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TALES OF TERROR: THE SUPERNATURAL POEM SINCE 1800. VOLUME 2.

“The Goblins will get you if you don’t watch out!”
Terrifying Poems of Ghosts, Monsters and Cosmic Terror
From the 1890s to the Present

This annotated edition of 176 supernatural-themed poems is the second part of a modern sequel to Matthew Gregory Lewis’s famous 1801 poetry anthology, Tales of Wonder. As might be expected, several of the best-known horror writers who were also poets are here, including H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Frank Belknap Long. But surprises abound as ghosts, goblins, fairies, monsters, and cosmic doom escape the pens of poets from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Switzerland, and Germany. Treasures to be found in this volume include the lore of The Flying Dutchman, arctic werewolves, an octopus-woman, a rampaging Sphinx, malevolent fairies, house ghosts, a painting fatal to look upon, Santa Claus’s evil cousin, the Phantom of the Opera, mad scientist Nikola Tesla,  “women scorned” with revenge in mind — plus the inevitable sea serpents, Gorgons, vampires, and the hungry slime mold that ate Providence, Rhode Island. This volume samples the best supernatural-themed poems from the 1890s to about 1930, and then leaps forward to offer over a hundred pages of Gothic works by contemporary poets working in a variety of styles.
For the poetry lover, and for the fan of supernatural literature, this book is a year-round Halloween treat of entertaining and alarming poems to read aloud — bedtime stories for very bad children. For the scholar of the Gothic, it presents an intriguing array of poems that range from overtly entertaining Gothic narratives, to works that employ the devices of the Gothic for other ends, social, political, or personal. The book also includes a cumulative bibliography of source materials on the supernatural and Gothic in poetry.

Poets included in this anthology are:

• THOMAS HARDY
• EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
• WALTER CHALMERS SMITH
• CLINTON SCOLLARD
• JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
• MADISON CAWEIN
• THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES
• STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT
• WALTER DE LA MARE
• LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON
• JAMES ELROY FLECKER
• HAROLD MONRO
• JOHN DRINKWATER
• WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
• KATHERINE TYNAN
• JOSEH PLUNKETT
• CATHAL O'BYRNE
• PATRICK JOSEPH McCALL
• ALICE FURLONG
• OSCAR WILDE
• FRANCIS LEDWIDGE
• LEWIS SPENCE
• CARL SPITTELER
• CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY
• WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL
• HENRY KENDALL
• SAMUEL SLOPER
• RICHARD WAGNER/li>
• SIR JOHN COLLLINGS SQUIRE
• ROBERT GRAVES
• ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS
• HOWARD PHILIPS LOVECRAFT
• FRANK BELKNAP LONG
• CLARK ASHTON SMITH
• BARBARA A. HOLLAND
• JOEL ALLEGRETTI
• CLAUDIA DOBKINS-DIKINIS
• SHIRLEY POWELL
• BRETT RUTHERFORD
• PIETER VANDERBECK
• JACK VEASEY
• SCOTT THOMAS
• JACOB RABINOWITZ

Published May 2016. 6x9 inches, paperback. 348 pp. ISBN 0-922558-84-1    $19.95. CLICK BELOW TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.

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TALES OF TERROR: THE SUPERNATURAL POEM SINCE 1800. VOLUME 1.

Terrifying Supernatural Poems and Ballads by Coleridge, Shelley, Scott, Byron, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Poe, Longfellow, Heine, Baudelaire, Hugo, Pushkin and others.

This annotated edition of 65 memorable supernatural-themed poems is a modern sequel to Matthew Gregory Lewis's famous 1801 poetry anthology, Tales of Wonder. Treasures in this volume include two translations of scenes from Goethe’s Faust by Coleridge and Shelley; supernatural verses and ballads gleaned from Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly novels; Shelley’s supernatural poems, both juvenile and mature; Longfellow sharing ghost stories from The Song of Hiawatha, and fierce legends from Norse myth and history; all of the overtly supernatural poems of Edgar Allan Poe; Robert Browning’s famed “Pied Piper of Hamelin”; Christina Rossetti’s delicious “Goblin Market”; and a feast of shuddery French, Russian, and German poems in translation from Hugo, Heine, Gautier, Baudelaire, Pushkin and Sologub. For the poetry lover, and the fan of supernatural literature, this book is a year-round Halloween treat of entertaining and alarming poems to read aloud — bedtime stories for very bad children. For the scholar of the Gothic, the volume presents an intriguing array of poems that range from overtly entertaining Gothic narratives, to works that employ the devices of the Gothic for other ends, social, political or personal. The book also includes an annotated bibliography of source materials on the supernatural and Gothic in poetry.

This series is designed to be continuous with our two-volume edition of the Monk Lewis anthology, Tales of Wonder.

314 pp., illustrated. The 213th publication of The Poet's Press/ Yogh & Thorn Books. 6 x 9 inches, paperback. ISBN 0-922558-80-9 $19.95. CLICK BELOW TO ORDER FROM AMAZON. Or, purchase the PDF ebook for

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