This is the eighth issue of JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature, vol. 4, no. 2, Whole #8, Autumnal Equinox 2025. JOURN-E is a journal of speculative literature and art across the several genres of the high imagination: Adventure, Detection & Mystery, Fantasy, Horror & the Supernatural, and Science Fiction. JOURN-E features contemporary and "classic" short fiction, poetry, illustration, and non-fiction in these genres.