My Published Works

NOTE: Items followed by the word LINK connect to the work itself.

Fiction Series

• Dr. Venn Occult Detective Mysteries

  • Three Against the Dark (2022) [C]   LINK

 

Collections

• Coffman Street: Poems for Robert E. Howard (2010)   LINK

• This Ae Nighte, Every Nighte and Alle (2018)   LINK

• The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019)   LINK

• Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows (2020)   LINK

• The Exorcised Lyric (2020) [with Steven Withrow]   LINK

• What the Night Brings (2023)   LINK

 

Magazine Editor Series

• JOURN-E: THE JOURNAL OF IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE

  • JOURN-E, Vernal Equinox 2022 (2022)

  • JOURN-E, Autumnal Equinox 2022 (2022)

  • JOURN-E, Vernal Equinox 2023 (2023) LINK   

  • JOURN-E, Autumnal Equinox 2023 (2023) LINK

   

• The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies

  • The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies #5- 2001 (2001)

  • The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies #6 - 2002 (2002)

 

Anthologies

• Speculations: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2018 (2019)

• Speculations II: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2019 (2020)

• Speculations III: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2020 (2021)

• Speculations IV: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2021-2022 (2023) LINK

• The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art (2022)

• The Vampiricon: Imaginings & Images of the Vampire (2023)

 

Short Fiction

• Foregone Conclusion (2017)

• The White Terror: A Weird Tale of the Victorian Age (2017)

• Carnivale ad Litteram (2018)

• Reinforcements (2019)

• The Hunger (2022)

 

Poems

• A Spirit on the Wind (2004)

• Crazy Son (2005)

• Keys (2006)

• Birth (2009)

• Son of Song (2009)

• Decision (2009)

• Elsewhere Man (2009)

• REH (2009)

• Simeria (2009)

• The Future Howard Reader (2009)

• The Harp of Robert (2009)

• The Outgoing of Robert the Far-Lands Farer (2009)

• The Casualty of the Somme (2016)

• A Traveler to the City (2016)

• The Forest of Horror (2016)

• Cwn Annwn [The Hounds of Annwn] (2017) also appeared as:

  • Variant: Cwn Annwn (2019)

• FINIS (2017)

• The Flame and the Shadow (2017)

• The Gift (2017)

• The Master's Lesson for the Apprentice Mage (2017)

• The Summoner (2017)

• The Wind (2017)

• Unheeded Warning (2017)

• Jack (a Gwawdodyn Sonnet) (2017)

• Samhain Redivivus (2017)

• The Fateful Flower (2017)

• The Witch of the Woods (2017)

• Behind the Mask (2017)

• To His Anything-but-Coy Mistress (2017)

• "footprint in red dust" (2017)

• "time machine" (2017)

• Aokigahara (2017)

• Dracul's Demesne: A Sonnet Sequence (2017) also appeared as:

  • Variant: Dracul's Demesne (2017)

• Metamorphosis (2017)

• Thoughts on the Horror Sonnet (2017)

• "clear, winter night" (2017)

• The Offering (2017)

• A Page from a Werewolf's Diary (2018)

• Vengeance (2018)

• The Last Transport (2018)

• Terror at Twilight (2018)

• Lycanthrope Moon (2018)

• The Stalking Horror (2018)

• Beware the Night! (2018)

• The Corner of the Eye (2018)

• Castle of Dread (2018)

• Et Carpe Noctum (2018) also appeared as:

  • Variant: Ea Carpe Noctis (2018)

• Thessalonike (2018)

• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul (Pickman Retold) (2018) also appeared as:

  • Variant: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul (2019)

• Portent of Doom (2018)

• Spectral Realms: An Homage (2018) also appeared as:

  • Variant: Spectral Realms: An Hommage (2019)

• The Thing in the Forest (2018)

• Weird Tales, the First Run: An Homage (2018) also appeared as:

  • Variant: Weird Tales, The First Run (2019)

• At the Gravesite (2018)

• Daydream (2018)

• Sin-Eating Jack (2018)

• The Tune on the Wind-Harp (2018) also appeared as:

  • Variant: The Tune on the Wind Harp (2019)

