Spectral Realms completes its eighth year of publication with an issue that displays the full gamut of expression in weird poetry!
Aside from contributions by some of the leading exponents of terror in verse (Christina Sng, Adam Bolivar, Ann K. Schwader, Wade German, Frank Coffman), we have such distinctive items as Ngo Binh Anh Khoa’s adaptation of a Korean poetic form to the King in Yellow mythos; Adele Gardner’s evocative poem on Edgar Allan Poe; David Barker’s ongoing reinterpretations of Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth; Scott J. Couturier’s tribute to the inherent strangeness of cats (“Gray Grimalkin”); Carl E. Reed’s grim ballad of World War I (“We Met in No-Man’s Land”); Margaret Curtis’s paean to the “Zombie Moon”; and Lori I. Lopez’s long poem on the whippoorwill. In addition, prose-poems by Maxwell I. Gold, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Harris Coverley, Jay Sturner, and Manuel Arenas grace the issue.
The “Classic Reprints” include poems by two California poets of more than a century ago, Ina Coolbrith and Henry Anderson Lafler. Donald Sidney-Fryer reviews the correspondence of Clark Ashton Smith and Samuel Loveman as well as a new, expanded edition of Loveman’s collected poetry and other writings, Out of the Immortal Night. All in all, another rich feast for the devotee of the weird in poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
Acid Rain / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Father’s Bullet: A Tale of the Apocalypse / Carl E. Reed
Lenore to Her Tragic Muse, Edgar Allan Poe / Adele Gardner
Medusa / Christina Sng
The King of Cats / Adam Bolivar
The Great Parade / Maxwell I. Gold
Date Night / Melissa Ridley Elmes
The Pillarist of Leptis Magna / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Otherworld / Lori R. Lopez
The Bog-Track / Ann K. Schwader
Children of the Night / DJ Tyrer
Saith the Witch / Wade German
The Clingers / Frank Coffman
In the Graveyard, Decomposing / LindaAnn LoSchiavo
The Flotsam of Want / Claire Smith
Star Dust / Geoffrey Reiter
Betrayed / Christine Irving
A Frosty Love / Charles Lovecraft
The Mad Scientist’s Assistant / Darrell Schweitzer
Gray Grimalkin / Scott J. Couturier
Altagracia’s Lament / Manuel Arenas
Water Slave / Harris Coverley
The Unlocking / David Barker
Incubus / P. B. Grant
My Sweetheart’s Name Is Despair / John Shirley
Tonight’s Tale: Devil County, USA / Mack W. Mani
Palazzo San Felice / Benjamin Blake
River Dweller / Jordan Zuniga
We Met in No-Man’s-Land / Carl E. Reed
Bone-Taster / Thomas Goff
Mukkelevi / Melissa Ridley Elmes
Ealren Halgena Æfen / Wade German
Infernal Carnival / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Harvest Reaped and Threshed / Oliver Smith
All Fires Light the Wicker Man / Scott J. Couturier
Zombie Moon / Margaret Curtis
Eidolon Tetratych / Frank Coffman
Written in Smoke / Ann K. Schwader
The Beast with a Billion Stomachs / Maxwell I. Gold
The Whippoorwill / Lori R. Lopez
Digging Beneath the Battlefield / Steven Withrow
The Dark Sorcerer / Charles Lovecraft
On Finding the Man / Holly Day
As the Dream Descends / Kurt Newton
The Poltergeists of Park Slope / LindaAnn LoSchiavo
City of Carrion, Valley of Darkness / Harris Coverley
Hand of Glory / Manuel Arenas
In a Haunted Holler / Adam Bolivar
Lines on the Mistress of an Old Sea-Town / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Those That We Meet in Dark Country Lanes / Darrell Schweitzer
The God of Dark Fantasy Prose-Poetry / Jay Sturner
Aubade / Paul Grant
Starfall / Melissa Ridley Elmes
The Mimics / Christina Sng
Gilgamesh in Mourning / Geoffrey Reiter
The King in Yellow / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Dominion of the Son of the Dragon / Jordan Zuniga
City of Dreams / Maxwell I. Gold
The Outsider / Carl E. Reed
Zwartenberg the Necromancer / Manuel Arenas
Our Last Halloween / Adele Gardner
Crypt Currency / Wade German
The Pixie-Ring / Scott J. Couturier
Serenade for Black Plague Gwynneth / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Lorelei / Frank Coffman
Classic Reprints
Beside the Dead / Ina Coolbrith
The Pearl / Henry Anderson Lafler
Reviews
Born under Saturn Indeed / Donald Sidney-Fryer
Phantasmascope / Donald Sidney-Fryer
Notes on Contributors
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 January, 2022.
