This twelfth issue of Hippocampus Press’s award-winning journal of weird poetry begins with David Barker’s affecting acrostic sonnet in memory of the late W. H. Pugmire. Contributions by other leading contemporary poets—Leigh Blackmore, Frank Coffman, Adam Bolivar, Benjamin Blake, Christina Sng, and many others—are scattered throughout the issue. We also find vivid and evocative prose poems by Maxwell I. Gold, Manuel Arenas, and Wade German.
Thomas Tyrrell writes a poem in tribute of renowned fantaisiste Lord Dunsany; Don Webb evokes the shade of Edgar Allan Poe; Carl E Reed draws upon the work of Arthur Machen; and Manuel Pérez-Campos pays homage to the comic book Creepy. Nicole Cushing contributes a poem that fuses grimness and beauty, while Scott J. Couturier teases out the horrific potential of Greek myth.
Two classic reprints—by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Symons—hint at the bountiful stores of weirdness in poetry of the turn of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. S. T. Joshi offers his assessment of Wade German’s recent poetry collection, while Donald Sidney-Fryer waxes eloquent about D. L .Myers’s long-awaited omnibus.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
Acrostic Sonnet for Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire / David Barker
Gray / M. F. Webb
Pilgrim in the Mist / Wade German
Proem to the Fortress Unvanquishable / Thomas Tyrrell
Ode to the Great God Pan / Carl E. Reed
Ghebulax / Maxwell I. Gold
The Crimson Knight / Scott J. Couturier
Haematophagy / Ashley Dioses
Not All of Them Are Ghosts / Darrell Schweitzer
Poe, on the Morning After / Don Webb
Homage to Creepy / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Xipe Totec / Deborah L. Davitt
Necronomicon / Josh Maybrook
Wretched Raft / Kieran Dacey Boylan
Satanic Sonata / Manuel Arenas
Time’s Vulture / Leigh Blackmore
Urban Renewal / Mike Allen
Graveside Ghost / Mary Krawczak Wilson
No One Is Safe / Benjamin Blake
Minoan Messages / Frank Coffman
Madhouse Getaway / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Planet Fetish / Chad Hensley
Jack in Xanadu / Adam Bolivar
Genesis / Holly Day
I Want to Taste October / Ross Balcom
A Tasty Treat / Adele Gardner
Beyond the Fields / Andrew J. Wilson
The Tears of Cerberus / Wade German
A Witch in the House / Oliver Smith
The Psychopomp / Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer
The Plague Queen’s Song / Nicole Cushing
I’ll Return in Late October / K. A. Opperman
The Philosophy & Aesthetics of Horror / Carl E. Reed
Black Wings Return / Michael D. Miller
Slow the Night Grows Darker / David Sammons
The Wild Hunt / Chelsea Arrington
Lines Written in a Providence Churchyard / David Barker
The God of the Winds / Christina Sng
Singularity / Curtis M. Lawson
Dream Hackers / Maxwell I. Gold
The Bedlam Philharmonic / Steven Withrow
The House (A Conduit) / Mack W. Mani
The Pack / Scott J. Couturier
Kiss of Life / Manuel Arenas
The Last Golem / Allan Rozinski
A Summoning of Demons / Michelle Jeffrey
Astral Parasites / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Silent Silver Sea / Leigh Blackmore
Homer Before the Trojan Court / Darrell Schweitzer
The Witch’s Cat / Deborah L. Davitt
In Arcadia / Josh Maybrook
My Loveliest Manticore; or, The Queen of the Lamiae / Wade German
The Conjuring / Frank Coffman
Wildfires / Christina Sng
Now and Forever / Kieran Dacey Boylan
Stela of Selos / Scott J. Couturier
Southern Gothic; or, Hillbilly Horror / Carl E. Reed
The Egyptian Splendor / Ross Balcom
Carrion Dreams / Maxwell I. Gold
Classic Reprints
In a Breton Cemetery / Ernest Dowson
The Vampire / Arthur Symons
Reviews
A Golgotha of Horror / S. T. Joshi
Dark Oracles Indeed / Donald Sidney-Fryer
Notes on Contributors
This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 25 January, 2020.
