Spectral Realms No. 11 by Hippocampus Press

I just received my copy of Spectral Realms No. 11 by Hippocampus Press.  It contains my poem, Plague's Wake, which will appear in The Withering.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Poems

The Tomb of Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire / Wade German

The Blackbird’s Ghost / Abigail Wildes

Temptation Entombed / David Barker

Eternal Lovers / Carl E. Reed

Covert / F. J. Bergmann

On a Threadbare Photograph of H.P.L. at  66 College St. / Manuel Pérez-Campos

The Witch of Hearts / Chelsea Arrington

The Legend of Vlad and Juztina / Tatiana

A Lady and Her Monster / Christopher Collingwood

The Hill of Bones / G. O. Clark

Space-Time / Ron L. Johnson II

The Monsters Within / Christina Sng

Doctor Fulci’s Fantastic Cure for Nightmares / Liam Garriock

Temple of the Condor / Ann K. Schwader

Subterranean Hungers / David C. Kopaska-Merkel

The Great Wheel / Frank Coffman

The Necromancer's Charm / Scott J. Couturier

Tomb without Walls / Ross Balcom

The Final Scrawl / Pat Calhoun

The Jack-o’-Lantern Hearted / K. A. Opperman

The Vampire-Need / Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer

The Duke of Balladry / Adam Bolivar

Disclosure / Norbert Góra

Guillotined / Carl E. Reed

Altar of Yig / David Barker

Poe / Randall D. Larson

Haruspex / Geoffrey A. Landis

The Secret Pool / Darrell Schweitzer

As One Poet to Another / G. Sutton Breiding

She Tasted of Gin and Death / Curtis M. Lawson

Vampire Vigil / Manuel Arenas

The Thing That Watches While I Write / Thomas Tyrrell

Plague’s Wake / Ashley Dioses

To a Cat-Daemon: A Litany of Antient Ægypt / Manuel Pérez-Campos

Methuselah / Wade German

Cassandra Can’t Tell You / Allan Rozinski

Lair of the Bat People / Ross Balcom

Reparation / Christina Sng

In the Days of the Vertical Ocean / David C. Kopaska-Merkel

The Underwater Circus / Kurt Newton

Super-Position / Ron L. Johnson II

The Absence of Clouds / G. O. Clark

Divided by Demons / Mary Krawczak Wilson

Down the Garden Path / M. F. Webb

The God of Phlegm / Maxwell Gold

Cruel Eleanora / Adam Bolivar

Tears of the Raven / Christopher Collingwood

Graveyard of the Gods / Scott J. Couturier.

Solving for X / Ann K. Schwader

The Demon Ball / Tatiana

The Bog Man / Chelsea Arrington

On Gustave Moreau’s Canvas The Apparition / Manuel Pérez-Campos

Black-Tongue Kiss / Carl E. Reed

Diner of Delights / Claire Smith

Inquiry Regarding the Dead / David Barker

Styx / Christina Sng

The Fairiest / Oliver Smith

The Separation / Ian Futter

The Ghost Factory / F. J. Bergmann

The Baleful Beldam / Manuel Arenas

Remains / David C. Kopaska-Merkel



Classic Reprints

Fright / May Sinclair

The Silent House / Samuel John Alexander



Articles

Clark Ashton Smith and Robert Nelson: Master and Apprentice (Part 3) /

Marcos Legaria



Reviews

A Guidebook for Witches and Warlocks / Donald Sidney-Fryer

Notes on Contributors

Cover Art

Dan Sauer

Weirdbook Magazine Issue 41 by Wildside Press

I finally got my contributor's copy of Weirdbook Magazine Issue 41. My poem, The Jackal, appears within.  I'm a big fan of The Omen series and those movies were the inspiration for this poem.  The Jackal will also appear in Diary of a Vampyress.

Stories 

• Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole 

• The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer 

• The Bones, by Erica Ruppert 

• The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks 

• Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook 

• Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass 

• The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker 

• “An Autumn Settling”, by Alistair Rey 

• I Know How You’ll Die, by K.G. Anderson 

• Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor 

• Black Aggie, by Marina Favila 

• The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche 

• The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister 

• The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian 

• A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller 

• The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter 

• She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci 

• Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer 

• A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis 

• Juliet’s Moon, by D.C. Lozar 

• The Gargoyle’s Wife, by Jean Graham 

• The Melting Man, by Justin Boote 

• Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy 

• The Proposal, by J.D. Brink 

• Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman 

• Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards 

• There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg 

• Them, by Sharon Cullars 

• For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp 

Poetry 

• Beltane, by K.A. Opperman 

• Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier 

• The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses 

• Our Family Ghost, by Joshua Gage 

• Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst

Beneath Her Spell: She-Devils of Renown

I will be having a leaflet (smaller than a chapbook) titled, Beneath Her Spell: She-Devils of Renown,  released in August from Atlantean Publishing.  This leaflet will contain four poems from my femme fatale series.  They include Carathis, Mircalla, Ligeia, and Asenath.  The first three poems can be found in Diary of a Sorceress.  Asenath was first published in Weirdbook Annual #2: Cthulhu by Wildside Press and will be in my upcoming collection, Diary of a Vampyress.

These ladies of renown sound familiar?  You can find their tales in these Gothic works:

Carathis appears in Vathek by William Beckford.
Mircalla appears in Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.
Ligeia appears in Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe.
Asenath appears in The Thing on the Doorstep by H. P. Lovecraft.