The Inflated Graveworm is a quarterly print zine of "dark" literature.


The Inflated Graveworm

Number: 30
Distributed: Imbolc 2025 (February 1, 2025)
Pages: 20
Circulation: 200 print
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Cover

Ars Moriendi, Work V by Adel Souto
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Fiction

  • "Mark of the Train Rider" by Matthew Brown
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  • "Weeds and Wildflowers" by Bobby Rollins
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Poetry

  • "Bluebeard" by Brittany Micka-Foos
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Opinion

  • "Other gross absurdities of witchmongers in this matter of conjurations" by Reginald Scot (1584)

Music Box

  • Songs of a Lost World—The Cure


The Inflated Graveworm has limited print distribution centered in Lakewood, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland). The zine is available free in select stores in Lakewood, and issues can also be purchased through a subscription or downloaded as an epub file through our patreon page. Current print/distribution run is 200 copies.

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Issues

Imbolc 2025 (#30)

Samhain 2024 (#29)

Lammas 2024 (#28)

Beltane 2024 (#27)

Imbolc 2024 (#26)

Winter 2023 (#25)

Summer 2003 (#24)

Spring 2003 (#23)

Winter 2003 (#22)

Autumn 2002 (#21)

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