Spectral Realms is here, and let’s start with the cover art! Dan Sauer has done it again. The cover is a brilliant macabre portrait designed around a piece of classical art by Albert Joseph Pénot — “La Femme Chauve-Souris” (c. 1890). Dan has outdone himself once again.
The table of contents is stacked with poetry and prose! I’ve attached the entire table of contents because I’m thrilled at the list of contributors. I’ll have three prose pieces, appearing in this issue. Also, this will be the debut appearance of the newest member of the Cyber pantheon, Ghebulax the Faceless One; who appears in a tale bearing its own namesake.
It has been so humbling to continue to associate with this assemblage of strange, dark, and weird voices who come together in some of the most beautifying ways to create truly wondrous literature. I hope to share many more posts like this in the future.
You can purchase copies of Spectral Realms #12 HERE. Check out the table of contents below.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Poems
Acrostic Sonnet for Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire / David Barker
Gray / M. F. Webb
Pilgrim in the Mist / Wade German
Proem to the Fortress Unvanquishable / Thomas Tyrrell
Ode to the Great God Pan / Carl E. Reed
Ghebulax / Maxwell I. Gold
The Crimson Knight / Scott J. Couturier
Haematophagy / Ashley Dioses
Not All of Them Are Ghosts / Darrell Schweitzer
Poe, on the Morning After / Don Webb
Homage to Creepy / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Xipe Totec / Deborah L. Davitt
Necronomicon / Josh Maybrook
Wretched Raft / Kieran Dacey Boylan
Satanic Sonata / Manuel Arenas
Time’s Vulture / Leigh Blackmore
Urban Renewal / Mike Allen
Graveside Ghost / Mary Krawczak Wilson
No One Is Safe / Benjamin Blake
Minoan Messages / Frank Coffman
Madhouse Getaway / Manuel Pérez-Campos
Planet Fetish / Chad Hensley
Jack in Xanadu / Adam Bolivar
Genesis / Holly Day
I Want to Taste October / Ross Balcom
A Tasty Treat / Adele Gardner
Beyond the Fields / Andrew J. Wilson
The Tears of Cerberus / Wade German
A Witch in the House / Oliver Smith
The Psychopomp / Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer
The Plague Queen’s Song / Nicole Cushing
I’ll Return in Late October / K. A. Opperman
The Philosophy & Aesthetics of Horror / Carl E. Reed
Black Wings Return / Michael D. Miller
Slow the Night Grows Darker / David Sammons
The Wild Hunt / Chelsea Arrington
Lines Written in a Providence Churchyard / David Barker
The God of the Winds / Christina Sng
Singularity / Curtis M. Lawson
Dream Hackers / Maxwell I. Gold
The Bedlam Philharmonic / Steven Withrow
The House (A Conduit) / Mack W. Mani
The Pack / Scott J. Couturier
Kiss of Life / Manuel Arenas
The Last Golem / Allan Rozinski
A Summoning of Demons / Michelle Jeffrey
Astral Parasites / Manuel Pérez-Campos
The Silent Silver Sea / Leigh Blackmore
Homer Before the Trojan Court / Darrell Schweitzer
The Witch’s Cat / Deborah L. Davitt
In Arcadia / Josh Maybrook
My Loveliest Manticore; or, The Queen of the Lamiae / Wade German
The Conjuring / Frank Coffman
Wildfires / Christina Sng
Now and Forever / Kieran Dacey Boylan
Stela of Selos / Scott J. Couturier
Southern Gothic; or, Hillbilly Horror / Carl E. Reed
The Egyptian Splendor / Ross Balcom
Carrion Dreams / Maxwell I. Gold
