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Loyalty on Trial

This issue centers on the word loyalty—a concept that unfolds into questions of choice, demand, duty, and betrayal. Gothic loyalty may be tender or terrifying, inherited or invented, sacred or broken. In [...]

The King’s Greatest Soldier

Read by Kamil Mania   They did not knock when they arrived. They did not tell when we asked. They did not spare when we begged. Like lightning in a bottle, it [...]

Winter Again

Read by Julia Prokopowicz   You ever had to bury a friend? Like, actually, bury them? The corpse, the dirt, and a shovel if you’re lucky. The dirt stuck underneath your nails [...]

The Province of Pain

Tenzin took a deep but ragged breath and, with it, his first step up the narrow, dark stairs of the tenement building. Step. It had all begun in the spring of 1919, [...]

Beautiful Creature: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

  Read by Maja Zamiejska This review contains spoilers   The gothic event of the season, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein bears the unmistakable imprint of a filmmaker with a spectacular imagination. A [...]

The Thorn Prince

The crown fit my head as an organic extension of myself, forged to the exact curve of my skull, yet I could hear the sharp voice of my mother repeating enough times [...]

When Faith Fails: FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

Read by Katarzyna ‘Catharsis’ Mikołajczyk Autumn evenings feel incomplete without a cup of warm tea, a comforting blanket, and a dose of horror. This distinct autumnal mood gets better when it is [...]

The Artists Cemetery

Read by Gabriela Twardowska There is a place in my village, by the sea, where dreams of artistry go to die. A heavy gate and statues of crying angels hold up a [...]

A Letter from an Old Friend

Herbert Hallaway was a man whose every day of the last decade began exactly at dawn. As soon as the sun rose above the horizon, letting the first rays into his room, [...]