The twenty-second issue of Spectral Realms features its customary allotment of poems long and short by such leading figures as Ann K. Schwader, D. L. Myers, Scott J. Couturier, Wade German, John Shirley, Darrell Schweitzer, and Adam Bolivar. Lori R. Lopez’s long poem “Beastly” tells of terrors on the sea is matched by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa’s poetic narrative of death and madness. Carl E. Reed etches a grim account of the horrors of war. Among other items are Adele Gardner’s haunting Halloween poem, Manuel Pérez-Campos’s poetic interpretation of the paintings of Nicholas Roerich, Frank Coffman’s riff on the “King in Yellow” mythology, David Barker’s continuing poetic interpretations of Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth cycle, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel’s disturbing poem about a lamia. Prose poems by Manuel Arenas and Maxwell I. Gold also grace the issue.
Of the classic reprints, one is a weird poem by the celebrated Canadian poet Archibald Lampman and the other is a rare poem from Weird Tales by pulpmeister E. Hoffmann Price.
Kyle Lee Ward sensitively reviews a new poetry collection by Colleen Anderson, while S. T. Joshi assesses two scintillating volumes by K. A. Opperman.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
Lost in a Dream / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
I Spoke the Incantations / Scott J. Couturier
Heartbreak / Claire Smith
Weird Sisters Three / Manuel Arenas
Unpleasant Dreams / Geoffrey Reiter
The Hands That Hold Me / Joshua Green
Shell Shock: 2016 / Carl E. Reed
Amongst the Shelves / Lee Clark Zumpe
Beastly / Lori R. Lopez
The Lyre of Lúca / Adam Bolivar
Batrachian Prophets / Joshua Gage
at the edge of the sea / Kurt Newton
What Have You Done? / J. D. Dresner
Through the Darkness Shines . . . / Michael Potts
Last Cry unto the Night / Adam Amberden
A Swigger’s Saunter Down a Shunned Street / C. R. Molœny
Charnel Mysteries / Katherine Kerestman
Carcosan Shadows / Frank Coffman
When Daylight Dies / Andrew White
Credo / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Aberration / Joshua Green
Due Diligence / DJ Tyrer
The Night-Traveler, by Day, Keeps His Secrets / Silvatiicus Riddle
In the Halls of the Dead / Ann K. Schwader
Crimson Dawn / D. L. Myers
Elemental Pact / William Clunie
The Necromancer’s Leman / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Progeny / David Barker
Grave Bell / Scott J. Couturier
Where the Shadows Bleed / Lee Clark Zumpe
Casting Out / Ian Futter
The Great Night / Adele Gardner
Night of the Sorcerers / Wade German
I Hear the Numbers / Maxwell I. Gold
Three Sonnets of the Weird / John Shirley
I Know There Is a Sunrise / Darrell Schweitzer
Ghosts / Kurt Newton
Committed in Sanity / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Wells of the Weird: Ars Poetica / Carl E. Reed
Horror Home / Frank Coffman
The Blithebrook Fountain: A Folly / Steven Withrow
Five Full Moons / Jay Hardy
Ars Moriendi / Benjamin Blake
The Kingdom / Simon MacCulloch
Ratatoskr / Christian Dickinson
ghosts in trees / Lori R. Lopez
To Haunt Ancestral Tombs / Adam Bolivar
Fogs of Judgment / Janice Klain
Through Sunset’s Gates / David Barker
Young Friend / William Clunie
Arkham Boys’ Summer Afternoon / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Fade / Lee Clark Zumpe
Cosmic Mind / Ron L Johnson II
Bedeviled Kiss / Ashley Dioses
Eager Pupil / Katherine Kerestman
A Colossus in Dream / Maxwell I. Gold
Emperor Julian in the Afterworld / Darrell Schweitzer
Among the Trees / F. J. Bergmann
What They Say / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Hypercathexis to a Sunken Spell / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Walker of Wastes / Scott J. Couturier
In a Garden of Hounds / Benjamin Blake
On the Himalayas of Nicholas Roerich's Series of Paintings / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Classic Reprints
Midnight / Archibald Lampman
Adam to Lilith / E. Hoffmann Price
Reviews
Fireside Poems / Kyla Lee Ward
Halloween Redux / S. T. Joshi
Notes on Contributors
