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


The Inflated Graveworm

Number: 25
Distributed: Winter 2023 (October 28, 2023)
Pages: 20
Circulation: 200 print
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Cover

Detail from "The Witch (Night Piece)" by Jan van de Velde (1620-1662)
Reproduced under a Creative Commons license kindly granted by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Fiction

  • "The Shrine" by David Powers
  • "A Tropical Horror" by William Hope Hodgson

Nonfiction

  • "Project Fear" by David Powers
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Poetry

  • "Mirrors" by Angel Powers
  • "Permanent Ink" by Jack Beltane
  • "In A Year" by Robert Browning

Music Box

  • Servant—Errorr
  • Inflated Graveworm #25—Jack Beltane
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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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