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


The Inflated Graveworm

Number: 31
Distributed: Beltane 2025 (May 10, 2025)
Pages: 20
Circulation: 200 print
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Cover

The Nightmare Reimagined by talmiik
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Fiction

  • "Pteridomicile" by Morgan Melhuish
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  • "The Victim (1831)" by anonymous

Poetry

  • "Walking home after dark" by John Wise
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  • "Love Letter Found After the Fact" by Kimberly L. Becker
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Unearthed

  • "The Hand Explained (1908)" by Henry Davenport Northrop

Music Box

  • Remembering Lestat—Lestat


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

Beltane 2025 (#31)

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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