The Literary Hatchet is a bi-annual literary edition of The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden's Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History. The Literary The Literary Hatchet is a bi-annual literary magazine that publishes 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.