Issue No. I · Autumn 2026
The Unquiet House
The inaugural issue of The Mourning Lamp enters the rooms, memories, absences, and unseen presences that refuse to remain entirely behind us.
- Publication
- October 31, 2026
- Edition
- Digital Edition · PDF
- Theme
- Memory · Place · Presence · The Unseen
About the Issue
There are places we leave behind that never quite leave us.
A childhood room. An empty chair. A hallway remembered differently after dark. A house that carries the voices of people who no longer live there.
Sometimes the places that haunt us are physical. Sometimes they exist only in memory. And sometimes we are not entirely certain where one ends and the other begins.
With The Unquiet House, the first issue of The Mourning Lamp, we enter those spaces.
Contents
Inside Issue No. I
Selected poems and contributors appearing in The Unquiet House. The poems themselves appear only in the complete edition.
Listed alphabetically by contributor
After the Exorcism
Pietà
RETURN, Collapsing Country School House
THE HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE MOSS
The House at the End of the Street
Cenotaph
The Bridge
Rückgrat
Half Left
The Mourning Lamp
Cellar Door
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