K. A. Opperman conjures up a pageant of autumnal imagery sure to delight all fans of the Halloween season. Often recalling the charming rhymes on vintage postcards, these poems take us on a stirring journey deep into October's heart, offering treats-and a few tricks-to those brave enough to follow the jack-o'-lantern's orange grin into the night. Put on your costume, grab your pumpkin-shaped treat-bucket, and come discover what treasures are to be found past the glad and sunlit season, where both the dying year-and youth itself-confront what it means to face the darkness at summer's end.The poetry in this delightful volume is accompanied by 15 full-page illustrations by noted weird artist Dan Sauer, whose images celebrate the macabre nostalgia evoked by Mr. Opperman and by All Hallows' Eve itself."...[K. A. Opperman] is the gifted descendent of poets ranging from Poe to Walter Scott to Robert Burns, all of whom understood that Halloween's deliciously dark mood may be best served by poetry."-From the Preface by Lisa Morton, author of Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween"K. A. Opperman's poems evoke both the dark chill of late October and the warmth of a cottage fireside. He captures a time outside of time, an otherworld populated by Pumpkin Kings and haunted souls who wander the edges of our consciousness begging to come inside. The book is a heartfelt incantation to mysteries of Halloween." -Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History"These visions of All Hallows' Eve are sure to enchant and whisk the reader away to a world of crisp autumn leaves, brimming with magic. The poems within this collection are steeped in folklore and perfectly reflect the ambiance of Halloween. This book will become your treasured new Halloween tradition."-Mickie Mueller, author of Llewellyn's Little Book of Halloween"Past the Glad and Sunlit Season is a cornucopia of autumnal delights. At turns whimsical and sombre, K. A. Opperman's Halloween poems serve as fine evocations of that season of mist, fire, and scythe." -Richard Gavin, author of Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness

Past the Glad and Sunlit Season: Poems for Halloween

Literature & Fiction

Opperman, K. A.

Poetry

Jackanapes Press

The Withering: Poems of Supernatural Horror

Dioses, Ashley

Genre Fiction

IN THE GRAND TRADITION of Clark Ashton Smith; of H. P. Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth, of Edgar Allan Poe and George Sterling and other masters of Weird Poetry...JOHN SHIRLEY-the Bram Stoker Award-winning writer; the noted novelist, author of Demons and Cellars and Lovecraft Alive and City Come A-Walkin' and Stormland and the A Song Called Youth trilogy and Black Butterflies; the songwriter; the lyricist for the Blue Öyster Cult... and frequent contributor to the weird poetry journal Spectral Realms-presents his first book of poems. His themes range widely: from irony-infused cautionary tales to the dangers of romance in a vein of nightmare; to the diabolic glimpsed from the corners of the eye; to the lyricism of streetcorners; to the magic energy of inescapable regret; to cosmic horror, secret sovereigns, and apocalypse... leavened by subtle glimpses of hope. This volume is lavishly illustrated by noted weird artist Dan Sauer, whose surreal photomontage work illuminates the savage beauty and dark epiphanies of Shirley's verse.

The Voice of the Burning House: Poems

Shirley, John

From ADAM BOLIVAR, author of The Lay of Old Hex... a collection of interconnected tales steeped in myth, folklore and archaic legendry. The Lowells talk only to Cabots and the Cabots talk only to God. The Drakes, meanwhile, talk only to the Devil... JOHN DRAKE stalks the streets of 1920s Boston. He is a Brahmin by birthright, but shunned by others of his caste. Still, it is to him they must turn when caught in a supernatural snarl that needs untangling-or cutting with the rune-graven sword passed from father to son since the days of Jack the Giant-Killer. Twelve Gothic tales unfold the uncanny saga of the Ettinfell, cursed by ancestral compact to defend the city of his birth, while longing for escape to the elfin Otherworld where he can be united with the mysterious balladress whose music haunts his dreams. Featuring twelve full-page illustrations by Dan Sauer.

The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill: Gothic Tales of Boston

Bolivar, Adam

For those who hunger for small bites of horror sweetened with black humor, this collection of Grim Tales and Gothic Fancies offers a satisfying repast: morbidly playful riffs on the faerie tales of the Brothers Grimm; darkly exquisite Gothic fables in both prose and verse; and hell-raising evocations of beings both demonic and diabolic. A rich feast of horrors leavened with wit, Book of Shadows offers a delicious glimpse into the decadent heart and mordant mind of Manuel Arenas. In "The Sanguinary Saga of Morbidezza Vespertilio, Vampiress," Arenas inverts "Sleeping Beauty" with more than a touch of Gothicism in the style of Hammer horror. With "Rosaire, Master of Wolves," he shows us the dark genesis and bloody destiny of a born werewolf. A lighter touch is used in "Gothilocks," a playfully sardonic update on "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The dread demon of Christmas makes an appearance in "Greetings from Krampus," and in "Nativity in Black: An Antichrist-mas Story," we are presented with a dark celebration featuring all creatures great and infernal in a pageant-quite literally-from Hell. This volume is sumptuously illustrated by Dan Sauer, whose surreal images heighten the effect of the dark fantasies contained herein.

