gri·moire
ɡrimˈwär/
noun
a book of magic spells and invocations
WE ARE GRIMOIRE, an online literary publication of the dark arts. We publish one themed issue annually that includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and work that moves beyond genre.
S T A F F
Jessica Berger, Editor
Jessica Berger is a Chicago-based fiction writer and occasional critic whose work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Suspira, The Rupture, Barrelhouse, Pank, Gamut, Maudlin House, The Spectacle, Dream Pop, and elsewhere. Her fields of interest include experimental fiction, the places where realism blurs with the speculative, and all things cinematic. She is also an editor with Always Crashing.
👽 Her mirror: mall goth realism, altered states, operatic scale, Cronenbergian body horror, Clarice Lispector, The Magick Lantern Cycle, saturated Giallo and Technicolor landscapes, David Lynch, Kathy Acker, psychosomatic manifestation, vampirism, Persona, Yma Sumac, trypophobia, the transformations of Tilda Swinton, disco eroticism, Alexander McQueen + Isabella Blow, camp performance, the dreamscapes of Federico Fellini, subversive melodrama, eschatology, Valerie and her Week of Wonders, Eve Babitz, the Roden Crater, sex parties in the catacombs, Euphoria, drag, Cindy Sherman, Joan Didion, the Kardashian embrace of autosexuality, Jean Cocteau, 70s glam rock, unreliable narrators, creeping doubt, Junji Ito, Funeral Parade of Roses, Anna Karina, Possession, Angela Carter’s baroque use of language, Paul Delvaux, migraine auras, Ottessa Moshfegh, Wong Kar Wai, Orlando, excess, failing the Voight-Kampff
Annah Browning, Editor
Annah Browning hails from the foothills of South Carolina, but now calls southern Illinois home. Her first collection of poems, Witch Doctrine, is available through University of Akron Press. She is also the author of a chapbook, The Marriage, from Horse Less Press, and her poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Willow Springs, The Southeast Review, and other journals. More information about her and whatever secret project she is working on at the moment can be found by visiting www.annahbrowning.com, or by consulting your friendly neighborhood oracle.
✨ Her mirror: witches, the uncanny, Emily Dickinson; the intelligence of the corvid family; fungi, the Amanitas Phalloides, the “madwoman”; poison garden, the ecogothic; rain-soaked manuscripts in the abandoned hall; queernesses of all kinds; Ruth Stone, Laura Jensen, my great-grandmother with an ax; glitter as a form of resistance; Camp, the opera; Edward Gorey, cozy-ass meals and staying in bed; Joan Aiken and Sylvia Plath; ghosts and ghosting; evil plants, erasures and ectoplasm; Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint; cryptids and aliens; Grey Gardens, Black Forager; drag artistry, pulp horror cover art, bestiaries of the Anthropocene; full metal indigiqueer; Leonora Carrington, folk horror, and folklore; mycelium and Unsolved Mysteries, aesthetic vampires in romantic desolation; Shirley Jackson and spontaneous combustion; Japanese Zen death poems, Appalachian granny witches, all literature that speculates; Sedmikrasky and Švankmejer; Tales of Moonlight and Rain; elder goths and Goya’s black paintings; body horror, decadence, unlikely teeth and claws; Mariana Enriquez, White is for Witching; uncontrollable flames, forgotten surrealists.
Brooke Wonders, Editor
Brooke Wonders, if that is her real name, was found to be "intense," "earnest," and "somewhat disappointing" by a panel of impartial judges. Her nonfiction and fiction have appeared in DIAGRAM, The Dark, and Apex Magazine, among others. She blogs sporadically at girlwonders.wordpress.com.
🦷 Her mirror: speculative nonfiction, In the Dream House, Oulipian constraint, The Merry Spinster, winter witches, Song for the Unraveling of the World, Jorge Luis Borges, Kelly Link, Amelia Gray, the necropastoral and the ecoGothic, A Head Full of Ghosts, mental illness, The Dark and Nightmare magazines, Miss Havisham, the world you made up as a child, the monster you fear as an adult, The Orange Eats Creeps, automatic writing, Lynda Barry, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, mise en abyme, body horror, the feminist grotesque, Princess Langwidere, Jonathan Bellairs, night terrors and sleep paralysis, murder houses, murder ballads, Victor LaValle, Baba Yaga, Roald Dahl, the Jabberwock with eyes of flame, eschatology
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