Contributors
Meg Freer is a poet based in Kingston, Ontario; find out more about her work on her Substack. [Return].
The Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell, a novelist of social realism, ventured into gothic and supernatural realms in her short stories. Learn more about Gaskell’s work at the Victorian Web. [Return].
Danielle Plamondon is a photographer based in Québec. [Return].
Edgar Allan Poe – a seminal figure in American Romanticism, and a fellow traveler and critic of the transcendentalists – remains one of the great influences on horror fiction, the gothic aesthetic, and the modern imagination. Check out the Poe Museum and the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. [Return].
Nava Messas Waxman is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, drawing, painting, moving images, and installation, and explores themes of identity, liminality and memory. Learn about and see more of her work on her website. [Return].
Dedications
To my parents. – Max Scheinin
To Clementine Fayre Fitzgerald, with all my love. – Jamie Thompson
Facts
With the exceptions of “The Old Nurse’s Story” (Elizabeth Gaskell) and “The Cask of Amontillado” (Edgar Allan Poe), which are public-domain works, all works published in this issue are the copyrighted intellectual property of their respective creators as of the year 2024. Specifically:
Meg Freer wrote “Pitch-Perfect Dreams” and “Small, Weird Things” in 2023.
Danielle Plamondon took the photographs here sequenced as “Flirting with the Underworld” between 2008 and 2017.
Max Scheinin wrote “The Plonkswald Floor” in 2019, and “On the Set of Severer 5” and “The Witch in the Woods” in 2022.
Jamie Thompson wrote “passing through walls” in 2024, and drew and photographed the works listed on the preceding page in 2023 and 2024.
Nava Messas Waxman first published the photographs here presented as “The Threshold Keeper” in her 2020 MFA thesis “Variations on Broken Lines.”
