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Issue No. I · Autumn 2026

The Unquiet House

There are places we leave behind that never quite leave us.

The Mourning Lamp

Poetry for the darker rooms of human experience.

We publish poetry drawn toward the Gothic, eerie, melancholic, supernatural, macabre, strange, haunting, and quietly unsettling.

About The Mourning Lamp

Submissions

The first issue is here.

Selections for The Unquiet House are complete, and Issue No. I was published October 31, 2026.

Future submission calls will be announced here and through The Mourning Lamp mailing list.