The ninth issue of Hippocampus Press’s acclaimed journal of weird poetry features verse by some of the leading contemporary poets of fantasy, horror, and the supernatural, including Frank Coffman, Fred Chappell, Ashley Dioses, Wade German, K. A. Opperman, Leigh Blackmore, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ann K. Schwader, and the late Michael Fantina. Such significant fiction writers as John Shirley, Darrell Schweitzer, and David Barker also contribute striking weird verse, while Liam Garriock, David B. Harrington, Charles D. O’Connor III, and others show that the prose-poem is alive and well.
Among the classic reprints are rare and unreprinted poems by Madison Cawein (a prominent poet of the turn of the 20th century, much of whose work is laced with weirdness) and Dora Sigurson Shorter. Marcos Legaria contributes the first part of a detailed examination of the influence of Clark Ashton Smith upon the poetry of Robert Nelson, who in his tragically brief life (1912–1935) produced some scintillating work that continues to attract attention.
In the section of reviews, Donald Sidney-Fryer assesses Henry J. Vester III’s Of Mist and Crystal; Frank Coffman supplies a sensitive reading of Ashley Dioses’s Diary of a Sorceress; and Russ Parkhurst evaluates Adam Bolivar’s book of ballads, The Lay of Old Hex.
Poems
The Visionary / Ian Futter
Final Library / Ann K. Schwader
Flesh Flowers / John Shirley
Forty Years in Innsmouth / M. F. Webb
A Dream of Vengeance (In Imitation of Robert E. Howard) / Michael Fantina
The Thing in the Forest: A Revbaiyat / Frank Coffman
The Urge to Write / Liam Garriock
The Sorceress’s Lament / Ashley Dioses
Cornflower Valley / Christina Sng.
The Willful Child / Fred Chappell
Cat Girl Cantata / Michael D. Miller
A Voyage Too Far / J. T. Edwards
Are We Not Beautiful in Our Decay? / Allan Rozinski
The Song of the Siren / Chelsea Arrington
Acrostic Sonnet in Memory of Providence, R.I., August / Charles Lovecraft
A Bloodless Man / Mary Krawczak Wilson
Great Mother / David B. Harrington
Three Witches / David Barker
Angry in His Grave / Darrell Schweitzer
Toads / Wade German
The Witch’s Son / Adam Bolivar
Halloween Reverie / K. A. Opperman
Contemplate the Alchemy of Dancing Quantum Particles / Kendall Evans
Rek-Cocci Stirs / Scott J. Couturier
The Loved / Ian Futter
Antarktos Sequence / Manuel Pérez-Campos
On a Poet’s th Birthday / Leigh Blackmore
Spectral Realms: An Homage / Frank Coffman
The Angel’s Pen / Charles D. O’Connor III
Gautier Ghost Story / Chad Hensley
Lucifer Romantico / Tatiana
We Are the Owls / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Thalía / Manuel Arenas
The Wendigo / Michelle Jeffrey
She’s a Legend: A Song Sung by the Unsung / John Shirley
Elegy for Futurism / Liam Garriock
Spectral Noir / Deborah L. Davitt
Graveyard Feline Morning / Benjamin Blake
The Vampire’s Mother / Christina Sng
The Dark Reclaims Us / Ann K. Schwader
The Unseen / Mary Krawczak Wilson
The Last God / David Barker
Night Thoughts of a Nonentity / Manuel Pérez-Campos
When Black Tom Came / Scott J. Couturier
Scholar and Sorcerer: For S. T. Joshi, on His th Birthday
( June ) / Michael Fantina
Flowers from Another World / Kendall Evans
Dark Entry IV / Chad Hensley
The Last Illusion of Robert Houdin / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
On Wings of Fire / David B. Harrington
The Merman / Tatiana
Of Hooves and Horns / Michelle Jeffrey
Weird Tales, the First Run: An Homage / Frank Coffman
In Ligno / Deborah L. Davitt
The Mermaid / Christina Sng
When Nightfall Comes to Ooth-Nargai / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Autumn Sphinx / Liam Garriock
Classic Reprints
The Creaking Door / Madison Cawein
The Fairy Changeling / Dora Sigerson Shorter
Articles
Clark Ashton Smith and Robert Nelson: Master and Apprentice: Part / Marcos Legaria
Reviews
In the Footsteps of the Masters / Donald Sidney-Fryer
A New Formalist / Frank Coffman
Drowning in Delicious Weird / Russ Parkhurst
Musings Philosophical and Religious / Donald Sidney-Fryer
Notes on Contributors
This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 11 November, 2018.
