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


The Inflated Graveworm

Number: 32
Distributed: Lammas 2025 (August 3, 2025)
Pages: 20
Circulation: 200 print
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Cover

Waning by Serafino Powers
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Fiction

  • "Hollow" by Catherine Fields
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  • "I Call Him Wa-a-tty" by Susan R. Morritt

Nonfiction

  • "The New Aeon English Qabala" by the Graveworm

Poetry

  • "Bear Hunting" by Jack Beltane
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  • "Silk Thread" by Michael J. Boyle
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  • "Hunger" by Amy Allison
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  • "The Haunted House (1831)" by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Unearthed

  • "from Fatality Of Numbers (1877)" by S. Baring-Gould
  • "Deceptive Vision (1908)" by Henry Davenport Northrop


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

Lammas 2025 (#32)

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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