Vastarien, Vol. 1, Issue 2

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.

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

Cover Art by Yves Tourigny. Book design by Anna Trueman. Internal art by Giuseppe Balestra, Ksenia Korniewska, Serhiy Krykun, Carl Lavoie, and Øyvind Lauvdahl. Co-Editors-In-Chief, Matt Cardin and Jon Padgett. Senior Editor, Dagny Paul.