BRETT RUTHERFORD - WHIPPOORWILL ROAD
THE SUPERNATURAL POEMS
(Expanded and Revised 6th Edition, 2019).
Hardcover edition published 2022.
This
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.
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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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History of the Press
Book Listings
Anthologies
- Opus 300
- Wake Not the Dead!
- On the Verge
- Group 74
- Meta-Land
- Beyond the Rift
- Tales of Terror (3 vols)
- Tales of Wonder (2 vols)
- Whispering Worlds
Joel Allegretti
Leonid Andreyev
Mikhail Artsybashev
Jody Azzouni
Moira Bailis
Callimachus
Robert Carothers
Samuel Croxall
Richard Davidson
Claudia Dikinis
Arthur Erbe
Erckmann-Chatrian
Michael Frachioni
Emilie Glen
Emily Greco
Annette Hayn
Heinrich Heine
Barbara A. Holland
- The Holland Reader
- After Hours in Bohemia
- Selected Poems 1
- Selected Poems 2
- Shipping on the Styx
- Out of Avernus
- The Beckoning Eye
- The Secret Agent
- Medusa
- Crises of Rejuvenation
- Autumn Numbers
- Holland Collected Poems
- In the Shadows
Victor Hugo
Thomas D. Jones
Michael Katz
Li Yu
Richard Lyman
Meleager
D.H. Melhem
David Messineo
Th. Metzger
J Rutherford Moss
Denise La Neve
Ovid
John Burnett Payne
Edgar Allan Poe
Suzanne Post
Shirley Powell
Burt Rashbaum
Ernst Raupach
Susanna Rich
Brett Rutherford
- New and Recent Poems
- Goodman's Croft
- From Hecla
- Big House, Rent Cheap
- Island of the Dead
- Story of Niobe
- The Inhuman Wave
- Fatal Birds
- Pumpkined Heart
- Doll Without A Face
- Crackers At Midnight
- Anniversarius
- Gods As They Are, 2nd ed.
- Prometheus on Fifth Ave
- Things Seen in Graveyards
- Prometheus Chained
- Dr Jones & Other Terrors
- Trilobite Love Song
- Expectation of Presences
- Whippoorwill Road
- Poems from Providence
- Twilight of the Dictators
- Night Gaunts
- Wake Not the Dead!
- Pity the Dragon
- It Has Found You
- Autumn Symphony
- By Night and Lamp
- September Sarabande
- Midnight Benefit St.
Boria Sax
Charles Sorley
Vincent Spina
Ludwig Tieck
Pieter Vanderbeck
Jack Veasey
Don Washburn
Jonathan Aryeh Wayne
Jacqueline de Weever
Phillis Wheatley
Sarah Helen Whitman
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