The fifteenth issue of Spectral Realms features scintillating work from many of the leading weird poets of today, including Frank Coffman, Wade German, K. A. Opperman, Ann K. Schwader, and Steven Withrow. David Barker continues his cycle of poems inspired by Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth; Carl E. Reed offers a chilling ballad, “The Call of Lizzie,” while D. J. Tyrer evokes Robert W. Chambers’s most famous creations in “Carcoza” and “In the Court of the Dragon.” Justin Permenter summons up the all too real terrors of the Inquisition, Lori R. Lopez mulls on the eternal fascination of the cat, and Adam Bolivar presents a pair of his memorable ballads.
Among the prose poems in this issue, Maxwell I. Gold contributes a trio of his striking ruminations on the terrors of the cyber world, while D. L. Myers finds weirdness in the natural world in “Lepidoptera, My Sweet.” In the Classic Reprints section we find poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Conrad Aiken. S. T. Joshi reviews a trilogy of recent books of poetry, while Leigh Blackmore finds much merit in K. A. Opperman’s new volume. In all, a rich feast for the devotee of the weird in verse!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
Mother Dearest / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Epiphany / M. F. Webb
October is Coming / K. A. Opperman
Plague / Lori R. Lopez
Ballade of the Plague Orgy of Moloch / Wade German
Télos: The Anxiety of Choice / Maxwell I. Gold
Close Behind / by Frank Coffman
The Swamp Maiden / Jordan Zuniga
Permian-Triassic / Geoffrey Reiter
I Awaken in October / Scott J. Couturier
Reading the Leaves / Ann K. Schwader
What Came of the Search / Steven Withrow
The Banquet of Thalassa / Oliver Smith
Tremulous Expectancy / Charles Lovecraft
Assailant from the Unknown / David Barker
The Call of Lizzie / Carl E. Reed
Black Hymeneal / Manuel Arenas
In the Small Hours (moon version) / Chad Hensley
The Final Conquest / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Carcoza / DJ Tyrer
Mail Order Bride / Alicia Hilton
Plaything / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Death’s Kingdom / Jordan Zuniga
Lepidoptera, My Sweet / D. L. Myers
The Meadows of Night / F. J. Bergmann
Termination Shock / Geoffrey Reiter
The Gathering / M. F. Webb
The Costume / Lori R. Lopez
Faust Unrepentant / Josh Maybrook
Jack Thunder / Adam Bolivar
Of Masks and Monsters / Maxwell I. Gold
Goblin Laughter / Wade German
The Eden Spills / P. B. Grant
Oleander and Wolfsbane / Alicia Hilton
Beautiful Beast / Claire Smith
La Villa Infestada / Frank Coffman
The Haunter of College Hill / David Barker
Within the Wood / Abigail Wildes
A Bottled Dredge / Charles Lovecraft
An Old Bone in the Bluebells / Oliver Smith
Carrot and Stick / Steven Withrow
Shuffling Horror / Carl E. Reed
To Kiss Death’s Shroud / Scott J. Couturier
Witch’s Tit / Manuel Arenas
Our Ghosts Are Going Away / Darrell Schweitzer
In The Court of the Dragon / DJ Tyrer
An Ungodly Thing / Jordan Zuniga
Uses of Enchantment / F. J. Bergmann
Allure of the Western Sky / Jay Sturner
“Shadows, You Say” / Frank Coffman
Hounds of the Lord / Justin Permenter
A Crow Is Calling / Lori R. Lopez
Laughter out of the Sea / Maxwell I. Gold
Old Sorcery / Wade German
Fatal Attraction / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Damned: A Ghazal / Joshua Gage
The Bookshop on the Wharf / David Barker
Printz’s Oratory / Steven Withrow
The Daemon Masque / Adam Bolivar
A Word / Geoffrey Reiter
Moonlit Waters / Ashley Dioses
Manurog / Manuel Arenas
Black-winged Battle Cry / Carl E. Reed
Classic Reprints
The Deserted House / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Vampire / Conrad Aiken
Reviews
Two Contemporaries, One Classic / S. T. Joshi
An Aesthetic of Grotesquerie / Leigh Blackmore
Notes on Contributors
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 16 July, 2021.
