Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 2

by Jon Padgett (Editor), Danielle Hark (Other), Lucy a Snyder

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578547275
Publisher:	Grimscribe Press
Publication date:	07/17/2019
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Jon Padgett is a professional-though lapsed-ventriloquist who lives in New Orleans with his spouse, their daughter, and a rescue dog and cat. He is the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Vastarien: A Literary Journal, a source of critical study and creative response to the work of Thomas Ligotti. Padgett's first short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine. His recent novelette, The Broker of Nightmares, was published by Nightscape Press. In mid-2019, the same press will be publishing a deluxe, fully illustrated box set including Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, Matthew M. Bartlett's Gateways to Abomination, and a third yet-untitled collection with stories written in collaboration by the two authors.

Harry 0. Morris's artwork has been legendary since the 1970s. He has illustrated more stories by horror authors Richard Matheson and Thomas Ligotti than any other artist, and his work helped to define the genre with his innovative use of collage and computer graphics.

Gemma Files is the author of over 100 short stories, five collections of short fiction and five novels, all horror or dark fantasy. She won the 1999 International Horror Guild Best Short Fiction Award for her story The Emperor's Old Bones, the 2010 Black Quill Award for Best First Novel for A Book of Tongues (first in the Hexslinger series), and the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel for her book Experimental Film.

Table of Contents

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)

Editorial Reviews

Winner of the 2018 This Is Horror Award for Best Fiction Magazine

"Vastarien is... perhaps the highest quality literary journal in the horror sphere."
--Signal Horizon

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