The latest issue of Spectral Realms contains an abundance of scintillating verse from the leading weird poets of today, including Ann K. Schwader, Frank Coffman, Scott J. Couturier, Wade German, and others. John Shirley warns that “we are becoming demonic machines”; Carl E. Reed speaks of the terrors of Samhain; DJ Tyrer channels Robert W. Chambers in “Cassilda’s Song”; and Steven Withrow commemorates the poets of Weird Tales.
The issue reveals its international scope in poems by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa (Vietnam), Lauri Taneli Lassila (Finland), Arukoya Tamois (Korea), and Norbert Góra (Poland), among others. Prose poems by Maxwell I. Gold (who has made this literary form a specialty of his own) and Manuel Arenas enliven the issue, as do reprints of classic poems by William Wilfred Campbell and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.
The issue concludes with reviews of several new volumes of poetry by Leigh Blackmore and S. T. Joshi.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
Solstice Ghosts / Ann K. Schwader
On Gustave Doré’s Engraving The Vision of Death / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Too Close to the Sun / Claire Smith
Cronos, I Won’t Bow to Thee / Andrew White
The Withershades / Joshua Green
At the End Was the Castle Someday / Maxwell I. Gold
Together Always / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
In Praise of the Dreamer / Lauri Taneli Lassila
Hungry Pumpkins / Katherine Kerestman
A Lover’s Little Lies / William Clunie
Take You Away / Mary Turzillo
We Are Becoming Demonic Machines / John Shirley
Samhain House / Carl E. Reed
The Sea Hag / Chelsea Arrington
The Explanation of the Mystery / Frank Coffman
Screams from the Pit / David Barker
Infernal Candle / Scott J. Couturier
Hero Redux / Melissa Ridley Elmes
The Owlmoot / Adam Bolivar
The Widow’s Room / Steven Withrow
Churchyard Nuncheon / Manuel Arenas
Dark Window / Denise Dumars
Earth Shall Be Ours Again / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Purity / John Thomas Allen
Song for the Devouring One / Dmitri Akers
If Closets Talked / Maxwell I. Gold
Take Out / Jay Hardy
Cassilda’s Song / DJ Tyrer
What Evil Lurks / Adele Gardner
Andrea in Wonderland / Andrew White
Changing Moons / Oliver Smith
Rabbit Led / Ashley Dioses
Lovemaking / Michael Potts
What Do We Believe? / Darrell Schweitzer
Vestibule of Tomorrow / Adam Amberden
Conundrum / Janice Klain
Vision of Ys / Wade German
Rising Star / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Venom / Arukoya Tamois
The Path / G. O. Clark
The Dark Seasons / Geoffrey Reiter
Cemetery Dansers / Katherine Kerestman
For the Weird Tales Poets / Steven Withrow
The Dying Flower of My Soul / Scott J. Couturier
Gossamer Gateways / Frank Coffman
Sor Maria and the Devil, Luzbel / Manuel Arenas
A Pestilence of Tongues / Joshua Green
The Old Gray Mansion / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Dead Summer / Denise Dumars
The Messengers / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Warm Fall / Don Webb
The Stench That Lingers Still / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Sirens / Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo
The Trumpets / Maxwell I. Gold
The Old Fisherman / Joy Yin
Mocking Delight / DJ Tyrer
A Moonlit Pursuit / Joshua Gage
During Happy Hour at the Undead Lounge / LindaAnn LoSchiavo
A Highland Cairn / Josh Maybrook
On the Strings of Fear / Norbert Góra
Comes the Reaper / Lori R. Lopez
The Starveling Girl / Steven Withrow
When the Dead Dance with Us / Darrell Schweitzer
Who Knows the End? / Geoffrey Reiter
Dr. Frankenstein’s Witch-Princess / Arukoya Tomais
Autumn / Scott J. Couturier
Born Again / Frank Coffman
The Hall Between Labyrinths / Joshua Green
Classic Reprints
The Were-Wolves / William Wilfred Campbell
The Other Side of a Mirror / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Reviews
The “Wyrd” Tradition / Leigh Blackmore
Cats, Death, and Poetry / S. T. Joshi
The Poetry of Youth / Leigh Blackmore
Notes on Contributors
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 03 July, 2024.
