This seventh issue of Hippocampus Press’s acclaimed journal of weird poetry features nearly 60 original poems of fantasy and terror from such renowned poets as Ann K. Schwader, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, John Shirley, Christina Sng, and Richard L. Tierney. Among the more distinctive works are “Dracul’s Demesne,” a sonnet sequence by Frank Coffman; two acrostic sonnets on H. P. Lovecraft by Manuel Pérez-Campos; Adam Bolivar’s ingenious poetic reinterpretation of Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” (“The Ballad of the de la Poers”); and moving prose-poems by David Barker, Liam Garriock, Maxwell I. Gold, and Charles D. O’Connor III.
As classic reprints, the issue includes the long title poem by Ernest A. Edkins, from his fabulously rare poetry collection Amenaphra and Other Poems (1889), as well as a selection from Paul Eldridge’s Baudelaire-inspired collection Vanitas (1920). S. T. Joshi contributes a searching analysis of George Sterling’s celebrated fantasy poem “A Wine of Wizardry,” concluding that the poem is “a self-fulfilling justification for the entire realm of weird literature.” Leigh Blackmore reviews Benjamin Blake’s much-heralded volume Standing on the Threshold of Madness, while John Shirley covers Tim Powers’s limited-edition booklet, Poems.
In all, Spectral Realms #7 carries on the tradition of meticulously crafted weird verse, which is enjoying an unprecedented renaissance in our time.
Poems
This Mountain of Skulls / John Shirley
Lightless Oceans / Ann K. Schwader
The Dream-Wife / Adam Bolivar
More Than the Shark / M. F. Webb
The Embrace /Jessica Amanda Salmonson
A Rude Awakening / Ian Futter
For Sale / Deborah L. Davitt
Invocation to the Daemon for Modern Times / Liam Garriock
Aenid’s Dream / Christina Sng
The God Within / Ronald Terry
The Dark Pharaoh / Richard L. Tierney
Ave Augustissime: An Acrostic Sonnet on H. P. Lovecraft, Esq. / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Portrait of H. P. Lovecraft, Esq.: A Scrambled Acrostic Sonnet / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Dracul’s Demesne / Frank Coffman
The Reaper’s Garden / Ashley Dioses
Testament of the Scribe / David Barker
The Graveyard Knows My Name / Ross Balcom
Teratology / F. J. Bergmann
Repoman Homunculus / Chad Hensley
Imprisoned / Mary Krawczak Wilson
His Voice in the Whisper of Waves / Deborah L. Davitt and Kendall Evans
Mary of the Rosy Grave / K. A. Opperman
Things Come out of the Fog / G. O. Clark
Moment / Nathaniel Reed
Ad’Naigon / Maxwell I. Gold
Doll in the Wall / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
From the Yellow Text of Thanos Khan / Don Webb
Angry Sun/Bloated Moon / Claire Smith
Secret Tree / John Shirley
Only 13 / Ian Futter
Expanding Universe / Ronald Terry
The Final Turn / Ann K. Schwader
Arrival / M. F. Webb
He Dreams of Beauty / Liam Garriock
Pull / Christina Sng
Innsmouth Shanty / David Barker
Metamorphosis / Frank Coffman
The Wyrde of the Bibliognost; or, Another Solitude / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Silent Songs / Deborah L. Davitt
The Ballad of the de la Poers / Adam Bolivar
Corridors Enough / Ann K. Schwader
The Daughter of Death / Charles D. O’Connor III
Under the Blood Moon / Sunni K Brock
Her Skull and the Sea / Mary Krawczak Wilson
What It Means When You Dream of Swords / F. J. Bergmann
My Beloved Bones / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Rising Damp / M. F. Webb
Night Terrors / Ian Futter
David Lynch / Liam Garriock
It’s Hell Being Your Guardian Angel / John Shirley
The Spiders of Kepler 452B / Kendall Evans
Classic Reprints
Amenophra / Ernest A. Edkins
Faces and Souls / Paul Eldridge
Articles
On “A Wine of Wizardry” / S. T. Joshi
Reviews
Tim Powers, Poet / John Shirley
The Virtues and Drawbacks of Free Verse / Leigh Blackmore
Notes on Contributors
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 03 July, 2017.
