FRANCESCO MERCURI is a visual artist from a small city in Florence. He attended the Technical Technological Institute and TheSign Comics ...

When Evans first perceived the Baby, she was left stunned for three hours afterwards as if she’d been whacked upside the head with a fryi...

Process Notes: I affectionately think of “The Mountain Under Vickwood” as knockoff cosmic horror, but I don’t think cosmic horror can be w...

The first time that it happened was in the supermarket. You hadn’t been back in town that long. A few months, maybe. You were at the stor...

Jim called out to the figure across the lake. He could tell there was something wrong with the girl by the way her skin looked. Burns, he...

Process Notes: To create this illustration, I started from very simple sketches. I tried to create basic shapes that could transmit sensa...

Wish I was always calm, able to laugh at the glass stuck in my foot, wipe up the blood from the floor, admire its color without any sens...

Those who witnessed the scene, heard his smoke-smothered screams remember the smell, still recall in dreams his blistering skin peeling a...

There always comes a point when there’s nothing left to do except dismantle and rebuild. Unzip the skin, unhook each ligament and watch i...

There is a place somewhere in this oven heat between the buildings and the clouds perhaps or underneath a shady rock where strange, bewil...

Bags of meat surround and drown you, skin-tied in the repugnant stench of finite existence. Coughing on the malodorous awareness of decom...

Dear Noctules: Poetry has an uncanny way of helping us navigate the depths of darkness inherent in the human soul. Some of the most frigh...

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre You have just come inside from blowing a cigarette together from smoke. Right now, you are in a dark room, seat...

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre The dog had only walked a few paces into the sunlight when Justine saw something else too. There was something ...

Process Notes: One day, I found a badly injured wood pigeon in the road. I brought her to town to be euthanized. When I wrote about the p...

Dear Noctules: As physically distancing ourselves from one another becomes the norm—and interestingly enough, so does virtual hyper-conne...

JONAS CARDONA is an up-and-coming novelist and artist focusing on science fiction and dark fantasy. He is earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts...

Edited by Jacqueline Dyre Sonthi and Preeda lived on the thirtieth floor of their apartment building, and large windows offered an extrav...

Process Notes: I started drawing when I was eight years old. Throughout my childhood, I found myself alone a lot of the time and [drawing...

SIMONE TORCASIO is from a small town in southern Italy. From an early age, he's loved art and creativity. It is precisely with art in his...