Vastarien, Volume Seven, Issue Zero

GRIMSCRIBE PRESS 2024

Jon Padgett, Editor-in-Chief — Paula D. Ashe, Associate Editor — Daniel Braum, Associate Editor — Alex Jennings, Associate Editor

My previous reviews of this literary journal: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/vastarien/

CONTRIBUTORS: Romana Lockwood, Richard Gavin, M.E. Bronstein, Marisca Pichette, Laura Cranehill, Adam Lawrence, Emma E. Murray, SJ Townend, Alyza Taguilaso, Chris Kuriata, Rebecca J. Allred, Michael Bailey, Carson Winter, César Dávila Andrade, Ben Larned, Paul L. Bates, Dyani Sabin, Perry Ruhland, Shawn Phelps, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Andrew Wilbur, A Mystery Author

Although I have retired from most reviewing after 15 years of doing it, I am keeping up with my regular independent relationships, such as with whole Vastariens, and with new single stories in anthologies and collections by writers whom I have reviewed before. Please keep me informed of the latter.

Who knows, I may one day come out of such retirement and start obsessively gestalt reviewing whole books again!

When I read this issue of Vastarien, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Oculus Sinister

CHTHONIC MATTER 2020

Edited by C.M. Muller

My reviews of works edited by or containing this editor: HERE

Stories by Seán Padraic Birnie, Brian Evenson, Elana Gomel, Douglas Ford, Shannon Scott, Timothy Granville, LC von Hessen, Mark Howard Jones, Rhonda Eikamp, Charles Wilkinson, James Pate, J.A.W. McCarthy, Christopher K. Miller, Selene dePackh, M.R. Cosby, Michael Kelly, Rebecca J. Allred, John Langan, Steve Rasnic Tem, Sam Richard.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Nightscript – Vol. III

“The Flower Unfolds” — Simon Strantzas
“A Place With Trees” — Rowley Amato
“What Little Boys Are Made Of” — Malcolm Devlin
“Grizzly” — M.K. Anderson
“Might Be Mordiford” — Charles Wilkinson
“Palankar” — Daniel Braum
“The Gestures Remain” — Christi Nogle
“House of Abjection” — David Peak
“The Undertow, and They That Dwell Therein” — Clint Smith
“Downward” — Amar Benchikha
“The Familiar” — Cory Cone
“Liquid Air” — Inna Effress
“The Beasts Are Sleep” — Adam Golaski
“The Witch House” — Jessica Phelps
“On the Edge of Utterance” — Stephen J. Clark
“Homeward Bound Now, Paulino” — Armel Dagorn
“The Affair” — James Everington
“When Dark-Eyed Ophelia Sings” — Rebecca J. Allred
“We, the Rescued” — John Howard
“Twenty Miles and Running” — Christian Riley
“Something You Leave Behind” — David Surface
“Young Bride” — Julia Rust
“The Other Side of the Hill” — M.R. Cosby

Edited by CM Muller

My review of Volume II HERE

I expect this to be delivered to me on 1 October 2017, but there shall be some delay before I real-time review it. When I do, my thoughts  will appear in the comment stream below….

Nightscript II

NIGHTSCRIPT Volume Two

An Anthology of Strange & Darksome Tales

Edited by C.M. Muller

Chthonic Matter 2016

Stories by Michael Griffin, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Slatsky,  J.T. Glover, Eric J. Guignard, Malcolm Devlin, Gwendolyn Kiste, Ralph Robert Moore, Christopher Ropes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jason A. Wyckoff, Gordon White, Nina Shephardson, Kurt Fawver, Rowley Amato, Charles Wilkinson, H.V. Chao, Daniel Mills, Rebecca J. Allred, Matthew M. Bartlett, José Cruz.

When I real-time review this book, my comments will appear in the thought stream below…