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grimscribe press home of vastarien a literary journal grimscribe press home of vastarien a literary journal menu skip to content home singing the song of my unmaking rebellion against the conspiracy against the human race everywhere is a horror story daughters of catastrophe spiritus ex machina glass stories blood from the air dwayyo anonyma antisocieties we are happy we are doomed in that endlessness our end the immeasurable corpse of nature the half freaks vastarien a literary journal issues benefactors editor contact us home a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of thomas ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas status closed vastarien the forbidden tome the impossible otherworld a textual entryway into a place where everything was transfixed in the order of the unreal each passage he entered in the book both enchanted and appalled him with images and incidents so freakish and chaotic that his usual sense of these terms disintegrated along with everything else rampant oddity seemed to be the rule of the realm imperfection became the source of the miraculous wonders of deformity and marvels of miscreation there was horror undoubtedly but it was a horror uncompromised by any feeling of lost joy or thwarted redemption rather it was a deliverance by damnation and if vastarien was a nightmare it was a nightmare transformed in spirit by the utter absence of refuge nightmare made normal our name is drawn from thomas ligotti s classic story of the same title quoted above which s t joshi has characterized as ligotti s most searching exploration of the forbidden book theme our interests include but are not limited to the following subjects supernatural horror both fiction and film philosophical pessimism gnosticism buddhism nihilism surrealism decadent and fin de siècle literature pessimistic and morbid poetry trakl thomson brennan leopardi larkin wiloch barnitz etc aberrant psychology depression bipolar disorder anxiety disorders anhedonia depressive realism etc euthanasia right to die horror in the visual arts antinatalism l école belge de l étrange corporate degradation the architecture and topography of detroit and its suburbs horror and pessimism as it relates to most any field geography psychology astronomy music film etc kind of a catchall category any crossovers or hybrids of these categories writers see our submission guidelines for more specific information read about our editorial board for a look at who s behind this project share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook leave a comment leave a comment cancel reply δ this site uses akismet to reduce spam learn how your comment data is processed widgets search for vastarien a literary journal vastarien a literary journal recent posts item sold out test blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed grimscribe press join 64 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy grimscribe press subscribe subscribed sign up log in copy shortlink report this content view post in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website