The Semiotic Standard is the irregularly updated speculative fiction journal for horror author R. Leigh Hennig featuring essays, art, short stories, reviews, guest articles, the occasional engineering rant, and whatever else that comes to mind.
R. Leigh Hennig is an author, editor, and horror enthusiast from New England. Previously he taught a series of classes on horror in literature with the King County Library System in Seattle, was the editor-in-chief of Bastion Science Fiction Magazine, and a regular volunteer with the Horror Writer’s Association. For a time he pursued his MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell.
His fiction is upcoming or has appeared in:
British Fantasy Society Horizons (Summer, 2023)
Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase vol. IX (HWA, Fall 2022)
Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds, September 2022—2022 Bram Stoker Award-nominated)
The Antihumanist, 4th Edition (The Antihumanist, May 2022)
Love Letters to Poe, Volume 1 (Love Letters to Poe, September, 2021—2022 Saturday 'Visitor' Award)
Strange Lands Short Stories (Flame Tree Press, November, 2020)
Shallow Waters Volume 6 (Crystal Lake Publishing, September, 2020)
He fits these things around his day job in Boston, where he serves as Chief Network Architect for the largest datacenter in New England. He co-founded Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, previously serving as its Director of Operations. Specializing in network architecture and automation at scale, he’s worked on closed projects with or for Amazon Web Services, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NASA, JPL, and various three-letter-agencies for much of his career.
He is an Active Professional Member of the Horror Writer’s Association and Codex.
Contact him at [email protected].