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Not Quite Atlantis [hc]
a selection of poems by Donald Sidney-Fryer
publication date: Early 2010
£12.00 [$18.60]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-81-9

Synopsis / Contents:

CONTENTS

On Reading Edmund Spenser Once Again
As Buds and Blossoms in the Month of May the Rose
To Clark Ashton Smith
Pavane
"Thy Spirit Walks the Sea"
To a Youth
The Ashes in the Rose Garden
To Edmund Spenser
Ave Atque Yale
Thaïs and Alexander in Persepolis
0 Fair Dark Eyes, 0 Glances Turned Aside
The Cydnus
Golden Mycenae
Kilcolman Castle: 20 August 1965
Aubade
The Lilac Hedge at Cassell Prairie
Black Poppy and Black Lotus
The House of Roses
"The Musical Note of Swans . . . Before their Death"
Green Sleeves
0 Beautiful Dark-Amber Eyes of Old
The Forsaken Palace
Far the "Shapes of Clay" of Ambrose Bierce
Connaissance Fatale
For the "Black Beetles in Amber" of Ambrose Bierce
Offrande Exotique
An Enchantress Out of Time
Lo Primordial
Our Lady of the Unicorn
Oblivion
Return of the Conquistadors
Pale Fragile Unicorns
Beauty
Totem
The Bitch with Tits of Bronze
Demeure Exotique

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Off The Coastal Path [hc]
Collection of dark poems from the seaside by Various - Edited by Jo Fletcher
publication date: Early 2010
£15.00 [$23.25]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-82-6

Synopsis / Contents:

Come - take my hand, and wander with me off the coastal path and into that strange
hinterland between earth and water, where life and death walk together, and where the rolling sound of the sea is a siren's luring voice, a wild, clear call that echoes in the blood and cannot be ignored . . .

The seaside is a unique place, a magical no man's land caught between the ever-changing waves and the stolid earth, and just as diverse.

Off-key music heralds tawdry end-of-pier shows and run-down fairgrounds, with their dilapidated ghost trains and fluorescent candy floss.

Pathetic holidaymakers brave the vile weather, too scared to brave the vile landladies, who run their faded-wallpaper-and-cabbage-scented B&B domains with rules set in stone.

As you pick your way over pebbles, or sunbathe in the sand, perhaps you'll see
pirates, breasting the waves, or monsters, lurking beneath, or hear mermaids, beckoning you closer with a song, or the bells of lost Atlantis, in the deeps below.

Or perhaps you may come upon the lonely, the bereft, the hopeless, walking forever beside the sea, oblivious to all now but the pull of the tide . . .

This unique, evocative collection gathers thirty poets from across seven centuries, to explore the shadowlands beside the restless waters off and the coastal path.

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Hallowe'en in a Suburb & Others [hc]
collection of poems from Weird Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
publication date: Early 2010
£12.00 [$18.60]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-78-9

Synopsis / Contents:

When the history of fantasy and horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned. Published on low-grade "pulp" paper, Weird Tales was the first newsstand magazine devoted exclusively to weird and fantastic fiction. It ran for 279 issues, from March 1923 to September 1954.

The three most important and influential writers to have their work published in the title were Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft; the Texan creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard; and the California poet, short story writer, illustrator and sculptor, Clark Ashton Smith.

"The Complete Poems from Weird Tales" series collects their verse in the order that it originally appeared in the pages of "The Unique Magazine".

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The Singer in the Mist & Others [hc]
collection of poems from Weird Tales by Robert E. Howard
publication date: Early 2010
£12.00 [$18.60]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-79-6

Song of the Necromancer & Others [hc]
collection of poems from Weird Tales by Clark Ashton Smith
publication date: Early 2010
£12.00 [$18.60]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-848630-80-2

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