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


The Inflated Graveworm

Number: 34
Distributed: Imbolc 2026
Pages: 20
Circulation: 250 print
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Cover

Dreamscape by Patrick Tighe
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Fiction

  • Couples Therapy—Serafino Powers
  • The Man Who Ate Einstein’s Brain—Paul Garson

Nonfiction

  • True Hauntings: The Mithraeum at the Basilica of San Clemente (Rome, Italy)—Lucy Blithe
  • Chasing Synchronicities: Mark Twain's Rabbit Hole—T.D. Meis
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  • Using the NAEQ (New Aeon English Qabala)—The Graveworm

Poetry

  • Sonnet 71—William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
  • dark oak—Max Magenta
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Magic Lantern

  • Good Boy (2025)—David Powers
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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 250 copies.

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The Inflated Graveworm

Issues

Imbolc 2026 (#34)

Samhain 2025 (#33)

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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