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Vastarien: A Literary Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 2, edited by Jon Padgett, Grimscribe Press, Fall 2020. Cover art and internal illustrations by Harry 0. Morris, info: vastarien-journal.com.

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!

Contents:
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