



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 Krall

Notes on a Horror

Dr. Raymond Thoss

Singing the Song of My Unmaking

Christopher Ropes