The Literary Hatchet is the literary edition of The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies. The Literary The Literary Hatchet publishes three times a year and consists of contemporary short fiction, poetry, prose, photography, cartoons, and humor by established and emerging writers and artists from around the world. Subjects range from mystery, murder, macabre, horror, monsters, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night.