Chthonic Matter Quarterly: Spring 2026 (Vol. 4, Issue 1)

Chthonic Matter is a quarterly offering of tales from the darkside. Its contents range in tone from the quiet horror of Shirley Jackson to the bleak stylings of Thomas Ligotti — and everything in between.

This issue contains the following stories:

“Hog Butcher For the World” by Clint Smith
“The Foundling” by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
“Incursions” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Eyes Without the Glaze” by Charles Wilkinson
“Under Stone” by Danny Rhodes
“Cal” by Maureen O’Leary
“Ingmar Bergman’s The Cannibals: A Lost Film” by Joseph Anderson