• Ars Timore (2018)

• The Side Unshown - A Tale of Carnival Horror (2018) also appeared as:

  • Variant: The Side Unshown: A Tale of Carnival Horror (2020)

• The Calling (2018)

• "she beckons most nights" (2018)

• "clear winter night" (2019)

• The Dutchman (2019)

• Warnings to the Curious (2019)

• "But Thinking Makes It So" (2019)

• "Four Score and Seven" (2019)

• A Call to Weird Poets (2019)

• A Casualty of the Somme (2019)

• A Challenge Met (2019)

• A Dangerous Quest (2019)

• A Day May Come (2019)

• A Desolate House (2019)

• A Haven for the Homeless (2019)

• A Little Knowledge (2019)

• A Little Square of Ink (2019)

• A Meeting of the Covern (2019)

• A Poem Upon a Page (2019)

• A Soldier's Story (2019)

• A Trisengraf (2019)

• A Warlock's Curse (2019)

• A Warning to the Curious (2019)

• Accursed (2019)

• Adventure's Call (2019)

• After Sunlight Fails (2019)

• Aftertaste (2019)

• Ars Timore (A Wreath of Sonnets) (2019)

• Asylum (2019)

• Ballade for the Would-Be Weird Poets (2019)

• Beneath the Crescent Moon (2019)

• Beware This House (2019)

• Beyond the First Attempt (2019)

• Bierce's "The Damned Thing" (2019)

• Black Shuck: A Legend of East Anglia (2019)

• Blood Bath Aftermath: Bathory's Fate (2019)

• Cambion (2019)

• Can Spring Be Far? (2019)

• Chariot of the Muse: On Writing Aerostics (2019)

• Content with Form [pun intended] (2019)

• Convert (2019)

• Credo (2019)

• Dance of the Damned (2019)

• De Forma Virtutum (2019)

• Decadence of Jade (for Park Barnitz) (2019)

• Delay (2019)

• Desolated Realm (2019)

• Dire Wolves (2019)

• Dr. Anaxagoras Venn Postulates on Occult Case (2019)

• Ennui (2019)

• Experimentation (2019)

• Familiar (2019)

• Fantasy's Greatest Gift (2019)

• First Planting (2019)

• Five Scifaiku (2019)

• Foiled Conjuring (2019)

• Forbidden Tome (2019)

• Forbidden Words (2019)

• Formal Freedom (2019)

• Forms of Fear (2019)

• Ghostku (2019)

• Goat-Sucker (2019)

• Greed's Reward (2019)

• Grettir's Battle with Glam (2019)

• Gwyn Met the Devil (2019)

• Göbekli Tepi (2019)

• Hark! The New Poets (2019)

• Her Secret (2019)

• Heritage (2019)

• Hilltop House (2019)

• Horror Poetics: Strength in Numbers (2019)

• Hunter/Hunted (2019)

• I Like Things Old (2019)

• Illinois poet, Carl drew pictures, The (2019)

• In Illinois (2019)

• In Lost Carcosa (2019)

• It is Halloween (2019)

• Jack (2019)

• Keyfinder (2019)

• La Llorona—"The Weeping Woman" (2019)

• Lamia (2019)

• Legacy (2019)

• Legend: Archer Avenue, Chicago (2019)

• Lost Atlantis (2019)

• Lycanthropos (2019)

• Mary Shelley at the Cinema (2019)

• Meta-poesis (2019)

• Moonshadows (2019)

• Mysterious Stranger (2019)

• NecronomiCon (2019)

• Necrovore (2019)

• Neighbor (2019)

• Neohyte's Lesson (2019)

• Night of the Skinwalker (2019)

• Nosferatu (2019)

• Occult Detectiv(E) (2019)

• On the Horrific Sonnet (2019)

• POdE (an Ode to Poe) (2019)

• Poet of Lost Atlantis (for Donald Sydney-Fryer) (2019)

• Poets of the Dark (2019)

• Poltergeist (2019)

• Portals (2019)

• Praeternaturalis (2019)

• Prelude (2019)

• Ragana (2019)

• Rawhead/Bloody Bones (2019)

