Books published by Grimscribe Press

"ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation - what it does to people, and what isolated people do to each other and themselves. An ominously quiet town. A haunting young adult novel from the turn of the century. Two starving captives frozen in agony. A young boy from a doting family. A man in a cheap Halloween mask. A succession of portraits of people trapped in their own identities, some of whom insist on their own ideas because they would have nothing at all without them. People for whom being seen by another is terrifying. And, like any collection of portraits, ANTISOCIETIES is also a collection of speculative mirrors ..."--Provided by publisher.

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!

From the author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales comes this devastating collection of fifteen stories and essays. A father's desperate search for his missing child leads to a cosmic haunted realm. A woman returns to her childhood home to find a past preserved in a semblance of life. A young man and his canine companion find themselves in the heart of an occult government exercise deep within a Pacific Northwest forest. An elderly man is subject to mysterious experiments as he descends into dementia. And, in the title novella, a forensic anthropologist is called to the site of the mass suicide of an anti-natalist cult intent on communicating with Nature. 

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.

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 

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.ContentsVenioGemma FilesThe Lord is an Active ShooterFiona Maeve GeistThe SistersF.J. BergmannHorror Religiosus: The Dark Passions of Mark SamuelsDavid PeakThe Curse of the Biblical MagiSepehr Goshayeshi AharesiaNatalia TheodoridouSilhouette GolemsS. E. CaseyOrchid ArchitectureK. A. OppermanAll the Stage is a WorldForrest AguirreBurger ShopJayaprakash SatyamurthyRat KingLia Swope MitchellVanpoolC. M. MullerMagic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins GilmanGwendolyn KisteThe Ageless AgelastsRhys HughesIn the Way of Eslan MendeghastFarah Rose SmithEffigies of Former SupervisorsMatthew M. BartlettContributors

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.Contentsfive dreams of the red tower s. j. bagleyThe Rules and Regulations of White Pines, Vermont Kurt FawverLong Time No See F. J. BergmannRichard Gavin: The Nature of Horror S. T. JoshiThe Mad German Michael UhallI Feel Better Now Brooke WarraThe Glow at Home Rayna WaxheadThe Ghosts of Their Guns: Magical Realism in the Fiction of Nadia Bulkin S. L. EdwardsChronology of a Burn Tonya LiburdThe Blind Opera Sean M. ThompsonNightmares Désirée Zamorano"The Clown Puppet" - A Case Study Michael CiscoNightly Senses Emmie BristowThe Nightmare Man L'Erin OgleEnnigaldi Sam SchreiberTrauma Narrating Dr. Raymond ThossFor She is Falling John Linwood GrantContributors

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.ContentsCommencement Joanna ParypinskiPatent for an Artificial Uterus Max D. StantonThe Crafter of the World Ashley DiosesBequeathing the World to Insects Christopher MountenayTrigger Julie TravisThe Master Gardener Nicole VasariParasitic Castration Amelia GormanThe November House Charles WilkinsonLacan on Lynch: Viewing Twin Peaks through a Psychoanalytic Lens Rob F. Martinsoul of a mannequin Justyna BendykShirley Jackson and That Old Black Magic Jill HandHow to be a Horror Writer Tim WaggonerCover 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.