.
Miskowski’s Skillute Cycle
S. L. Edwards

The Accursed Manor of the Mirrorlands
LC von Hessen

Anthropophagus
Sara Tantlinger

The Collected Poems of James Zjarek, Transgressor
Perry Ruhland

The Shining Path
Paul L. Bates

Lullaby
Jenny Darmody

Lonely Wordless Ghosts
Mari Ness

Red Knots Tightening
Emer O’Hanlon

The Three Paradigms of Horror
Dejan Ognjanović

The Gyrification of Violence
Clint Smith

The Food Fellow
Ivy Grimes

This Story Will Kill You
Kurt Fawver


 
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VASTARIEN: Volume 4, Issue 1


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Vastarien Vol. 4, Issue 1 – Contents

All Color Issue — Cover art by Danielle Hark and 13 illustrations by Danielle Hark, Giuseppe Balestra, Donyae Coles, Rhiannon Rasmussen, and Michael Sawecki.

Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings
Romana Lockwood

Vertices
Simon Strantzas

You Eat What You Are
Christina Ladd

“Her Chill, Shuttered Room”: Patriarchal Oppression on Female Agency in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love”
Shawn Chang

Science Explains Why Saturn Ate His Children
Amelia Gorman

So Low in Flesh, So High in Bone
Vajra Chandrasekera

Black Light
Nelson Stanley

A Martyrology For Museums: Ekphrastic Tales of Horror
S.R. Mandel

The Perceptual Inconstancy of Enid Wozniak
Frank Oreto

Feminist Pasts and Dystopian Futures: (Re)Visiting Herland
E. F. Schraeder

Attend, Attend
Shenoa Carroll-Bradd

Bagley’s Correction
Liam O’Brien

A Nightmare Stay, I Wish I Could Give This Negative Stars
N.R. Lambert

“The House of Asterion” : death of a solipsistic Minotaur, apotheosis of a metaphysical monster
Denis Moreau

Consuming the unknown fruit: a guide
Michelle Muenzler

Come Winter
Michelle Muenzler

The Sculptor
Samuel M. Moss

Machina Obscura
Tobias Reckermann

A Tyranny of Tongues
Michael Uhall

The Grave of Angels
Erica Ruppert

The Main Street Robbery
Michael Canfield

The Woman Who Was Seen
DeAnna Knippling

The Spring Burn
Kurt Newton

End of the Milky Way
Kristin Peterson

Floaters
LH Michael

Only Business
Matt Neil Hill

Twinning
Rhiannon Rasmussen


 
Harry 0. Morris Cover Art

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


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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

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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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