This eighth issue of Spectral Realms features a diverse array of poetry from the pens of such acclaimed poets as Adam Bolivar, Ashley Dioses, K. A. Opperman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ann K. Schwader, John Shirley, and Richard L. Tierney. Wade German contributes a cycle of four evocative poems, “The Nightmares”; Manuel Pérez-Campos, with “The Vortex That Ate Poseidonis,” pays tribute to the memory of Clark Ashton Smith; Liam Garriock, a promising young writer from Scotland, contributes the moving prose-poems “The Spirit of the Place” and “Past, Present, and Future”; Charles Lovecraft pays homage to his namesake in “The King of Horrors, Howard Phillips Lovecraft”; in “The Final Masquerade,” Alan Gullette turns the King in Yellow mythos upside down; and Mary Krawczak Wilson channels Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth” in “Sea Creatures.”
Among the classic reprints is a poem by Farnsworth Wright, longtime editor of Weird Tales, published in that immortal pulp magazine under a pseudonym; and Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s chilling “To a Young Murderess.” Frank Coffman contributes a long and incisive analysis, “Verse vs. Free Verse,” in which the virtues and failings of free verse are keenly dissected. Sunni K Brock reviews Christina Sng’s scintillating volume A Collection of Nightmares, and Leigh Blackmore assesses the many strengths of Michael Fantina’s Alchemy of Dreams.
Once again, Spectral Realms #8 is a testament to the remarkable renaissance of weird poetry in our time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
Through Druid Oaks / Leigh Blackmore
Belladonna / Abigail Wildes
The Flitter-Bird and the Bloom of Doom / Richard L. Tierney
Dr. Cat Tree / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Nightmares / Wade German
The Voice of the Mary Celeste / M. F. Webb
A Longer Winter / Benjamin Blake
Succubus Waltz / Joshua Gage
A Witch’s Memoir / Ashley Dioses
A Frenzy of Witches / David Barker
The Girl and Her Wolf Dog / Christina Sng
The Vortex That Ate Poseidonis / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Fleeting Existence / J. T. Edwards
Terrarium / Oliver Smith
The Return / Ian Futter
Gas Giant / F. J. Bergmann
The Spirit of the Place / Liam Garriock
Red / Mary Krawczak Wilson
The Old Courthouse / Don Webb
The Black Hunt / Adam Bolivar
Forever the Covens Break Us / Claire Smith
Lycanthrope Moon / Frank Coffman
Look Beyond / Darrell Schweitzer
Pumpkin, Oh Pumpkin! / Will Hart
The World Turns / Kendall Evans
Looking After Death / John Reinhart
The King of Horrors, Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Charles Lovecraft
The Scrying Mirror / Chelsea Arrington
Desert Witch / Rob Matheny
The Milk Hare / David Barker
The Fetch / K. A. Opperman
Nosferatu / David Schembri
Hiding the Corpse / Shawn Ramsey
The Final Masquerade / Alan Gullette
A Modern Exorcism / Ian Futter
The Vellum of the Damned / Joshua Gage
Berserker / Benjamin Blake
When We Fall / Christina Sng
Mama Drool / Ross Balcom
Germina Amoris / Oliver Smith
The Ballad of A.M. / M. F. Webb
Past, Present, and Future / Liam Garriock
Odd Todd / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Waning Hours of Woe / J. T. Edwards
Sea Creatures / Mary Krawczak Wilson
Stanzas of the Metaphysical Student Found in a Notebook / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Sudden Raving of a Quiet One / John Shirley
Procession of the Expendable / David Barker
The Stalking Horror / Frank Coffman
Memoirs in the Dark / Christina Sng
Facing the Demon / Ian Futter
Volunteers / Ann K. Schwader
Hollow of the Night / F. J. Bergmann
Classic Reprints
The Death Angel / Farnsworth Wright
To a Young Murderess / Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Articles
Verse vs. Free Verse / Frank Coffman
Reviews
The Exquisite Nightmares of Christina Sng / Sunni K. Brock
Of Femmes Fatales and Lost Worlds / Leigh Blackmore
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