• A Night at Old Webb

    Pre-Order the next Clifton Heights story from Kevin Lucia! “A Night at Old Webb” is an intimate tale of youth, wonder, attraction, and exploration of mystical places. Blurring the lines between memoir and fiction, it’s an unsettlingly sweet and sad story about friends, new and old, standing around being young together.” Mercedes M. Yardley, author…

  • An Update on June, 2015

    June is our anniversary month (birthday month?) here at Apokrupha. We became official in June of 2012 after over a decade of dreaming, plotting and wanting. We are behind in the June 2015 issue of LampLight. This is for a few reasons, but mostly, if I dare pull back the curtain some, it is because…

  • AMA on r/Books 20 May 2015

    There will be an AMA (ask me anything!) on Reddit in r/Books with LampLight editor, Jacob Haddon on 20 May 2015! Come by, we’ll be talking Lamplight, lit mags and probably a few random things as well. We will post the link on the day! http://reddit.com/r/books

  • LampLight Subscription Drive

    We want LampLight to be a professional market. But being ‘professional’ is so much more than just a per-word payment amount. It also means payment for our editing team. It means polite, professional staff; well formatted ebooks and print copies; and most importantly, it means a readership worthy of the name. And so we are…

  • LampLight Volume 3 Issue 2

    Print – Smashwords – Kindle – Nook – iBooks – Kobo December 2014 Our featured artist is Mercedes Yardley. We talk to her about her work and her art. Kelli Owen brings us part two of her serial novella, Wilted Lillies. Featuring stories by Tom Brennan Salena Casha Rati Mehrotra J. J. Green A meteor…

  • LampLight Print Edition Preview

    Hello, hello! It occurred to me that in this new age of digital marketing and online sales that one of the most basic elements to a magazine was going to be missed: flipping through a copy on the newsstand. So here is a taste, if you will, of what you can find in LampLight. Our…

  • Review of LampLight Volume One on Shock Totem

    John Boden of Shock Totem reviews the first annual of LampLight. He says: “Overall, Lamplight is a great publication with a fine eye for dark fiction. A comrade more than competition. In this business, we need more of the former and less of the latter. We’re all on the same ship, in the same choppy…

  • Interview with John Boden

    With John Boden, one of the editors at Shock Totem, author of Dominoes and bearer of some of the most impressive sideburns in this hemisphere. We talk to him about Dominoes, the new issue of Shock Totem and even spoken word. * * * APOK: Dominoes is a unique offering, apocalypse in a prose poem…

  • Interview with James D. Jenkins

    With James D. Jenkins from Valancourt Books, a press which specializing in bringing older books back into availability (something we LampLight people think is pretty awesome!). Their press will soon release the last of the horrid novels from Northanger Abby, and we spoke to Jay about that and some of their other endeavors. * *…

  • Wieland, LampLight Classics #3

    Paperback by Charles Brockden Brown Wieland, or The Transformation, was written by Charles Brocken Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810). First published in 1798, it is considered the first Gothic novel written by an American author. Brought to America after the French and Indian war with their family, Clara Wieland and her brother…