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BRETT RUTHERFORD - WHIPPOORWILL ROAD


THE SUPERNATURAL POEMS
(Expanded and Revised 6th Edition, 2019).
Hardcover edition published 2022.

Cover ImageThis is the expanded sixth edition of Brett Rutherford's landmark poetry collection, Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poetry. This extraordinary 418-page paperback contains all the poet's supernatural poems, including major new poems added since the last edition. Praised by Robert Bloch and Ray Bradbury, these may be the best supernatural poems of our time. The writing ranks from the seriously Gothic through the downright hilarious, including Gorgons, Egyptian mummies, Golems, Lovecraftian horrors, vampires, werewolves, possessed sex toys and stuffed animals, and the personal recollections of Fritz, the hunchback assistant of Dr. Frankenstein. All of Rutherford's Lovecraft-related poems are collected in this volume — more than 100 pages of Lovecratian items including all the poems written for the annual ceremonies at HPL's gravesite in Providence. Other major new items in this collection include the long narrative poem “Mrs. Friedman’s Golem,” and accounts of Pittsburgh’s radioactive grave-walking specter, the most alarming bed-and-breakfast stay of all time, a secret mental ward full of Lovecraft fans, and a young girl’s lessons in witchcraft in ancient Corinth.

This is the 255th publication of The Poet’s Press, under its Grim Reaper Books imprint. Sixth edition, revised and expanded 2019. Paperback, 414 pages, 6x9. ISBN 9781701296275. $19.95. CLICK HERE to order paperback from Amazon.

Hardcover $25.00 ISBN 979-8793376518. CLICK HERE to order hardcover from Amazon.

PDF Ebook edition, published December 2020. This is the 294th publication of The Poet’s Press, under its Grim Reaper Books imprint. Sixth edition, revised and expanded 2019. 414 pp., 6x9. $2.99

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