| Title | : | Vastarien: Vol. 2, Issue 3 |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 |
| Publication | : | First published November 21, 2019 |
Contents
Ascending Phases of First Contact
Matt Thompson
How to Make a Marionette
Patricia Lillie
H. P. Lovecraft and H. R. Giger: The Maestros and Their Muses
John A. DeLaughter
Recuerdos de patay (Images of the Dead)
Zeny May Dy Recidoro
The Flooded Cellar
Dan Stintzi
Over the Black Bridge: Expansion, Psychogeography, and the Living City in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg
Farah Rose Smith
Every Nowhere
Matthew B. Hare
Interview with T. E. D. Klein
Dejan Ognjanović
Maddening Manikins: The Atmospheric Machines of Poe and Ligotti
Sean Moreland
Radix Malorum
Sean Patrick Hazlett
Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Perceptual Crisis, Identity, and the Rented Flat
Jubel Brosseau
We Are Not Ourselves
Joanna Parypinski
Mapping Catharsis
P. A. Glazier
Pavement
Robert S. Wilson
how to watch a horror movie about grief when you’re grieving
Daryl Sznyter
The Filling
Annie Neugebauer
After I devoured the Beast
Charlotte Begg
Unravelling
David. F. Shultz
art by Carl Lavoie and Derek Pegritz (including cover art)
Vastarien: Vol. 2, Issue 3 Reviews
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My first taste of VASTARIEN and it certainly won't be my last!
I have a particular fondness for existential/weird horror and Padgett & Cardin's Journal does not disappoint in the slightest. The intermixing of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art in one volume is lovely and helps the reader not become too weighed down by any one form of prose/art.
Particular standouts were Matt Thompson's "Ascending Phases of First Contact", Patricia Lillie's "How To Make A Marionette", and Robert Wilson's "Pavement."
I also have to mention Dan Stintzi's "Flooded Cellar" as well, because even though the story didn't check all my boxes, his prose is lovely and always unsettles me in the best way.
I also really enjoyed John DeLaughter's essay on Lovecraft and Giger.
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One of my favorite in the series so far. Pavement was a highlight; a universal experience and a beautiful metaphor.
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fantastic assortment of fact and fiction. Gets better each issue.
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Another issue in the ever blooming journal that Vastarien is . While the fiction and poetry contributions have maintained there quality, this is not an easy feat. With this issue I have found the non fiction pieces to be the stand out ones. In particular, with Maddening Manikins: The Atmospheric Machines of Poe and Ligotti by Sean Moreland was a personal favourite
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A strikingly labyrinthine view of gestalt through homeless threads or seams or glimpses of the sun through the slit in window-blinds, blind but seeing, too. That dentist room earlier today above: “The room felt stale and suffocating, and my skull throbbed.” Automatic writing between waking and dream, the lump in scrambled egg like that earlier self on a perch. Steamwhistle, too. A fishing-line either a Dreamcatcher or Hawler. And old man’s suicide threaded, at one remove, to subway tracks. An old man like me. I’m nearly 74. Well, a year or two to go. My thread is taut, my worm shrunk. Lines to follow, like the line on the back cover of this book, edge to edge. Unravelling and ravelling mean the same thing. Look the words up.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.
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This was one of the weaker "Vastarien" issues for me. I liked "Every Nowhere" and "Radix Malorum".
"We Are Not Ourselves" and "Pavement" are also decent. -
Vastarien always delivers. Just look at that cover art. Who do you think you are, resisting that?
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Excellent as always. I love when these are published. Amazing variety of fiction and non, artwork, and poetry. I will be thinking twice about my next drive on the highway and trip to the dentist. Amazing work!
