The Host of Many: Hades and his Retinue by Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Host of Many: Hades and his Retinue by Bibliotheca Alexandrina is now out and available in ebook form, for now.  The paperback is planned but I'm not sure when that will be out.  My poem, Pluto, appears in this issue.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication 

Gates of Hades: Memento Mori by Nightshade Purplebroom 

Introduction by Terence P. Ward 

Poetry

Hypnos 

For Melinoe by Jennifer Lawrence 

Hymn to Melinoe III by Rebecca Buchanan 

Three Weeks in the Underworld — To Cerberus by Nightshade Purplebroom 

Hymn to Charon I by Rebecca Buchanan 

Library by James B. Nicola 

To Hypnos by Ariadni Rainbird 

Insomnia by James B. Nicola 

Prayer to Hypnos I by Rebecca Buchanan 

A Prayer for Life by Anna Schoenbach 

Birth Song by Rebecca Buchanan 

Hades’ Lament by Jennifer Lawrence 

The Flowers Were Dark by James B. Nicola 

The Rainbow in the Shadows by Hayley Arrington 

To Plouton by Ariadni Rainbird 

Pluto by Ashley Dioses 

Hymn to Hades V by Rebecca Buchanan 

Remains by Anna Schoenbach 

Sisyphus Revisited by James B. Nicola 

To the Oneiri by Ariadni Rainbird 

Rites and Recipes

Cerberus by Nightshade Purplebroom 

Honoring Hades as a Household Patron by Jamie Waggoner 

Meeting Hades: A Meditation by Rev. Amber Doty 

Mint and Stone: How to Create an Indoor Shrine to Hades by Rebecca Buchanan 

Pathworking to Face Kerberus by Ariadni Rainbird 

Yule: King in the Darkness by Rev. Amber Doty 

Myths

Pluto by Jacopo Caraglio 

Death’s Argument by J. K. Bywaters 

Fortune Teller by Mark Mellon 

The Haunting of Vipsania Licinia by Rebecca Buchanan 

Essays

Thanatos 

The God at the Gate: Charon in The Lightning Thief by Rebecca Buchanan 

Hades the Sophist by Edward P. Butler 

Meeting the Ferryman by Rebecca Buchanan 

Wrestling with Thanatos: A Mythological Study by Iona Miller 

Lethe by Nightshade Purplebroom 

Appendix A: Publication Credits 

Appendix B: Our Contributors 

Appendix C: About Bibliotheca Alexandrina — Current Titles — Forthcoming Titles 

Pre-Order The Withering!

 The Withering is now available for pre-order!  There are a few different fun little purchasing options.  You can get The Withering signed by me, signed by John Shirley, who wrote the introduction, or have it signed by both of us.  We are looking at a possible early December release.  Right in time for the holidays!

(Cover and interior art by Mutartis Boswell)

  

Infernal Ink Magazine (Fall/Winter 2020)

The final issue of Infernal Ink Magazine is now out.  My poetry reprint, Lovely Lucifer, appears in this issue.  I first heard of Hydra M. Star and Infernal Ink Magazine years ago through this ezine called Horrotica.  Horrotica was run by Terry D. Scheerer and was one of the first places I got published.  Terry gave me a lot of feedback and helped me very early on with my poetry and fiction.  He has, unfortunately, left this world and I have dedicated The Withering to him, as a lot of those poems in there he helped me with and published.  So Infernal Ink Magazine was on my radar as a new place to submit but I don't think I actually started to submit there until a few years ago.  I'm sad to see it end but happy to have been in its pages.    

Table of Contents

“Notes from the Editor” with Hydra M. Star.

“Revenge” by John Grey

“Ashes To Ashes, Flesh Made Love” by Rohini Mori

“The High Priestess of Tiki, Horror, and Satan” an interview with Peggy Nadramia

“The Little Death” by Diane Callahan

“The Clap of the Gallows” by J.R. Pfeiffer

“Womb Of The Dead 3: The Undead Child Shall Lead Them” by Robert J. Leuthold

“Home Invasion” by Dean Patrick

“Lovely Lucifer” by Ashley Dioses

“Soon We Lived in Zoos or a Brief History of the Future” by Chris Daruns

“A Love Letter” by Viktor Wolfe

“Trying Something New” by Kurt Dysan

“Black Orchids” by Scott J. Couturier

“Stalemate” by Aivien Whitfield

“Afterglow” by Nitasia Roland

“The Holiday Thing” by Anthony Anderson

“The Author Bordello” with Hydra M. Star

“The Mentor” by Hydra M. Star