• RE-Vision (2019)

• Renderings of Some Quantrains from Khayyam's Rubaiyat (2019)

• Repeated Ritual (2019)

• Residual Murder (2019)

• Restrictions (2019)

• Revelation (2019)

• Ring of Horror (2019)

• Rodine for Halloween (2019)

• Rolf's Ride (2019)

• Roommates (2019)

• Rose Maddow (2019)

• Rougarou (2019)

• Samhain Night (2019)

• Saucy Jack (2019)

• Sea Wife (2019)

• Shadow Folk (2019)

• Shamus (2019)

• Shaytan (2019)

• Sijo Sequence (for Frederick J. Mayer) (2019)

• Sin-Eating Jack: A Ballad of Halloween Horror (2019)

• Singing in Chains (2019)

• Skiffy (2019)

• So They Say (2019)

• Solstice Sunset (2019)

• Song of the Ghouls (2019)

• Sonnetku for Halloween (2019)

• Sorrow Singer (for Frederick Goddard Tuckerman) (2019)

• Spawn of Iblis (2019)

• Stoned Troll (2019)

• Tasty Bugs (2019)

• That Old House (2019)

• The Absinthe Drinker (2019)

• The Awakening (Karloff in the Mummy) (2019)

• The Bards (for Robert E. Howard) (2019)

• The Beast of Bodmin Moor (2019)

• The Cabin Just Outside (2019)

• The Carnacki Formula (for Wm. Hope Hodgson) (2019)

• The Charge of the Foot Brigade (2019)

• The Choice (2019)

• The Communicant (2019)

• The Condemned (2019)

• The Coven's Hornbook (2019)

• The Crossing (2019)

• The Cursed Recipe (2019)

• The Devil's Dinner Party (2019)

• The Discovery (2019)

• The Game (2019)

• The Gathering (2019)

• The Gist Is Found by Listing (2019)

• The Golden Knight and the Dragon (2019)

• The Great Eisteddfod (2019)

• The Guardian of the Garden (2019)

• The Guide (2019)

• The Hag of the Mists (2019)

• The Hanging Tree (2019)

• The Harvest (2019)

• The Hound (2019)

• The House on Witch Hill (2019)

• The Hunt (2019)

• The Korrigans (2019)

• The Lake's Secret (2019)

• The Last Eclogue (2019)

• The Lines (2019)

• The Lost Lover's Message (2019)

• The Magic Portal (for Arthur Conan Doyle) (2019)

• The Mission (2019)

• The Occult Detective (2019)

• The Poet's Challenge (2019)

• The Quarrel (2019)

• The Race (2019)

• The Realms of Gold (2019)

• The Repetitive Client (for Arthur Conan Doyle) (2019)

• The Sci-Fi Sonnet (2019)

• The Scroll of Thoth (2019)

• The Secrets (2019)

• The Sonneteers (2019)

• The Tylwyth Teg (2019)

• The Vine, The Wine, The Design (2019)

• The Waking (2019)

• The Ways Poems Come to Me (Sequence of Poems) (2019)

• The Weird Poem: Some Thoughts (2019)

• The Well of the Witch (Sonnet Sequence) (2019)

• The Wight of the West Barrow (2019)

• The Witches' Rite at Beltane (2019)

• The Witches' Sabbats (2019)

• The Wood (2019)

• These Leaves Falling (2019)

• They (2019)

• Those Days in Salem Town (2019)

• Though Some Will Say (2019)

• Transformation (2019)

• Transylvanian Legend (2019)

• Two Techniques for Poetic Revision (2019)

• Under the Skull of Ymir (2019)

• Undine (2019)

• Unwelcome Guest (2019)

• Why Time Travel Will Be a Long Way Off (2019)

• Winter Again (2019)

• Witching Well (2019)

• Worn Paths Are Best Followed (2019)

• Wrong Turn (2019)

• Wronged Sorceress (2019)

• The Forsaken (2019)

• The Great Wheel (2019)

• The Promised Awakening (2019)

• The Ancient Crossing (2019)

• The Habit of Killing (2019)

• The Pathways of R'lyeh (2019)

• Black Holes (2020)

