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 five dreams of the red tower s. j. bagley The Rules and Regulations of White Pines, Vermont Kurt Fawver Long Time No See F. J. Bergmann Richard Gavin: The Nature of Horror S. T. Joshi The Mad German Michael Uhall I Feel Better Now Brooke Warra The Glow at Home Rayna Waxhead The Ghosts of Their Guns: Magical Realism in the Fiction of Nadia Bulkin S. L. Edwards Chronology of a Burn Tonya Liburd The Blind Opera Sean M. Thompson Nightmares Désirée Zamorano "The Clown Puppet" - A Case Study Michael Cisco Nightly Senses Emmie Bristow The Nightmare Man L'Erin Ogle Ennigaldi Sam Schreiber Trauma Narrating Dr. Raymond Thoss For She is Falling John Linwood Grant Contributors