Book of Shadows: Grim Tales and Gothic Fancies

Arenas, Manuel

Celebrated weird writer Peter Rawlik returns to his highly entertaining world of Lovecraft-inspired, silver screen-infused fiction with a standalone follow-up to his 2016 novel, Reanimatrix. ARKHAM, 1928: HALSEY, PEASLEE, & LYDECKER, CONSULTING DETECTIVES: Arkham's newest detective agency doesn't handle philandering spouses, missing relatives, kidnappings or even murders. Even so, they aren't looking for work-if anything, they would appreciate some time off, to rest and recuperate. THE MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY SPIRITUALISM CLUB: Dilettantes playing at ghost hunting-but the university knows better. If the club wants to borrow university equipment, they'll need someone to chaperone them-someone that can handle themselves against the living, the dead-and whatever else the universe might throw at them. THE KRAG: The crumbling mansion squats abandoned on a New England cliff, overlooking the cold, dark sea. They say its owner, a professor broken by tragedy, had spent years trying to contact the dead-only to vanish from behind the locked doors of the house itself. Nearly a decade later, the place remains untouched, and the caretaker won't spend the night. THESE ARE THE PLAYERS. THIS IS THE PLACE. IT'S CHRISTMAS. AND A GHOST STORY IS JUST THE BEGINNING. Illustrated by Dan Sauer

The Miskatonic University Spiritualism Club (Halsey, Peaslee & Lydecker, Consulting Detectives)

Rawlik, Peter

Rawlik, Pete

JOURNEY ONCE AGAIN TO THE DARKNESS AT SUMMER'S END... In this brilliant follow-up to Past the Glad and Sunlit Season, K. A. OPPERMAN takes us to an enchanted autumnal land overflowing with candy-sometimes sweet, sometimes cursed by witches. Jack-o'-lanterns keep watch as we travel through Pumpkin Country, questing for the rich rewards that are to be found in contemplation of October's pastoral and many-colored tapestry. These stories told in rhyme, and melancholy hearthside meditations, are sure to rekindle a yearning for the Halloween season in hearts young and old. Open this book, and chase October ghosts through a realm of autumn dreams. The author has provided an extensive notes section which delves into his inspiration and creative process-and Halloween obsession-plus a brief essay on Halloween symbols, "Trick-or-Treat as Initiatory Rite, and Attendant Symbolism. With an insightful foreword by Adam Bolivar and loaded with atmospheric full-page black and white illustrations by Dan Sauer. "This book will cast its spell on your dark Halloween heart!" --MICKIE MUELLER, author of Llewellyn's Little Book of Halloween "This is a book to pick up anytime in the year when you need a dose of magic." --LISA MORTON, author of Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween "Open this book after dark, listen to the wind rage outside, and read-to yourself, to your children, to whoever might be listening in the shadows." --LESLIE PRATT BANNATYNE, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History "KA Opperman's October Ghosts & Autumn Dreams: More Poems for Halloween is an enchanting dive into all the beauty that encapsulates the autumnal spirit. From catchy rhythms to recite while carving jack-o-lanterns in 'Carver's Rhyme' to a well-researched look into Appalachian customs in Appalachian Halloween, every line is beautifully crafted and sure to be appreciated by anyone who is a fan of the spooky season!" -HEATHER MOSER, Producer of Small Town Monsters

October Ghosts and Autumn Dreams: More Poems for Halloween

ONCE UPON A TIME, WHAT IF...\nWhat if the Sleeping Beauty left to make her own life? 
What if Bluebeard's wife seized the opportunity for justice? 
What if the witch truly loved Rapunzel? 
What if Snow White learned the virtues of right rulership from the dwarves,and Jack learned wisdom from the giants?\nIn this provocative collection, Rebecca Buchanan (author of Asphalt Gods) re-examines classic fairy tales from Mother Goose, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and other sources with a sharp and modern eye, deepening the impact of the original tales and often inverting the perceived moral. These re-imaginings show us not-so-noble frog princes, environmentalist knights, wicked witches revealed as wise women, the cynical politics of fairy godmothers, and unexpected humanity in the hearts of monsters.\nDig Deeper • Twist The Tales Around • Fairy Tales Are Revolutionary\nIllustrated throughout with classic art by Harry Clarke, Walter Crane, Gustave Doré, Albrecht Dürer and others.\n". . . beautifully rich imagery and twists you won't see coming . . . there's both pain and triumph in these fairy tale renderings, where villains are the heroes and heroes more complex than you could ever imagine. Don't try to put this book down once you start it. Instead make yourself comfortable and settle in. It's quite a ride." —Gerri Leen, Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominated poet\n"[These] poems crackle with blood and life, revenge and death, life and war, and many satisfying comeuppances. For those of you who, like me, have read countless fairy tale retellings, you'll be surprised at Buchanan's way of reimagining even the most famous stories. For those less immersed in the world of fairy tales, prepare to be entertained, dazzled, shocked, and woken up. Strongly recommended." —Kate Wolford, Publisher of Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine\n“. . . Here, the bones of murdered women and children sing the names of their murderers on a tree at the heart of the world, and Jack learns the ways of clouds, trees, bees, frogs, and fishes from elemental giants. Buchanan’s poems remember their folkloric ancestors but are unafraid to forge new moral and literary ground, doing the work of folk tales as it has been done for centuries. Profoundly just and keenly concerned with the natural world, these are the old stories as we’ve never read them before and need to read them now, full of wisdom and warning for the perilous times we live in. A courageous and important collection.” —Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran, Folklore PhD Candidate and Author of the Forthcoming Play The Belt and the Necklace\n“There is an ineffable quality to Rebecca Buchanan’s poems, which are laden with subtle rhythmic devices to beguile the reader—poetic witchcraft of the highest order. These are the childhood fairy tales familiar to all, yet viewed from unfamiliar, kaleidoscopic angles, the effect of which is startling and revelatory. You will never look at these stories the same way again.” —Adam Bolivar, Author of The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill and Ballads for the Witching Hour\n“A brilliant collection exploring the darkest sides of humanity through a fairy tale lens, Not a Princess leads you down a memory lane paved with gilded bones and bloody stones. Lyrically and viscerally marrying feminist, social, and environmental horror, Rebecca Buchanan’s crafty cats, weary wolves, and disgruntled daughters will captivate you with razor-sharp verses and sumptuously twisted imagery. A perfect stormy evening read.” —Jessica McHugh, Bram Stoker & Elgin Award nominated author of A Complex Accident of Life

Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution

Buchanan, Rebecca

WELCOME TO THE WEIRD WORLD OF JOHN SHIRLEY...How deep into the weird will you go? Will you wade to your knees? Your waist? Your shoulders? Will you get in over your head? This truly unique story collection from the acclaimed and unsettling John Shirley is organized into four sections. The first section is Really Weird Stories. The second is Really, Really Weird Stories. The third is Really, Really, Really Weird Stories. The fourth is-oh yes-Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories. And the author means what he says: each section is weirder than the last, doubling its strangeness a section at a time. The collection starts out disquieting; it becomes disturbing, then it gets outrageously weird-then mind-bending. Yet each story is a compelling narrative.Some of the stories are set in the "real world;" others have a supernatural or science-fiction basis, or come from a place where genres are destroyed by explosive vision. In this edition there are four new stories, including the Lovecraftian Antarctic adventure "A Boy and His Shoggoth," and, published here for the first time, "The Whisperer Made Visible"--a tale of secret treaties with horrors eldritch and invisible.This updated edition of Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories is one of the most impressive feats of sustained and varied weirdness since Harlan Ellison's landmark Dangerous Visions anthologies. Your mind is strong. Take the risk..."Another virtuoso offering from a writer whose daring and originality continue to astonish." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review of the originaledition

Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories

THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE WERE JUST THE BEGINNING! 
Arkham’s Own Occult Investigators, HALSEY, PEASLEE, & LYDECKER, have their hands full. There’s a monstrous storm brewing over the college annex, something is haunting the Delapore Chemical Company, the university library is having trouble with the Whateley collection, the new librarian is probably too curious for her own good, and there’s a young woman who may or may not be the rightful heir to the House of Jermyn. And let’s not forget HP&L have agreed to provide security for the social event of the year. The guests have come to Arkham from all over the world, and only some of them might be human... but what else would you expect from the Wedding of Asenath Waite? 
Walter Gilman is Dead! But for Frank Elwood, the terror continues. One by one his fellow students are dying, and the odds of that being accidental aren’t just improbable—they border on the impossible. To protect himself Elwood seeks help from HP&L, who might just help him unravel the terrible secret of THE ELDRITCH EQUATIONS.\nOnce again, Peter Rawlik—author of Reanimators, The Weird Company, Renanimatrix and The Miskatonic University Spiritualism Club—masterfully combines his love for the classics of the Silver Screen with Lovecraftian horrors in an exhilarating noir adventure. 
“Looking for Lovecraftian horror fiction the way it should be written? Then Peter Rawlik is your man.” —David Conyers, author of Cthulhu Reloaded 
“From Asenath to Zabdiel, Rawlik conjures an imaginative kaleidoscope of Lovecraftian New England and its inhabitants, leaving no insane professor or harried investigator unturned. An utterly unashamed dive into the devious and deluded world of the Mythos, where the living, the dead, and the re-animated have a book they don’t want you to see. And it may not be a good idea to answer that knock at the door...” —John Linwood Grant, author of Where All is Night, and Starless 
"Murder comes to the Miskatonic Valley, and someone has to find out whodunnit. The Eldritch Equations is an interstitial novel, and finds its place in between the genres of weird fiction and the detective novel. Rawlik's novel splices a touch of Dashiell Hammett into the literary DNA of Lovecraft's Arkham Cycle, and does justice to both." —Bobby Derie, Author of Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos

The Eldritch Equations and Other Investigations (Halsey, Peaslee & Lydecker, Consulting Detectives)

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