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The spectral realms that thou canst see With eyes veil’d from the world and me.
“To a Dreamer,” H. P. Lovecraft
This second issue of Spectral Realms, Hippocampus Press’s acclaimed journal of weird poetry, features all-original poems—sonnets, ballads, vibrant free-verse lyrics, and much else—from such leading writers as John Shirley, William F. Nolan, Wade German, Gemma Files, Ann Schwader, W. H. Pugmire, and many others. It leads off with a lengthy poem by Donald Sidney-Fryer, one of the pillars of the weird poetry movement for the last half-century or more.
Spectral Realms is devoted to the study and analysis of weird poetry as much as it is a showcase for the poetry itself. Accordingly, this issue features Part 1 of Leigh Blackmore’s detailed examination of the verse of Leah Bodine Drake, whose A Hornbook for Witches is one of the rarest of books published by Arkham House. The issue also contains incisive reviews of recent books of poetry by Sunni K Brock.
With its generous sampling of poetry both old and new, its articles and reviews, and its elegant and tasteful design, Spectral Realms is the ideal showcase for the renaissance of weird poetry now underway.
Poetry
A Spectral Realm Mystery ..... Donald Sidney-Fryer
At the Last of Carcosa ..... Ann K. Schwader
The Spire ..... Chad Hensley
Conundrum ..... Fred Phillips
Fallen: A Lament and Affirmation ..... Jason V Brock
The Dark Road from Yorehaven ..... D. L. Myers
Mummify Me ..... Jonathan Thomas
The Apple ..... Claire Smith
The Song of the Unformed ..... Gemma Files
Occult Agency ..... Wade German
The Promise ..... Darrell Schweitzer
Witch’s Love ..... Ashley Dioses
Haunted ..... William F. Nolan
The Lamp: A Fable ..... John C. Tibbetts
When Rose Petals Fall ..... John Shirley
Among the Ghouls ..... K. A. Opperman
Incantations ..... Michael Fantina
Revenant ..... F. J. Bergmann
Another Knife-Grey Day ..... Michael Kelly
Song for Naughty Children ..... David Barker
Rock On ..... Marge Simon
The Ballad of Jack Keeper ..... Adam Bolivar
Robert Nelson: An Invitation ..... Charles D. O’Connor III
The Desolate Kirkyard ..... Liam Garriock
The Realm of Angels ..... David Schembri
Invocation to Dispel Loneliness on Insomniac Nights ..... Dan Clore
The Final Conversation ..... Ian Futter
The Sire ..... Chad Hensley
Foiled Design ..... Fred Phillips
“The Outsider” ..... W. H. Pugmire
Girls and Their Balloons ..... Stephanie M. Wytovich
Calving ..... Gemma Files
Barn ..... Jonathan Thomas
The Night Is Black and White ..... Leigh Blackmore
Harrow ..... D. L. Myers
Mother Killer ..... Melissa Frederick
Void Music ..... Ann K. Schwader
Lavinia Whateley ..... Darrell Schweitzer
Lines on Reading A. Merritt ..... John C. Tibbetts
The Keeper of the Innsmouth Light ..... M. F. Webb
The Mood of the Moon ..... Wade German
The Cobbled Trail ..... Michael Fantina
The Depths of Enlightenment ..... Sean Elliot Martin
The Bone Bird ..... Mike Allen
A Billion Souls Gaze West ..... David Barker
Furaq ..... Carole Abourjeili
The Blood Garden ..... K. A. Opperman
Tricks ..... Ian Futter
Ligeia ..... Ashley Dioses
Hungry, the Rain-God Wakens ..... Michael Kelly
Legacy ..... Fred Phillips
A Search for Light in Night; A Search for Dark in Day ..... John Shirley
Palimpsest ..... F. J. Bergmann
Kiosk to Kadath ..... Chad Hensley
The Nightmare-Monger ..... Dan Clore
A Devil’s Nursery Book ..... Adam Bolivar
Swampsong ..... Oliver Smith
Beauty and Oblivion ..... K. A. Opperman & Charles D. O’Connor III
Head Ornaments ..... Stephanie M. Wytovich
My Ashen Heart ..... Leigh Blackmore
The Dream Sorceress ..... Michael Fantina
Oblivion’s Daughter ..... David Barker
Purloined ..... Mike Allen
Vexteria ..... Ashley Dioses
The Writer ..... Ian Futter
Classic Reprints
The Skeleton Sexton ..... Francis S. Saltus
The Ballad of Dead Men’s Bay ..... Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Cathedral of Lost Faces ..... Bruce Boston
Articles
“Figures in a Nightmare”—The Poetry of Leah Bodine Drake: Part 1 ..... Leigh Blackmore
Reviews
Some Hits, Some Misses ..... Sunni K Brock
Notes on Contributors
On the cover of this issue, Charles E. Burchfield's “Childhood’s Garden” (1917). Water color on paper, 27 x 19 in. Used by kind permission of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation.
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 January, 2015.