Issue No. 12

The nights are drawing in, and this week’s issue goes looking for what waits in the dark. Frankenstein is read for the mother it writes out, a creation made without a woman and abandoned by its maker. Macbeth and Othello are read for how murder makes and unmakes a self. The Last of Us brings the oldest fear of all, infection and the dead who will not stay dead, into the present. Modernist writers tear the mask from the Victorian face, refusing to let looks reveal character. And a poem walks through what war leaves behind.

The Winter Quarterly, our first issue in print, closes for submissions this Saturday, 31 October: theastyanax.com/submit

Happy Halloween.

Hector Hallett, Founder & Editor-in-Chief