Ligeia Magazine

Our winter issue—featuring @LuneDorothy @KelliLage @rlgransden @jjb08281219 @IvyGri @sarpsozdinler @chriszeischegg @graciejordann @steakmtn @mahdis01121 @princessbl00d @ash_ferlito and much more… ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/

After nearly five years, Ligeia Magazine will be returning to the tomb for a permanent vacation. Thank you to our contributors and readers for an incredible run. Full statement from the editors below.

I am the little monkey inside the glass eyeball of the automaton. The Automaton by Andy Lee ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/th…

I never liked The Hardy Boys, fucking dorks. Read our interview with @steakmtn ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/ch…

🚨🚨 FRIGHT NIGHT II 🚨🚨 feat. @ElsbyCharlene @InterroPorn @princessbl00d @thefancymike @caromacon @iLLepitaph @gwenergyreigns @RobertKloss @catalogertweets @dmfahoome @timmoore19 @Jampackets Chicago, Oct 26 @ 6 pm [secret venue] hosted by yrs truly 🍭

He made himself a bed from the dreams of his old lovers, their nightmares a glue between every two nights. Wise Men Fish Here by @sarpsozdinler ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/wi…

I could fill you with jam and sew you back up—little stitches like what he pulled from my wrist late that morning. 2 Poems by Kelly R. Samuels ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/2-…

Splashing in the pool behind my house. Tapping my small fingers on piano keys. Writing single chapters of novels that plagiarized my favorite shows. Untraceable by @graciejordann ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/un…

MAITONAUT, my 3rd book, is published by @new_sinews TODAY 🌌 you can buy it online: newnewsinews.com/books/maitonaut + in select real-world shops including @Good_Press & @TheCommonPress there will be a little (london) launch party at @HousmansBooks tomorrow, hopefully see you there<3

Ligeia contributor @rlgransden interviews our co-editor @Gallows_Ticket about his new book!

When people lament the decline of literature as a force in popular culture, really I think we should be embracing that. The most interesting shit grows in the dark. B.R. Yeager Matt Lee [@Gallows_Ticket] Ligeia Magazine [@LigeiaMag] ligeiamagazine.com/spring-2020/br…

From our current issue—Dandelion Wine by Ash Ferlito

She sang about a man, and he appeared in the audience. Light flowed like stiff skirts through the stained-glass windows, so beautiful it made her feel she’d sinned. Little Musgrave by @IvyGri ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/li…

The convoy of my dead passes by while I waltz among the trees to stay warm. Encounter with the Dead by Agnieszka Tworek ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/en…

Fear. Disgust. Pity. The cripple evokes our basest human emotions—as does the monster.🧌 Matt Lee, author of the Backwards Hand is on Wake Island tonight🏝️🌛 ⁦@Gallows_Ticket⁩ & ⁦⁦@northwesternup⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wak…

✨COVER REVEAL!!! ✨ Check out the stunning cover for my debut chapbook releasing with @9SyllablesPress! I'm so excited to share my poems with all of you in October! I'll be reading at Smith College on Octobwr 8, 2024! ✨ Pre-orders will be available later this summer!

Die Closer to Me -- my novella-in-stories about a planet built for the sick and disabled -- has been out for 1 year today. There are at least 200 copies out and about in the world. Genuine thanks Here's a fantastic review of the book from @Gallows_Ticket: ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/di…

But I felt a need for change. It didn’t suit me any longer to write my auto-fiction, to go on complaining, to exploit the life around me. Preface to Creation by @chriszeischegg ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/pr…

A mountain could not be skinned, deboned. A mountain was not warm-blooded, drinkable. Summit in Decline by Kyle Coma-Thompson ligeiamagazine.com/winter-2024/su…

"In a way, I position myself more like the book’s antagonist . . . I don’t expect readers to always sympathize with me." —@Gallows_Ticket, in conversation with @larsonrichard in this week's double interview: full-stop.net/2024/06/04/int… @UWiscPress @northwesternup

Ligeia’s own Ashley Wagner has some new poems in here!