The poems in this collection comprise a unity of poetic imagination. The connective tissue between them is a union of both time and space. Poetry's aim is to cast light on human experience, and even though several of these poems consist of inanimateness, each poem is still endowed with a familiar spirit, a whispering demon, a meditated plan of action.

Absurdity, social realism, and the in-depth examination of the human condition are but a few of the themes that comprise the contents of the seventy-three short stories breathing menacingly between the covers of this book. Humor attacks surrealism on a landscape sun-saturated with saintly thought and intense clarity - creation's first simple act of pure effervescence getting drowned.

For centuries, students of the forbidden arts have probed the inky recesses of the spaces inbetween. Hapless mortals have invoked monstrous entities from beyond through foul magicks, incantations and rituals. When will they learn that there can be no profit nor joy to be gained through relations with the insidious old ones? These sixteen tales of depravity, sorcery and madness may offer some illumination, but ultimately there can be no salvation for those who dabble in The Dark Rites of Cthulhu. Featuring terrifying new stories by Glynn Owen Barrass, Edward M. Erdelac, John Goodrich, Scott T....

These two novellas are strange companions indeed. Wimble Lord depicts one man's fight for survival while the world around him is on the brink of extinction. What sets Wimble Lord apart from other 'end-of-the-world' sagas are his mad recollections of a futuristic civilization long since past. Emerging from his bomb shelter, he is confronted by a desert that bears a jungle of giant fruits and swarms of migratory, other-worldly insects. Pieces of Humanity is part fantasy/fairytale straight out of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute. 'The Magic Flute' himself carries the reader on a flight through...