Issue One: Halloween Edition
From our Editor-in-Chief
Dear reader,
Thank you for taking the time to read our first issue of Thin Veil Press. Whether you are a contributor, a curious soul or simply a fan of the morbid and macabre, we welcome you to our Halloween Edition.
I dreamt up this press in the midst of a London heatwave while submitting my own work to various literary magazines. During this time, it quickly became apparent to me that there was a gap in the market for the readers and writers of dark fiction. While some literary magazines allow horror and dark literature (often as a “hey we also accept some horror, I guess?”) something was missing. I wanted a magazine that celebrated the spookier months year round. A place that welcomes the weird and hones in on the horror of All Hallows’ Eve. A peek through the veil when it’s at its thinnest—when the dead walk among the living.
So, Halloween is the perfect theme for our first issue as a literary press who publishes annually on All Hallows’ Eve. This magazine is something we intend to continue while opening submissions throughout the year for spooky tales to feature on the Dark Reads section of our website.
My aim with this issue is to create a fusion of horror and nostalgia, to frighten and to welcome home. So, this magazine is a homage to the morbid and macabre, the sickening and the spooky. We are the quiet weird kids with so much to say. And we don’t care about who you know, just the story you have to tell.
In our pieces tonight we see haunting imagery reminiscent of Poe and self-reflective language like that of Dickinson on simplistic pages that allow the words to speak for themselves. But don’t just take my word for it, sink your teeth into our contents page to find something to satisfy your hunger on the darkest night of the year.
A special thank you to my wonderful skeleton crew, from reading to editing—this issue would not be here without you! And to our morbid contributors, we hope you adorn your thin veils tonight with honour as you become immortalised in our crypt.
Now thats all straightened out, it’s officially midnight on All Hallows’ Eve and so through the veil we must peek...
And remember, even if the sun is shining and the birds are chirping, it’s always Halloween at Thin Veil Press.
Stay spooky,
Meg Keane
Editor-in-Chief
