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 Commencement Joanna Parypinski Patent for an Artificial Uterus Max D. Stanton The Crafter of the World Ashley Dioses Bequeathing the World to Insects Christopher Mountenay Trigger Julie Travis The Master Gardener Nicole Vasari Parasitic Castration Amelia Gorman The November House Charles Wilkinson Lacan on Lynch: Viewing Twin Peaks through a Psychoanalytic Lens Rob F. Martin soul of a mannequin Justyna Bendyk Shirley Jackson and That Old Black Magic Jill Hand How to be a Horror Writer Tim Waggoner Cover 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.