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Issue #50 of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is up now with five stories and three poems, plus suitably atmospheric artwork.

One those poems, "Shaft Tomb," is by Yours Truly -- & mixes just a smidgen of cosmic horror with the dark Egyptology.

Find issue #50 here: https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/

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My Robert W. Chambers-inspired villanelle "Waiting in Carcosa" appears in the second issue of Penumbra, an annual journal of weird fiction, verse, & criticism from Hippocampus Press. Over 300 pp. of creepy intellectual fodder, perfect-bound paperback, edited by S. T. Joshi.

This issue features a new story by Ramsey Campbell (!). I'm utterly ( Read more... )

If you're looking for a little literary spookiness to get your Halloween season going, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association is ready to help.

Their 2021 Halloween Poetry Reading site is live now, with poem recordings & art from SFPA members. Find it at

https://www.sfpoetry.com/halloween.html

I'm very happy to have my poem "Toward Samhain" ( Read more... )

Baltimore drunk ward
a one word dirge
nevermore

-- Ann K. Schwader

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe)

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My latest collection of dark verse, Unquiet Stars, is in stock now & shipping from Weird House Press.

This one features a new sonnet sequence -- "Faces From the House of Pain" -- along with plenty of cosmic horror, dark archaeology, and grim SF themes.

Signed copies are available -- & better yet, it's on sale!

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Just in time for the Sequestered Spooky Season, I'm very happy to announce that I have poems in the latest issues of both Spectral Realm (dark & weird verse, mainly formal, plus reviews) & Weirdbook
(dark / weird poetry & prose)! These are both nice thick trade paperback journals, suitable for accompanying all that Halloween candy you bought ( Read more... )