Spectral Realms No. 22: Winter 2025 - Paperback

by S. T. Joshi (Editor), Ann K. Schwader (Author), John Shirley (Author)

The twenty-second issue of Spectral Realms features its customary allotment of poems long and short by such leading figures as Ann K. Schwader, D. L. Myers, Scott J. Couturier, Wade German, John Shirley, Darrell Schweitzer, and Adam Bolivar. Lori R. Lopez's long poem "Beastly" tells of terrors on the sea is matched by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa's poetic narrative of death and madness. Carl E. Reed etches a grim account of the horrors of war. Among other items are Adele Gardner's haunting Halloween poem, Manuel Pérez-Campos's poetic interpretation of the paintings of Nicholas Roerich, Frank Coffman's riff on the "King in Yellow" mythology, David Barker's continuing poetic interpretations of Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth cycle, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel's disturbing poem about a lamia. Prose poems by Manuel Arenas and Maxwell I. Gold also grace the issue.

Of the classic reprints, one is a weird poem by the celebrated Canadian poet Archibald Lampman and the other is a rare poem from Weird Tales by pulpmeister E. Hoffmann Price.

Kyle Lee Ward sensitively reviews a new poetry collection by Colleen Anderson, while S. T. Joshi assesses two scintillating volumes by K. A. Opperman.