WHISPERING WORLDS. This exciting compilation of supernatural and science-fiction-themed poetry was compiled by David Bain in 1994 for what was planned as special issue of Riverrun magazine, a respected poetry journal. When his college administration balked at publishing "that kind" of content, Bain finally resolved, in 1998, to post the text he had edited (at least for those poets willing to enter cyberspace) on the Internet. The online anthology immortalized Bain's vision of the mythic-bardic-Gothic-interplanetary Muse, and, prompted him to release an ebook version of the anthology in 2001. Bain arranged the anthology into six sections: These Ghosts contains 24 poems about the world of haunts and the haunted; Whispering Worlds has 25 poems exploring the aberrant and abhorrent; The Inevitability of Light offers 21 poems from the more brightly-lit realms of fantasy; How the Blind Become the Dead includes 21 poems from the darker side of the fantastic; Escape Velocity features 23 narrative science fiction-themed poems; Chimes on the Quantum Wind has 22 poems emphasizing the science aspect of science fiction. We are delighted to help keep this important 1990s anthology in view. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND READ
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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
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- Selected Poems 2
- Shipping on the Styx
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- The Beckoning Eye
- The Secret Agent
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- Holland Collected Poems
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Thomas D. Jones
Michael Katz
Li Yu
Richard Lyman
D.H. Melhem
David Messineo
Th. Metzger
J Rutherford Moss
John Burnett Payne
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Meleager
Ovid
Suzanne Post
Shirley Powell
Burt Rashbaum
Ernst Raupach
Susanna Rich
Brett Rutherford
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- Midnight Benefit St.
Boria Sax
Charles Sorley
Vincent Spina
Ludwig Tieck
Pieter Vanderbeck
Jack Veasey
Jonathan Aryeh Wayne
Jacqueline de Weever
Don Washburn
Phillis Wheatley
Sarah Helen Whitman
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