Sectral Realms No. 19 (Summer 2023)

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Published by our friends at Hippocampus Press! Edited by S. T. Joshi. Cover art/design by Dan Sauer. 6x9 paperback, 124 pages.

This nineteenth issue of Spectral Realms contains the customary array of diverse and riveting poetry by today’s leading weird poets, including Ann K. Schwader, Wade German, Scott J. Couturier, Ian Futter, and Ngo Binh Anh Khoa.

David Barker contributes two more poems to his ongoing series of reimaginings of Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth. Oliver Smith looks at Frankenstein in an innovative way. Frank Coffman tells a miniature weird tale in a four-sonnet cycle, “A Cabin in the Wood.” Carl E. Reed, Andrew White, and Christian Dickinson draw upon ancient folklore for their brooding poems. Maxwell I. Gold contributes three of his cosmic prose poems, while Jay Sturner and Liam Garriock add their own distinctive prose poems.

Two classic reprints (by Erasmus Darwin and Thomas Hardy), along with S. T. Joshi’s review of a new edition of the obscure American Decadent poet Lee Roy J. Tappan, conclude the issue.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Poems

Tenebrae / Wade German
The Monstrous Word Is “Man” / Carl E. Reed
A Grave Vision / Scott J. Couturier
The Remains / Patricia Dompieri
Strange Door, Odd Key / Frank Coffman
Interrupted / Lori R. Lopez
Surviving Samhain / Andrew White
North of Arkham / David Barker
Genevieve and Amun / Alicia Hilton
The Boneless / Leigh Blackmore
Another Apocalypse / Lee Clark Zumpe
Novembering / Ann K. Schwader
The Darkest Days and Nights / Benjamin Blake
The Nightmare / Geoffrey Reiter
The Traveler / Ian Futter
Witchbirds / Lori R. Lopez
After Hesse / Don Webb
The Myth of Nothing / Maxwell I. Gold
Gods of the Garden / Steven Withrow
The Phoenix / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Pontianak / Christian Dickinson
On The Invitation, an Anonymous Oil Seen in a Flea Market / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Cicada Kings / Joshua Green
Frankenskin for Frankenbones / Oliver Smith
Alanna / Garrett Boatman
Mortality’s Metronome / LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Ancient Rite: A Walk amongst the Corn / Carl E. Reed
Face Your Future / DJ Tyrer
The Sorcerer in His Tower Contemplating Possible Success / Darrell Schweitzer
Sycophant of the Siren / Jay Sturner
Iron-Sceptred Skeleton / Dmitri Akers
Bone or Root / Denise Dumars
Language of Night / William Clunie
Brocéliande / Manuel Arenas
Boy Meets Girl / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Witch / Katherine Kerestman
The Last House / Jason Hardy
The Battlefield / Adam Bolivar
The End of Day / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
A Cabin in the Wood / Frank Coffman
They’re Coming / Maxwell I. Gold
On an Autumnal Graveyard / Scott J. Couturier
The Death of the Sculptor’s Model / Steven Withrow
A Willing Sacrifice / Andrew White
Epiphany on the Bronze Poseidon at Cape Sounion / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Nuckelavee / Christian Dickinson
The Bayou / Lee Clark Zumpe
An Invitation / Claire Smith
Seer Light / Liam Garriock
The Machine / Ian Futter
By the Sea / David Barker
The Castle Beneath the Hedgerow / Silvatiicus Riddle
Small Doses / F. J. Bergmann
Christmas Lure / Alicia Hilton
The Lantern of September / Scott C. Couturier
The Ferryman’s Rest / Joshua Green
In Medusa’s Coils / DJ Tyrer
Lob / Frank Coffman
An Apostate’s Eschatology / Carl E. Reed
Sphinx / Christian Dickinson
The Matron / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Towers / Maxwell I. Gold
confession / Lee Clark Zumpe
Sympathy for Laocoön and His Sons / Manuel Pérez-Campos

Classic Reprints

The Nightmare / Erasmus Darwin
The Haunter / Thomas Hardy

Reviews

An American Omar / S. T. Joshi