• Reset (2020)

• Minoan Messages (2020)

• The Conjuring (2020)

• A Demon's Thoughts (2020)

• A Gargoyle's Meditations (2020)

• Adam and the Eildon Tree (2020)

• Antikithera (2020)

• Aokigahara Lullaby (2020)

• Audience with the Last King (2020)

• Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows (2020)

• Cassandra (2020)

• Convergence (2020)

• Curse of the Dragon's Son (2020)

• Danger Zone (2020)

• Eidolon (2020)

• Enheduanna (2020)

• Eos (2020)

• Event Horizon (2020)

• Fib-on-ac-ci-dent? (2020)

• For Now, They Sleep (2020)

• Freolaf at the Bridge (2020)

• Ghazal for Samhain (2020)

• Going Beyond (2020)

• Hide and Seek (2020)

• If But They Could (2020)

• In Transylvania (2020)

• Incursion (2020)

• It WAS a Dark and Stormy Night (2020)

• Ithaqua (2020)

• Jenny Greenteeth (2020)

• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E "?Poetry?" (2020)

• La Bête: The Beast of Gévaudan?

  (2020)

• Leaving Earth Behind (2020)

• Loup-Garou (2020)

• Mage of Minstrelsy (2020)

• Mentis Ignis (The Mind's Fire) (2020)

• Mephistophales & Faust (2020)

• Merlin's Vision (2020)

• Odin (2020)

• Odin's Footsteps (2020)

• Old Whitey (2020)

• One Way Robert Frost and I Are Different (2020)

• Portrait of the Artist (2020)

• Post- (2020)

• Proem: They Say My Verse Is Weird (2020)

• Rapa Nui (2020)

• Redcap (2020)

• Renderings of Some Quatrains of Khayyám's Rubáiyát into Verse (2020)

• Summoning at New Moon (2020)

• Taking Measures (2020)

• The Birth of Freolaf (2020)

• The Blue Men of the Minch (2020)

• The Crawling Chaos (2020)

• The Cyborg Dilemma (2020)

• The Edge (2020)

• The Eve of November (2020)

• The First Attempt (2020)

• The Gate (2020)

• The Ghosts of Old Samhain (2020)

• The Idol (2020)

• The Majority (and Rules) (2020)

• The Return (2020)

• The Spooky Path Not Taken (2020)

• The True Test (2020)

• The Twilight Zone: An Homage (2020)

• The Vampire Ball: A Megasonnet Sequence (2020)

• The Veil Is Torn (2020)

• The Wheel of the Year (2020)

• The White Face (2020)

• The Wooing of the Witch (2020)

• The Work of Art in the Age of Free and Instant Distribution (2020)

• They Watch and Wait (2020)

• To Keep Samhain from Being Dull (2020)

• Valley of Dread (2020)

• Vampire Song (2020)

• Verse's Vagabond (2020)

• Weird Verse Should Strive (2020)

• When the Moon Is Full (2020)

• Wordsmith's of the Weird (2020)

• Agon (2020)

• The Line (2020)

• He Who Waits (2020)

• Ouroboros (2020)

• The Hidebehind: A Legend of the North Country (2020)

• Georgics for Cthulhu (2020)

• Halloween 2020 (2020)

• Night Shapes (2020)

• Beyond the Veil (2020)

• Toward Solstice Station (2020) with Steven Withrow

• Lawrence Talbot (2021)

• The Dearg-Due: An Irish Legend of Horror (2021)

• The Woses (2021)

• "Seek and Ye Might Find":A Ghost Bloggers' Tale (2021)

• A Ditty on One Rhyme (2021)

• A Haunting (2021)

• A Place Possessed (2021)

• A Short Note to My Son (2021)

• A Short Tale Retold (2021)

• A Thin Place (2021)

• All Hallows Eve (2021)

• As Summer Turns to Autumn (2021)

• Baleful Bond (2021)

• Beyond All Hallow' (2021)

• Beyond the Bourn (2021)

• Beyong the Veil (2021)

• Breed Accursed (2021) also appeared as:

  • Variant: Breed Accursed (2) (2021)

