Greetings from the Wells,
Spectral Realms is here and I’m very humbled to join the ranks, once again, with a troop over extremely talented writers and poets. Their body of work not merely within Spectral Realms, but outside and the depth of work they all produce is laudable and to be greatly respected and admired. The last time I appeared in Spectral Realms was in the 2017 Summer issue, so it is good to be back home.
My prose piece, “The God of Phlegm” will be making its debut in this issue. I enjoyed writing this prose greatly as it took on a much darker hue than I anticipated and also resulted in the birth of a new Cyber God…the dreaded Nath’Zrath.
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Table of contents below:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
The Tomb of Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire / Wade German
The Blackbird’s Ghost / Abigail Wildes
Temptation Entombed / David Barker
Eternal Lovers / Carl E. Reed
Covert / F. J. Bergmann
On a Threadbare Photograph of H.P.L. at 66 College St. / Manuel Pérez-Campos .
The Witch of Hearts / Chelsea Arrington
The Legend of Vlad and Juztina / Tatiana
A Lady and Her Monster / Christopher Collingwood
The Hill of Bones / G. O. Clark
Space-Time / Ron L. Johnson II
The Monsters Within / Christina Sng
Doctor Fulci’s Fantastic Cure for Nightmares / Liam Garriock
Temple of the Condor / Ann K. Schwader
Subterranean Hungers / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Great Wheel / Frank Coffman
The Necromancer’s Charm / Scott J. Couturier
Tomb without Walls / Ross Balcom
The Final Scrawl / Pat Calhoun
The Jack-o’-Lantern Hearted / K. A. Opperman
The Vampire-Need / Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer
The Duke of Balladry / Adam Bolivar
Disclosure / Norbert Góra
Guillotined / Carl E. Reed
Altar of Yig / David Barker
Poe / Randall D. Larson
Haruspex / Geoffrey A. Landis
The Secret Pool / Darrell Schweitzer
As One Poet to Another / G. Sutton Breiding
She Tasted of Gin and Death / Curtis M. Lawson
Vampire Vigil / Manuel Arenas
The Thing That Watches While I Write / Thomas Tyrrell
Plague’s Wake / Ashley Dioses
To a Cat-Daemon: A Litany of Antient Ægypt / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Methuselah / Wade German
Cassandra Can’t Tell You / Allan Rozinski
Lair of the Bat People / Ross Balcom
Reparation / Christina Sng
In the Days of the Vertical Ocean / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Underwater Circus / Kurt Newton
Super-Position / Ron L. Johnson II
The Absence of Clouds / G. O. Clark
Divided by Demons / Mary Krawczak Wilson
Down the Garden Path / M. F. Webb
The God of Phlegm / Maxwell Gold
Cruel Eleanora / Adam Bolivar
Tears of the Raven / Christopher Collingwood
Graveyard of the Gods / Scott J. Couturier.
Solving for X / Ann K. Schwader
The Demon Ball / Tatiana
The Bog Man / Chelsea Arrington
On Gustave Moreau’s Canvas The Apparition / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Black-Tongue Kiss / Carl E. Reed
Diner of Delights / Claire Smith
Inquiry Regarding the Dead / David Barker
Styx / Christina Sng
The Fairiest / Oliver Smith
The Separation / Ian Futter
The Ghost Factory / F. J. Bergmann
The Baleful Beldam / Manuel Arenas
Remains / David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Classic Reprints
Fright / May Sinclair
The Silent House / Samuel John Alexander
Articles
Clark Ashton Smith and Robert Nelson: Master and Apprentice (Part 3) /
Marcos Legaria
Reviews
A Guidebook for Witches and Warlocks / Donald Sidney-Fryer
Cover art: Daniel V. Sauer
Fearfully Yrs,
Maxwell I. Gold