Stygian Lepus Magazine Edition 26 - a Literary, Horror, Fantasy & Sci-fi Magazine

Explore dark speculative fiction, horror, surreal fantasy, and unsettling poetry in The Stygian Lepus Magazine: Edition 26—where beauty and terror intertwine.

The descent continues.

In The Stygian Lepus Magazine: Edition 26, the shadows grow deeper, and the veil lifts just enough to show what should remain hidden. These stories and poems are more than tales—they’re rituals carved in ink, rituals that burn, unravel, and awaken.

The haunting conclusion of “Sin Eater – Part Three” drags us into a blood-soaked reckoning where guilt becomes appetite. In “Department of Murderous Vixens,” the DMV becomes a battleground of wit and the undead. “Blood Ties” erupts in shrieks and shattered glass as ancient magic makes its claim, while “The Animals of Inkwhich Inn” turns language into a carnival of dirigibles, spectral beasts, and surreal decay. And in “How Beautiful Things Disappear – Part One,” a tender queer fugue blooms with melancholy and defiance, set against the slow violence of societal erasure.

You’ll meet sinister children, misfiring memories, spectral lovers, and creatures that wear your cousin’s voice. “Not All Who Wander” leads us down the long road of survivor’s guilt—and what still waits in the trees. The poetry flows like blood from cracked porcelain in “One More Drink,” “In Sections: A Contrapuntal,” and “Dear Raven.”

Edition 26 is a cathedral of the uncanny, each page a stained-glass window shattered into sharp, glittering truth. For those who crave beauty wrapped in horror, and horror cloaked in beauty, this warren opens wide.

But tread carefully.

What opens a door may not close it.