The darkness is always there, lurking in the corners, skulking behind the shelves, waiting under the stairs, sleeping between the stars. But there is always hope, a light to show the way!
Michael R. Collings delves into modern and historical horror in his essays; explores the edges of sanity and reality in his fiction; and visits far shores, distant planets, and the hapless programmer next door in his poetic musings.
Join the three-time Bram Stoker nominee and World Horror Convention Grand Master in this original collection of new and older works. Embark on your winding journey for hope as you tread cautiously down the dark and narrow way…
In the Haunting Darkness.
Table of Content
- ‘A Light in the Darkness That Cannot Be Hid’ (foreword) by Joe Monson
- ‘The Power of Story’ (introduction)
- ‘The Persistence of Darkness’ (essay)
- ‘The Epic of Dune: Epic Traditions in Modern Science Fiction’ (essay)
- ‘To Name a Genre’ (essay)
- ‘Literature, Genre, Horror…and Mormons-What?’ (essay)
- ‘Monsters: Through a Perspective Glass’ (essay)
- ‘On a Dark and Narrow Way’ (essay)
- ‘…Is Death’ (poem)
- ”Night’s Plutonian Shore” (poem)
- ‘In the House Beyond the Field’ (poem)
- ‘The Dweller on the Edge of Day’ (poem)
- ‘Warren-Portrait of the Artist as a Neurotic’ (poem)
- ‘Warren Evaluates the Effects of Aripiprazole’ (poem)
- ‘Warren Says Farewell to His Father’s Ghost’ (poem)
- ‘On Entering the Fantastic’ (essay)
- ‘Three Hallmarks of Horror: Location, Isolation, and Language’ (essay)
- ‘Reading Stephen King’ (essay)
- ‘Women and the Fantastic-A Glimpse into a Beginning’ (essay)
- ‘On Seventeenth-Century Ghosts and What We Can Learn from Them’ (essay)
- ‘Some Thoughts on the Werewolf’ (essay)
- ‘Good Words/Bad Words’ (essay)
- ‘Not-So-Good Horror: Why Little Things Count’ (essay)
- ‘When Words Stumble’ (essay)
- ‘Transforming Terrible’ (essay)
- ‘A Midnight Shooting on the Golden State Freeway’
- ‘A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine’s Day’
- ‘Brace the Bear and the Great Eagle-beyond-the-Mountain’
- ‘Dame Ginny Mc Laserbeam and the Dastardly Duke’ (with Judith Collings)
- ‘In the Haunting Darkness’
- ‘Jury of His Peers’
- ‘Miniaturist’
- ‘Palimpsest’
- ‘The Calling of Iam’Kendron’
- ‘Wer Means Man’
- ‘The Egress of Hell’
- ‘From: Averse to Horrors: An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous’ (poem)
- ‘Because I Would Not Stop for Death’ (poem)
- ‘Black Crocuses’ (poem)
- ‘The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow’ (poem)
- ‘Christ of Universe’ (poem)
- ‘Dermatillomania’ (poem)
- ‘The Envy of Demons’ (poem)
- ‘The Galactic Ambassador Is Invited to Hear the Hand-built Organ on a Newly Conquered World, Its Function Explained by the Victorious Planetary Overlord’ (poem)
- ‘Grendel’s Mother’ (poem)
- ‘I Wander the Cosmos, Inventing It’ (poem)
- ‘The Last Pastoral’ (poem)
- ‘The Legend of Kometes’ (poem)
- ‘Nosferatu Arrives at Wisborg’ (poem)
- ‘On the First Outdoor Testing of a Man-Made Bacterium in a Strawberry Patch in California’ (poem)
- ‘The Program’ (poem)
- ‘Savage’ (poem)
- ‘Spatio-Temporal Spectacles’ (poem)
- ‘Tapestry’ (poem)
- ‘Triple Sonnet in a Season of Pandemic’ (poem)
- ‘The Wind from Whirl-Away’ (poem)
- ‘And When the Bold Word-Monger Came’ (poem)
- ‘When the Dreamer of Worlds Wakes’ (poem)
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 312 ● ISBN 9781642780611 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Editor Joe Monson ● Publisher Hemelein Publications ● Published 2022 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8533032 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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