"Ann K. Schwader, who has already distinguished herself by an array of meticulous and imaginative poetry that elaborates upon themes in H. P. Lovecraft's work, has in the past decade and more written some of the most scintillating tales of any author of Lovecraftian fiction. In a number of stories, Schwader has written interconnected narratives that bring Lovecraftian terror to the remote regions near her native Wyoming, with Native Amer ..."
"Schwader's latest collection! Dark Energies released! Dark Energies is the powerful latest collection by American poet, Ann K. Schwader. New and hard-to-procure collected poems expand the vista of her artistic vision. They explore human plight in a dark cosmos and pitch historical, contemporary and futuristic observations in spellbinding metrical forms. As with all memorable poetry, this collection creates a thirst for more of her work ..."
"In this impressive follow-up to his previous poetry collection, From the Cauldron (2010), veteran poet Fred Phillips provides a generous smorgasbord of poems of fantasy, horror, and the macabre. Phillips’s verse is marked by metrical precision, imaginative range, and a distinctive melding of brooding horror and emotional poignancy. Phillips draws upon the rich heritage of weird fiction with poems that reference the work of H. P. Lovecra ..."
"Schwader's latest collection! Dark Energies released! Dark Energies is the powerful latest collection by American poet, Ann K. Schwader. New and hard-to-procure collected poems expand the vista of her artistic vision. They explore human plight in a dark cosmos and pitch historical, contemporary and futuristic observations in spellbinding metrical forms. As with all memorable poetry, this collection creates a thirst for more of her work ..."
"ABOUT THIS BOOK The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these Best of tales are selected, stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft s incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right for a retrospective volume that exhibits the choicest items from the series. The task of selection was not a simple or straightforward one, for every tale in the series had some claim to be chos ..."
Unquiet Stars by AnnK. Schwader Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2021 by Amazon Digital Services Llc - Kdp Print Us ISBN-13: 978-1-888993-47-9, ISBN: 1-888993-47-2
"Unquiet Stars is the ninth collection from Rhysling Award-winning speculative poet Ann K. Schwader."
"SYNOPSIS This sixth volume of S. T. Joshi s acclaimed Black Wings series demonstrates as never before how infinitely malleable are H. P. Lovecraft s weird conceptions. The twenty-two stories and poems in this book run the gamut of modes and genres, but each of them is fueled by elements large and small drawn from Lovecraft s inexhaustibly rich corpus of writing. Cosmicism is central to Lovecraft s imaginative vision, and it oftentime ..."
"SYNOPSIS This fourth instalment of S. T. Joshi s acclaimed Black Wings series features seventeen stories that continue to elaborate upon the conceptions, motifs, and imagery of H. P. Lovecraft, the most influential writer of weird fiction of the past hundred years. One of Lovecraft s favourite themes was the tale of archaeological horror, where venturesome explorers unearth hideous secrets of the ancient past that cast a baleful light ..."
"In this edition of Tales of the Talisman, Brock Marie Moore introduces us to Kumit, an alien scientist looking for microbes, who stumbles upon space pirates. Bryan Thomas Schmidt takes us to the border where illegal aliens are captured by aliens from outer space. C.J. Kilmer takes us to a post-apocalyptic future where the driver of a steam-powered truck encounters a cybernetic supersoldier. Kelly Dillon warns of the dangers that could ..."
"This nineteenth issue of Spectral Realms contains the customary array of diverse and riveting poetry by today's leading weird poets, including Ann K. Schwader, Wade German, Scott J. Couturier, Ian Futter, and Ngo Binh Anh Khoa."
"1888: A killer stalks the streets of London's Whitechapel district, brutally--some would say ritualistically--murdering women. With each slaying, the killer grows bolder, his crimes more extreme. So far, there have been five victims (that we know of): Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. The story of Jack the Ripper captured lurid headlines and the public's imagination, and the firs ..."
Twisted in Dream The Collected Weird Poetry of AnnK. Schwader by AnnK. Schwader, Robert M. Price Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Hippocampus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61498-004-9, ISBN: 1-61498-004-7
"Praise for Ann K. Schwader's poetry: Ann Schwader, poet and "imaginer" par excellence, represents in her considerable mythopoeic art something at once remarkably novel and yet somehow reassuring despite her often dystopian vision. She deploys her craft and technique to offer us in depth a wide range of adventures, past, present, and future, whether alluring, distressing, or horrific. -Donald Sidney-Fryer The dark and enchanting verse ..."
"The fourth volume in the Horror Writers Association's acclaimed Poetry Showcase series features more of the exciting, disturbing, and beautiful verse that has made these collections favorites with lovers of the darkly lyrical."
"Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award! H.P. Lovecraft, the American master of horror, understood with horrible clarity that all things must die. After summer is winter, and life inevitably gives way to frozen sterility. In our modern world, we live cushioned existences, and congratulate ourselves on our supposed escape from the old dangers. We think ourselves caught out of nature’s reach by our technological wizardry. Safely cocooned. T ..."
"In Tales of the Talisman 7-1, you'll find fourteen stories and fourteen poems that will propel you into the future. Danielle Ackley-McPhail tells the story of a spaceship that comes upon a station manned only by a mech with the mind of a heartless technician. Derek Muk intoduces us to a paranormal investigator who teams up with a nun to check out a UFO sighting in a New Mexico ghost town. James S. Dorr takes us to a future where human ..."
"The criticism of what H.P. Lovecraft called 'weird fiction' - tales of fantasy, the supernatural, and some instances of psychological suspense or non-supernatural horror - remains at a somewhat rudimentary stage. In part this is a consequence of the relative lack of respect given by mainstream critics to this untidy and potentially subversive genre, but it is also a result of the lack of outlets for criticism or scholarship of weird lit ..."
""The Weird Sonneteers" is a landmark collection of more than 100 sonnets on science fiction, fantasy and speculative science themes by three award-winning masters of the form."
"Ann K. "Ankh" Schwader is a well-known science fiction, fantasy, and horror poet, but she is also a prose writer. Here at last is a collection of her dark fiction, including all her Cthulhu Mythos tales to date. Included are "Home Visitor" and "Twenty Mile", both of which have received honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, as well as "Mail Order Bride" and "Lost Stars", possibly her best work to date. With a prefa ..."