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Vastarien: A Literary Journal

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.

Vol. 1, Issue 1 Contents:

• Foreword to Teatro Grottesco

essay by Thomas Ligotti

•The Nightmare of His Art: The Horrific Power of the Imagination in "The Troubles of Dr. Thoss and "Gas Station Carnivals"

essay by W. Silverwood

•The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking

short fiction by Kurt Fawver

• Affirmation of the Spirit: Consciousness, Transformation, and the Fourth World in Film

short fiction by Christopher Slatsky

•Try the Veal

poem by Robert Beveridge

•How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh

short fiction by Michael Uhall

•Notes on a Horror

essay by Dr. Raymond Thoss

•"Eccentric to the Healthy Social Order" : Inversions of Family, Community, and Religion in Thomas Ligotti's "The Last Feast of Harlequin"

essau by Michael J. Abolafia

•Wraiths

poem by Wade German

•Eraserhead as Antinatalist Allegory

essay by Colby Smith

•The Alienation of the Self: Marx, Polanyi, and Ligottian Horror

essay by S. L. Edwards

•The Theatre of Ovid

short fiction by Aaron Worth

•Infinite Light, Infinite Darkness short fiction by Martin Rose

•Night Walks: The Films of Val Lewton

essay by Michael Penkas

• Solar Flare

short fiction by Paul L. Bates

•Strange Bird

poem by Ian Mullins

•Nervous Wares & Abnormal Stares

short fiction by Devin Goff

•My Time at the Drake Clinic

short fiction by Jordan Krall

•Singing the Song of My Unmaking

short fiction by Christopher Ropes

•"They say I should kill myself and not try to spoil their enjoyment in being alive": An Interview with Thomas Ligotti

interview by Wojciech Gunia

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 284
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780692089279
  • Genres
  • horror, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2018