Spectral Realms No. 17

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  • A Weird Poetry Journal
  • Edited by S. T. Joshi
  • Cover art and design by Daniel V. Sauer
  • No. 17 (Summer 2022)
  • 142 pages
  • ISBN 9781614983873
  • ISSN 2333-4215

 

 

This issue of Spectral Realms is dedicated to the late Richard L. Tierney (1936–2022), one of the pioneering weird poets of our time. Included is an unpublished poem by Tierney and poetic tributes to him by Leigh Blackmore and Charles Lovecraft.

 

As always, the issue contains scintillating work by some of the leading weird versifiers of the present day, including Wade German, Frank Coffman, Ian Futter, and Scott J. Couturier. John Shirley, Darrell Schweitzer, Don Webb, and Geoffrey Reiter demonstrate that they are masters of terror in poetry as well as in prose fiction. Lori I. Lopez explores the strangeness of cats in “La Gata,” while LindaAnn LoSchiavo tells of the grim fate of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s wife. David Barker and Ngo Binh Anh Khoa write evocative poetry in the Lovecraftian mode, and Josh Maybrook contributes an acrostic sonnet on Poe. Adam Bolivar continues his work in Anglo-Saxon meter, while Carl E. Reed sends in a “ghoulish tale” in verse. Prose poems by Maxwell I. Gold and Manuel Arenas also enliven the issue.

 

Among the classic reprints is a poem, “Vampire,” by Bertrande Harry Snell, from a 1929 issue of Weird Tales, as well as a poem by veteran fantasy poet Lilith Lorraine. Marcos Legaria contributes an essay on R. H. Barlow’s early poetry.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Poems

Slouching toward Yuggoth / Richard L. Tierney

To Richard L. Tierney: In Memoriam / Leigh Blackmore

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: An Extended Surveil / Carl E. Reed

A Promise for Today / Maxwell I. Gold

La Gata / Lori R. Lopez

Footsteps in the Night / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa

The Golden Age / Charles Lovecraft

I Met a Girl in a Cemetery / John Shirley

I See Too Much: A Clairvoyant’s Complaint / Frank Coffman

House / Rebecca Fraser

Malice Must Dwell within Your Heart / Darrell Schweitzer

The Nachzehrer / Scott J. Couturier

The Path of Grey / Adam Bolivar

Semblance / David Barker

A Creature of the Twilight / Wade German

Cometfall / DJ Tyrer

Candy Corn Caresses / Ashley Dioses

The Garden of Night / Andrew White

Death Confession: A Golden Shovel / LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Communion / Manuel Pérez-Campos

The Witch’s Tree / Jay Hardy

Last Soldier on the Beach / Jay Sturner

The Black Goat / Linn Donlon

Knowing the Dragon / Geoffrey Reiter

Battle against the Dark Lord / Jordan Zuniga

Spider / Don Webb

Antiquarian Research / David C. Kopaska-Merkel

A Little Song of Death / Carl E. Reed

The Court of Azathoth / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa

Destiny / David Schembri

A Song of Two Deaths / Ian Futter

Flower of Evil / Manuel Arenas

Nordic Instinct / Charles Lovecraft

The Lady in the Wood / Geoffrey Reiter

In the Beginning / Melissa Ridley Elmes

In Her Defence / Claire Smith

By What Right Do You Call Yourself Patience? / Thomas Goff

Incubus / Scott J. Couturier

Heolstor / Adam Bolivar

Cast / Ron L. Johnson II

Phantasms / Wade German

The Seeker’s Lament / Frank Coffman

A Crime of Passion / G. O. Clark

On the Fantasque Ballet Premiere of Afternoon of a Faun / Manuel Pérez-Campos

Yethwood / Oliver Smith

Whalesong / DJ Tyrer

Dusk / Andrew White

Nativity / David Barker

Blindsight / Lori R. Lopez

Bold Voyager / Darrell Schweitzer

The Daemon Lord / Chad Hensley

Eye of Sapphire, Eye of Emerald / Kurt Newton

Survive against the Swarm / Jordan Zuniga

Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, Cemetery Superstar / LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Blackburn’s Bloom / Manuel Arenas

Essential Guide to the Land of Dream / David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Watch and Wait / Margaret Curtis

The Ghosts’ Autumnal Fair / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa

Churchyard Passacaglia / Thomas Goff

Fat Man and Yellow-Eyes: A Ghoulish Tale / Carl E. Reed

On Reading Poe / Josh Maybrook

Cats Which Walk in Dreams / Linn Donlon

How the World Ends / Melissa Ridley Elmes

When Cyber Things Return / Maxwell I. Gold

Zeohyr’s Allure / Scott J. Couturier

The Squire of Sweven / Adam Bolivar

Whispers from a Crematory Skull / Manuel Pérez-Campos

Unrepaired / DJ Tyrer

Of the Swordsman of Words and Worlds: Eldritchard / Charles Lovecraft

 

Classic Reprints

Funeral of a Vampire / Lilith Lorraine

Vampire / Bertrande Harry Snell

 

Articles

R. H. Barlow and the Activist Poets: How Did They Meet? / Marcos Legaria

 

Notes on Contributors

 

 



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