As Hippocampus Press’s award-winning weird poetry journal Spectral Realms completes its ninth year of publication, it continues to feature some of the best poems of terror and the supernatural by leading contemporary poets.
Ann K. Schwader, Adam Bolivar, D. L. Myers, Wade German, and others grace this issue. Carole Abourjeili writes on vampires, Christian Dickinson in banshees, Steven Withrow on ghosts, and Scott J. Couturier on ghouls. David Barker continues his revisioning of Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth, while Carl E. Reed writes a vibrant tribute to Clark Ashton Smith. Ngo Binh Anh Khoa uses a Vietnamese verse form to cosmic terror and grue; master versifier Frank Coffman conveys weirdness in a quaternelle; and Joshua Gage utilizes the ghazal to speak of the “old gods.”
The classic reprints include an anonymous poem dating to 1823 and James F. Morton’s “Haunted Houses.” Reviews by Leigh Blackmore, Katherine Kerestman, and Steven Withrow of recent books of weird poetry complete a bountiful issue.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
The Star-Treader: Emperor of Dreams / Carl E. Reed
Fée Metropolitain / M. F. Webb
Pericula Noctis / Frank Coffman
The Siren / Carole Abourjeili
Banshee / Christian Dickinson
Front Piece from the Necronomicon / James Arthur Anderson
The Ghoul’s Delirium / Scott J. Couturier
Pumpkin Ale / K. A. Opperman
Trapped in the Spiral Maze / Adele Gardner
Brain Funk / Maxwell I. Gold
Aspis; or, The Brood of Rahab / Harris Coverley
Sisyphus Looks Up / Geoffrey Reiter
The Rite of Exploration / Holly Day
Dreamsign / Andrew White
Postmortem / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Transmogrification / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Appalling / Lori R. Lopez
Stranded in Mississippi / Chad Hensley
Dreams of the Styx / Steve Dilks
Ghosts in Their Sunday Clothes / Steven Withrow
The Spirit Mirror of Doctor Dee / Ann K. Schwader
The Old Ones: A Ghazal / Joshua Gage
For Those Who Tread the Narrow Path / Jordan Zuniga
In the Land of Magma, Salt, and Glacier / Amelia Gorman
Giants in the Earth / Darrell Schweitzer
The Song of the Sword / Adam Bolivar
Night Comes to Sesqua Valley / D. L. Myers
Herod Agrippa / Wade German
Corvid Hill / David Barker
Visiting Hours / John Thomas Allen
In Your Dreams / Silvatiicus Riddle
Post-anthropy / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Mr. Illusive / Frank Coffman
The Venomous Violins / Ron L. Johnson II
A Whisper to Rock / Carl E. Reed
In Tura / Scott J. Couturier
Figments and Fragments / William Clunie
From Heights of Fire to Depths of Cold / Andrew White
Rollin’ Bone and Beaten Stones / Harris Coverley
The Troublemaker; or, To Escape Days of Idleness / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Dragon’s Rage / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Last Days of the Flu / Holly Day
After an Industrial Accident / Steven Withrow
A Voice in the Night / Geoffrey Reiter
Djinn / Christian Dickinson
I Am Beautiful / Ashley Dioses
Final Night / DJ Tyrer
Vampire / Carole Abourjeili
Time of Day / Jay Hardy
Grindevil / Lori R. Lopez
Perfect World / Ann K. Schwader
Bard of Grain and Gourd / K. A. Opperman
Beneath the Ruins of Xul-Kizaak / Wade German
Marble Fang / Benjamin Blake
Love Song of the Lugubrious Gondolier / Manuel Arenas
There’s a Hole in the Sky / Maxwell I. Gold
The Countess / John Thomas Allen
Among the Dead / Scott J. Couturier
The Role of Monster I Embrace / Andrew White
Locus Horroris / Frank Coffman
Iason’s Prospicience; or, Solstyce / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Illumination / David Barker
The Whale Road / Dmitri Akers
The Last Refuge / James O’Melia
Let There Be Light / Carl E. Reed
The Séance / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
At the Polar Gatefires / Andrew Kolarik
Loyal Companion / Steven Withrow
Fuath / Christian Dickinson
A Display of Affection / Harris Coverley
In the Ruins / Geoffrey Reiter
Classic Reprints
The Skeleton Dance: A Ballad / Anonymous
Haunted Houses / James F. Morton
Reviews
Demonic and Darkling / Leigh Blackmore
No Happily-Ever-After / Katherine Kerestman
October’s Law of Diminishing Returns / Steven Withrow
Notes on Contributors
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