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 yvind Lauvdahl. Co-Editors-In-Chief, Matt Cardin and Jon Padgett. Senior Editor, Dagny Paul.