S. T. Joshi has a new blog post. He notes a new and apparently high-quality literary journal on the macabre, which includes essays…

Vastarien, containing my essay “Richard Gavin: The Nature of Horror” (a chapter of 21st-Century Horror). This superbly produced journal, edited by Jon Padgett and published by Grimscribe Press, is a wonder to behold.

The content-lists make it rather difficult to tell what’s an essay and what’s not. For instance, is Christopher Mountenay’s “Bequeathing the World to Insects” an essay on this post-human notion in imaginative literature (the far-future ‘mighty beetle civilisation’ of Lovecraft, etc), or a story?

The Kindle ebook issues can also be had on Amazon at £3.50 (about $5) each, and there are 10% free samples.