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The Harlequin, by TabbyStardust, via DeviantArt.

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Vastarien: A Literary Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 2, edited by Jon Padgett, Grimscribe Press, Fall 2020. Cover art and internal illustrations by Harry 0. Morris, info: vastarien-journal.com.

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. Double issue! Original cover art and 13 original, full color illustrations by living legend Harry 0. Morris. 25 works of fiction by Michael Griffin, Cody Goodfellow, LC von Hessen, Sarah L. Johnson, John Claude Smith, Casilda Ferrante, Lora Gray, Matthew M. Bartlett, and others! 2 Nonfiction articles by Alex Skopic and John Palisano. 9 poems by Sonya Taaffe, Rae White, Dimitry Blizniuk and others. All new recurring column by a special guest!

Contents: Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings – Romana Lockwood Year in White – Alex Jennings Heath Crawler – Sam Hicks Homeownership and You – Kurt Fawver Roscoe’s Malefic Delights – LC von Hessen Konrad – Rhonda Pressley Veit your AI girlfriend named “it” – Rae White I Wake Up and Remember Myself – Michael Griffin The Psychic Surgeon – Cody Goodfellow Stoneborn – Nina Shepardson Her Lullaby – Casilda Ferrante Gunfire and Brimstone – Alicia Hilton Win Big – Carson Winter [Applause] – Joshua Plack A Spectre Haunting Detroit: On Corporate Horror and Historical Materialism – Alex Skopic Theory of Forms – Sarah L. Johnson There’s Something Wrong with Henry – Eddie Generous Lessons in Etymology for the New Human – Korbin Jones Secret Voice of Fire – Casilda Ferrante Drinking from the Incantation Bowl – Sonya Taaffe You Are the Arm – J.A.W. McCarthy Music for a Peripheral Companion – Timothy G. Huguenin Deprimer – Mike Thorn APOCTATRYPTAMIN® – T. M. Morgan Brood Five – Lora Gray Hecatomb – Tiffany Morris Grooming my Grandfather – David Stevens Dear Will – Tim Major Death Doll – Roberta Gould Picturing Her Hands – Ivy Grimes The Hole in the Wall is Oblivion – John Claude Smith Phases of the Shadow – Jessica Ann York The Inexhaustible Rhyme of Nature – Dmitry Blizniuk Music for a Peripheral Companion – Timothy G. Huguenin Oh the Beautiful Stink – Matthew M. Bartlett On the Adaptation of “The Frolic” from Prose to Screen – John Palisano Dissolutions – Miguel Fliguer Advice I Wish I’d Been Given When I Was a 12-Year-Old Girl about to Watch The Exorcist for the First Time – Chelsea Davis Mount P – Denise Robbins

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Vastarien: A Literary Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 1, edited by Jon Padgett, Grimscribe Press, Spring 2020. Cover art and internal illustrations by Dan Sauer , info: vastarien-journal.com.

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: 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

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God of Despair, by Matúš Szalontai, via szalontai.sk.

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Don't Be Shy and Talk You Dummy, by Tomás Boersner (tboersner), via DeviantArt.

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Humanity’s Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy, by Ritwick Bhattacharjee, Bloomsbury Academic India, 2020. Info: bloomsbury.com.

Humanity’s Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy interrogates the nature of reality against fantasy as the two are presented to and created by the human consciousness—a consciousness that is in constant struggle with the omnipresence of misery and the inevitability of death. The book shows that being, pessimism, and fantasy as the strings which are made up of forces unseen, unknown, and ungoverned that control the human being like a puppet. Through a study of the metaphysical and existential philosophies of thinkers, such as Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl, Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jacques Derrida, the book interrogates not only how the self interacts with fantasy but why it does as well. It also asks why fantasy forces the self towards a unity that impacts existence in the modern world with its questions of justice, politics, and materiality. Furthermore, it situates the fantasy novels of authors, such as Stephen King, Brandon Sanderson, Douglas Adams, and Robert Jordan, as discourses which delineate the considerations above as ideas which modulate the existence of the human. Additionally, the book shows how it is not just the human that is affected by the machinations of the cosmos but also time and space-ostensibly a priori entities of existence-as these two interact with the human and its consciousness.

Contents: Introduction 1. Remodelling Being and Fantasy 2. Being in Fantasy 3. Of Being in a Fantastic Time 4. The Fantasy of Space Conclusion: What Ends, What Remains Works Cited Index About the Author