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 Included is an unpublished poem by Tierney and poetic tributes to him by Leigh Blackmore and Charles Lovecraft.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
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 13 July, 2022.