Issue Twenty-Two, February 2026
Issue Twenty-Two of Haven Spec Magazine is ready! This issue is full of the uncanny, the spooky, and the delightfully strange, and in these pages, you'll find fiction by Lex Chamberlin, Janel Comeau, Cressida Roe, Dafydd McKimm, and Lee Zanello; poetry by Eleanor Ball, Sophia Zhao, Marisca Pichette, Arthur H. Manners, and Erin Brown; a poetry round-up by our poetry editor Jessica Peter, and thoughts on the issue's fiction by our very own associate editors!
Subscribers get the issue on February 13th, 2026, and the free-to-read online version goes up on February 23rd!
Cover Artist
Matthew Spencer
Matthew Spencer is a queer illustrator from Michigan. His work appears in The Chromatic Fates Tarot, Crow & Crown’s Mausoleum, and several Neon Hemlock publications. When not creating artwork for freelance clients or Every Day Original, Matt spends his time illustrating his own tarot deck and finding ways to combine his love of moody watercolors with the inspiration he draws from history, folklore, and nature.
Table of Contents
Fiction
Fragments of Sky in Quantum Grief by Lex Chamberlin
She Will Help You The Only Way She Knows How by Janel Comeau
Skin Deep by Cressida Roe
Tring-a-Ling by Dafydd McKimm
We are the Giants We Fear by Lee Zanello
Poetry
If I must exist here, by Eleanor Ball
Fairest One by Sophia Zhao
Persephone Wins Custody of Herself by Marisca Pichette
Roommate by Arthur H. Manners
Mothercraft (a villanelle) by Erin Brown
Non-Fiction
Letter from the Editor by Leon Perniciaro
Poetry for the End of the World by Jessica Peter
Little Fiction Reviews by The Editors of Haven Spec Magazine