the editor

Charlie Perseus (he/they) spends his time attempting to paint the devil with words— when he isn’t busy with graduate school or editing warning lines literary. He wrote the poetry chapbooks PLACES (Gutslut Press, 2022), and AUTHOR OF ALL ILL (fifth wheel press, 2023), and has been featured in The NoSleep Podcast, the HELL IS REAL Anthology, and others. His work is often connected to his own transness, Otherness, and monstrosity. Find him on twitter @beelzebadger.

Currently, he's pursuing an MA in Anglophone Literature at Karlstad University and other universities in Sweden, where he lives with his cat and most of his friends in a very unusual queer collective. Most recently, he worked on a thesis related to human monstrosity in contemporary gothic fiction.

Charlie's editorial decisions and his own creative practice are often grounded upon his academic interests. Some of Charlie’s favorite areas, themes, and approaches to explore are: the gothic, the Dionysian, the monstrous, trans studies, critical discourse analysis, queer theory, intersectionality, and the satanic (particularly Miltonic and Queer satanisms). Because of his own experiences of marginalization due to being trans, queer, Latino, multiply disabled, and an immigrant, Charlie (and therefore warning lines) highly values social and political justice, anti-discrimination, anti-racism, and all other defiances against the oppressive cisheteronormative, ableist, white supremacist systems on which the current world operates.

If you’d like to get to know more of his work, try the following (free to access):

“L’Appel du Vide” — audio script, audio adaptation by The NoSleep Podcast (2022)

“ad inferos” — poetry, The Minison Project (2022) [NOMINATED FOR PUSHCART PRIZE]

“Husktown, USA” — horror flash fiction, The HELL IS REAL Anthology (2022)

“On Being Caught by ICE and Caged” – creative non-fiction, The Bitchin' Kitsch's All My Relations Vol. 2 (2022), [NOMINATED FOR BEST OF THE NET]

“A Morbid Longing for the Picturesque”: The Pursuit of Beauty in Donna Tartt's The Secret History – Research paper, Södertörns Univesity via DiVA (2021)

“She Watches Me” – Horror short story, audio adaptation by The NoSleep Podcast, (2021)

“fated endings” & “sunrise” – poetry, The Midnight Mass Anthology (2021)