Ghosts 2025 by Weird Fiction Quarterly

 

Another recent favorite poem of mine, The Fields of Asphodel, appears in the Ghosts Issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly.  This poem is a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus' trek to the Underworld to retrieve his beloved.  

The Fields of Asphodel will also appear this year in my forthcoming collection, Diary of a Vampyress.  

Spectral Realms No. 22 by Hippocampus Press

 

My nautical poem, Bedeviled Kiss, appears in issue 22 of Spectral Realms by Hippocampus Press.  This poem is a little different than my usual themes, as this poem is written from the point of view of a ship.

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

Masquerade 2024 by Weird Fiction Quarterly

This is a little late in being posted (this semester has been brutal), but my poem, Hallowed Dream, has been accepted by the Masquerade Issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly.  This is actually one of my favorite recent poems of mine.  

Hallowed Dream will also appear in my forthcoming collection, Diary of a Vampyress, due out later this year. 

Péntek Esti Poétika: Ashley Dioses - The Picture / A kép /// Haloween Hava 2024

The amazingly talented Norbert Csizi has translated The Picture, a poem in my collection The Withering, into Hungarian. He has recorded his translation and recited it in both Hungarian and English.  It is absolutely incredible and I am honored to have my poem reach out a little further into the world. 

Subscribe to Norbert's Useless Knowledge for more weird and horror-related translations and reviews.

     

Folk Horror by Weird Fiction Quarterly

 

This is a fun new journal that I've been welcomed to submit to.  My poem, All Hallows' Feast, appears in this Folk Horror edition of Weird Fiction Quarterly.  An appropriate read to honor the spirits on this Hallows' Eve. 

Weirdbook Magazine Issue 47 by Wildside Press

 

My poem, Shadow Bay, appears in the 47th issue of Weirdbook.  Shadow Bay will also appear in my forthcoming collection, Diary of a Vampyress.

THERAPOSA, by Jessica S J Brown

THE DRAGONS OF THE NIGHT, by Darrell Schweitzer

IT STARTS NOW, by Lorenzo Crescentini

UNDERHEAD, by Charles Wilkinson

BYE, BYE, CUBBY, by Franklyn Searight

DIMENSIONS OF SCALE, by John R. Fultz

A DEAD MAN’S TALE, by Adrian Cole

RETURN TO SENDER: ARMSTRONG-9, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes

BUTTERFLIES AND MOONBEAMS, by Kenneth Bykerk

HEX ON THE BEACH, by Bryce Beattie

FERAL, by Joe Arcara

SIGYN HANTA AND BRONWYN DULCEA SPERANZA, by Patrick S. Baker

EGO URN, by Eddie D. Moore

SWEET HONEY IN THE BONES, by Matt Thompson

NIGHT SHIFT, by Cynthia Ward

THE HORROR FROM THE STARS, by Steve Dilks

BELLICO AND THE HUSKS OF THE “HEAVENSENT”, by Richard Toogood

DON’T OPEN YOUR EYES, by Taylor Grant

THE IRON LAW, by David C. Smith

The Lycanthropicon: Imaginings & Images of the Werewolf by Minds Eye Press

Working and going to school full-time have definitely zapped all the energy I have from making more frequent posts regarding the latest publications I've appeared in.  Even now, I am supposed to be in class but as this is the holiest of holy days in House Dioses-Opperman, I've played hooky and will add a few updates.

A reprint of my poem, The Power of the Moon, appears in The Lycanthropicon: Imaginings & Images of the Werewolf by Minds Eye Press.