Welcome to Stygian Lepus #30, where the shadows don’t just fall — they think, watching you from the edges of perception. This thirtieth edition leads you deeper into the labyrinth of dark speculative fiction, where horror, dread, and strange wonder twist together in unsettling ways.
11 Dec 2025
This issue is dedicated in part to the memory of Dennis McFadden—whose final story appears within—celebrating a voice that shaped the magazine’s dark heart.
23 Nov 2025
When poetry meets vengeance in the heart of coal country, justice bleeds in verse.
23 Nov 2025
When time runs backward through a haunted window, one man’s curiosity becomes a descent through history itself.
23 Nov 2025
What if healing your grief meant giving your memories—and your child—to someone else?
23 Nov 2025
When a desperate man steals a stranger’s phone, it unlocks a job—and a nightmare—that won’t let him hang up.
18 Oct 2025
The lepus stands at the edge of a new abyss, ears twitching to the rhythm of tomorrow’s nightmares. The next leap may be its last—or its greatest.
18 Oct 2025
Two lovers on the edge of escape, bound by music, folklore, and each other—until the night the forest calls one of them away.
24 Aug 2025
Here, hope is a trick of the light. Every promise glimmers—until you touch it.
24 Aug 2025
When your soul is on the line, how much are you willing to consume to be saved?
09 Aug 2025
The candle sputters low, but the words refuse to fade. Even the shadows have learned how to write.
09 Aug 2025
When justice rides into a forsaken border town, even monsters have reason to fear the night.
31 May 2025
When the mist never lifts and the nightmares become real, only one thing is certain—no one escapes the sea’s ancient hunger.
31 May 2025
A haunting tale of love, loss, and apocalypse, where tumbleweeds are the harbingers of grief and humanity’s unraveling.
31 May 2025
When the first human mission to Venus goes disastrously off-script, only impossible choices and the bonds of friendship stand between history and oblivion.
31 May 2025
Silver anniversary—if silver could bleed. This issue celebrates endurance, madness, and the art of never dying quietly.
31 May 2025
They said the dark was empty. Then came the poets, and the dark began to dream.
19 Apr 2025
She came for love, for freedom—but what she found was something far darker, and it had been waiting for her all along.
30 Mar 2025
The world is dying, the sky is burning, and survival is no longer enough—what if the end isn’t the end at all?
25 Mar 2025
The lepus laughs in the ruins of its own myth. Creation, after all, is just another form of destruction.
14 Mar 2025
Every story here is a confession dressed as fiction. The sins are real—the names have merely changed.
13 Feb 2025
What if the lines between virtual reality and reality weren’t just blurred—they were shattered?
17 Jan 2025
The ink runs blacker this time. Perhaps it remembers too much.
16 Jan 2025
Twenty turns of the moon, twenty descents into the mire. Still the lepus digs, unearthing truths best left unspoken.
01 Jan 2025
A fragile mind, a whispering darkness, and a pact older than time—and a world where no one is safe from the gods’ relentless grip.
23 Dec 2024
The veil quivers like breath on glass. Beyond it, the stories whisper your name.
08 Dec 2024
Jeremy Collins wakes up to a world that feels wrong—and discovers a terrifying truth lurking just beyond sight.
01 Dec 2024
Wickedness blooms in strange soil. Here, horror wears the face of beauty and calls it art.
23 Nov 2024
What would you do if you discovered that the person quietly watching the world from a park bench held the key to the unseen stories of an entire city?
01 Nov 2024
When the skies rain fire and the world turns to chaos, a mother’s desperate race to save her child reveals an even darker enemy lurking in the ashes.
29 Oct 2024
The hare’s shadow stretches longer with every edition. It’s no longer clear who’s chasing whom—the writers or the dark.
28 Oct 2024
When an ambitious chemist ventures into a forbidden dimension, he must confront unimaginable horrors that threaten to unravel his mind and humanity.
26 Oct 2024
In a chilling investigation of an abandoned farmhouse, two ghost hunters uncover far more than spirits—what they find threatens to unravel the very fabric of reality.
22 Oct 2024
In a world on the brink of annihilation, a young drummer with a secret weapon must lead humanity’s final stand against an unstoppable alien force.
19 Oct 2024
When a hidden basement reveals not only bodies but a freezer that opens to the 9th Circle of Hell, a simple discovery turns into a fight against ancient evils that defy explanation.
15 Oct 2024
Silence hums between the lines, a lullaby for the damned. You’ll read it once, but it will keep reading you forever.
14 Oct 2024
In a world where society’s outcasts are forced to scavenge from the ruling elite, one unlikely hero must decide whether to stay hidden in the shadows or spark a revolution that could change everything.
12 Oct 2024
When a mysterious stranger offers a dying village salvation through an ancient, enigmatic device, the villagers must decide if the price for renewed life is worth the haunting, unnatural consequences.
08 Oct 2024
In the eerie shadows of Hartsgrove, a reclusive woman known as a witch prepares her Christmas meal, but when her sinister companion vanishes, the town begins to fear what she might be cooking up next.
05 Oct 2024
When Eve discovers the ancient magic lurking in the shadows of her family's cursed past, she must decide whether the promise of freedom is worth the dark price that the Spring Hare demands.
30 Sep 2024
When explorers unearth Amelia Earhart’s journal, they awaken a deadly secret buried with it—one that blurs the line between history and haunting.
28 Sep 2024
Some say the stories in this issue were written by ghosts. Others say the authors just never stopped writing after they died.
21 Sep 2024
Dreams rot here, sweetly. Their perfume draws the curious—and devours them whole.
14 Sep 2024
Luck has nothing to do with this issue. Every page dares you to turn it, knowing the next one might stare back.
07 Sep 2024
Jess has endured more than her fair share of pain. When a cosmic catastrophe wipes out half of humanity, Jess finds a peculiar kind of peace in the disappearance of her abuser.
24 Aug 2024
The lepus returned, fur matted with ash and moonlight. What it brought back from the void may yet burn us all.
30 May 2024
A storm gathers over the ink-black sea, and every flash reveals another secret face. The tide brings stories best left drowned.
14 May 2024
Steel and bone collide in a symphony of pain and progress. Welcome to a future where the human heart still beats, but not always for long.
07 May 2024
The harvest moon rises, and so too do the buried tales. Each one claws through the soil, desperate to be read before dawn.
24 Jan 2024
Laughter rings hollow through this warren of stories. The punchline, as always, is death.
10 Dec 2023
When the lepus looked skyward, it saw constellations spelling new horrors. The universe, it seems, delights in our trembling.
06 Oct 2023
Beneath the flickering candlelight, every poem becomes a séance. The veil is thinner here, and the words remember what you’ve done.
26 Sep 2023
Ink dripped like blood into the soil of forgotten myth. What grew from it was neither plant nor prose, but something hungry.
31 Aug 2023
This time, the dark doesn’t just watch—it writes back. Each story here carries teeth marks from the night that birthed it.
21 Aug 2023
The moon hung low over the lepus’s burrow, silvering the edges of madness. Within, writers gathered to trade their dreams for something colder.
23 Apr 2023
Whispers crawled through the ink, promising nightmares wrapped in beauty. Every page breathed like skin—warm, alive, and waiting.
23 Jan 2023
In the shadows of creation, the first hare stirred—its heartbeat echoing through stories of dread and wonder. The darkness blinked, and literature found its reflection in the void.
01 Jan 2023