The tenth issue of Spectral Realms demonstrates that this journal of weird poetry is going strong as it completes its fifth year of publication. Once again, this issue features the work of many of the leading voices in contemporary weird verse: Wade German, Adam Bolivar, Christina Sng, Frank Coffman, Ann K. Schwader, Chad Hensley, Thomas Tyrrell, and Ian Futter. Manuel Arenas, Liam Garriock, David Barker, and others provide vivid prose-poems. Jeff Hall’s “In the Garden of Thasaidon” is a tribute to Clark Ashton Smith, while Manuel Pérez-Campos’s “The Mirror of Arkham Woe” draws inspiration from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space.”
The classic reprints feature a pair of scintillating haunted-house poems by the acclaimed American poets Lizette Woodworth Reese and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Marcos Legaria supplies the second part of his study of Clark Ashton Smith’s influence on Robert Nelson, quoting the entirety of Nelson’s vivid poem “Dream-Stair” (Weird Tales, April 1935).
Among the reviews, Leigh Blackmore studies the October 2018 issue of Eye to the Telescope, the online journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and Donald Sidney-Fryer contributes a review-article on the brilliant work of G. Sutton Breiding.
As a special bonus, a complete index of authors and titles to all ten issues of Spectral Realms is provided.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
The Name on the Grave / Thomas Tyrrell
Eurynomos / Wade German
Winter / Charles D. O’Connor III
Conjuring in Cupid’s Garden / Claire Smith
The Haunting Bones / Adam Bolivar
The Island / Christina Sng
The Promise of Eternity / Kurt Newton
Salem Liberation / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Herpetology / F. J. Bergmann
The Witches’ Rite at Beltane / Frank Coffman
The Old Ones: A Ghazal / Joshua Gage
Last Ascent / Ann K. Schwader
Morbidezza / Manuel Arenas
Life Decayed / Ashley Dioses
Lord of Pumpkins / Scott J. Couturier
Nighttime Visitor Where Cats Prowl / Randall D. Larson
Unnatural Man / Mary Krawczak Wilson
One Who Walks Alone / Carl E. Reed
When the Nightwind Howls / Leigh Blackmore
Going Forth by Night / Margi Curtis
After the Cryptozoic / Kendall Evans
The Assignment / Liam Garriock
A Ride in Hilo / Chad Hensley
Supernumerary / Mike Allen and S. Brackett Robertson
Bathysphere / Oliver Smith
The Forsaken Idol / David Barker
In the Garden of Thasaidon / Jeff Hall
The Dark King / Allan Rozinski
The Offspring / Barbara Barrett
The Mirror of Arkham Woe / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Driver of the Dragon’s Coach / Wade German
Mad Jack-a-Lee / Adam Bolivar
The Dutchman / Frank Coffman
The Light at the End of the Tunnel / Christina Sng
Gargoyle / Manuel Arenas
To a Black Hole / Charles Lovecraft
All Will Taste Death / Ross Balcom
The Birth of Brahma / Rich Catalano
The Frightful Ballad of the Third Lord Boyce / Thomas Tyrrell
Maculation / F. J. Bergmann
Bone Riders / Kurt Newton
From Spectral Realms / Leigh Blackmore
Inescapable Horror / Liam Garriock
Forbidden Fruit / Scott J. Couturier
Factotum of the Underworld / David Barker
The Witches’ Bower / Leigh Blackmore
Warnings to the Curious / Frank Coffman
Winter / Ian Futter
Chronoscape Advisory / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Lazarus Laments / Allan Rozinski
Classic Reprints
The Deserted House / Lizette Woodworth Reese
The Dark House / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Articles
Clark Ashton Smith and Robert Nelson: Master and Apprentice (Part 2) / Marcos Legaria
Reviews
Witches, Traditional and Otherwise / Leigh Blackmore
A Poetic Original / Donald Sidney-Fryer
Notes on Contributors
Index to Spectral Realms 1–10
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 22 January, 2019.