• Captain Gruchy's Ghost: A Tale of Old Boston's North Tunnels (2021)

• Chaos from the Cosmos (2021)

• Citadel Accursed (2021)

• Close Behind (2021)

• Cornish Creatures (2021)

• Curse of the Undead (2021)

• Dawn of the Night (2021)

• Dog Star (2021)

• Dusk Dangers, Strange Seasons (2021)

• Dyn Blaidd (2021)

• Eclipse of the Moon (2021)

• El Coco (2021)

• Facade: Halloween Masked Ball—1925 (2021)

• Georgies for Cthulhu (2021)

• Grammy Hawkins' Book (2021)

• Indelible Vision (2021)

• Joining the Club (2021)

• Kyayyám's Rubáiyát / Dedication of the Second Edition (2021)

• La Villa Infestada: The Last Pages from The Journal of Montague Le Fanu Blackpool (2021)

• Laika (2021)

• Laplace's Demon (2021)

• Legend of the Lich (2021)

• Little Armored One (2021)

• Long Hidden (2021)

• Long Lines of Gray (2021)

• Longmire (2021)

• Lost Thoughts of the Amateur Medium (2021)

• Lycan (2021)

• Malum ex Machina (2021)

• Margin-Ail-ia (2021)

• Micro-Organisms (2021)

• Nachzehrer (2021)

• Old Words (2021)

• On Getting Older (2021)

• Ouija (2021)

• Ousting Articles (2021)

• Out There (2021)

• Pandemic (2021)

• Past Tense (2021)

• Perspective (2021)

• Poenari (2021)

• Poeti in grado di catturare gli strani (2021)

• Point of View (2021)

• Preparations (2021)

• Problem Dis-Solved (2021)

• Re-Creation (2021)

• Roundmoon Rituaol (2021)

• Sad Seeps Beneath the Silent Moon (2021)

• Santa Compaña (2021)

• Split Person-alities: Two "Double Exposure" Sonnets (2021)

• The "Canni-Ballad" of Sawney Bean (2021)

• The Algul (2021)

• The Ankou (2021)

• The Baba Yaga (2021)

• The Blue Holes of Andros: Two Bahanian Legends (2021)

• The Bunyip (2021)

• The Collection (2021)

• The Darkroom (2021)

• The Decipherment: An Epyllon (2021)

• The Devil's Dell (2021)

• The Fiend of The Fens (2021)

• The Greyman of Ben MacDhui: An Old Scot Tells a Tale (2021)

• The Jiangshi (2021)

• The Nachtkrappl (2021)

• The Old Ones (2021)

• The Reaping (2021)

• The Skald Sings of Samhain (2021)

• The Socratic Method (2021)

• The Truly Lost Tribe (2021)

• The Unlikeness (2021)

• The Valdemar Effect (2021)

• The Witch House (2021)

• The Woman of the Mound (2021)

• This Side (2021)

• Weir Home (2021)

• White Watkins (2021)

• Words on Ghastly Vellum Writ (2021)

• Yurei (2021)

• La Villa Infestada (2021)

• Shadows, You Say (2021)

• Sad Steps Beneath the Silent Moon (2021)

• Monstrous Meetings (2021)

• Eidolon Tetratych (2022)

• The Clingers (2022)

• The Lorelei (2022)

• Dweller in the Hidden Chamber (The Great Pyramid, Giza) (2022)

• The Doorway (2022)

• Fantasy's Values (2022)

• The Magic Portal (2022)

• I See Too Much: A Clairvoyant's Complaint (2022)

• The Final Space Odyssey (2022)

• The Seeker's Lament (2022)

• The Kannibaali (2022)

• Crossing Over (2022)

• Locus Horroris (2023)

• Mr. Illusive (2023)

• Pericula Noctis (2023)

• Dracul's Demense: A Sonnet Sequence (2023)

• A Cabin in the Wood (2023)

• Lob (2023)

• Strange Door, Odd Key (2023)

• A Martian Memoir (2023)

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Essays

• A Drawing by Robert E. Howard: "Where the East and the West Shall Meet" (2001)

• Editor's Welcome (2001)

• Lock Box 313 (The Dark Man #5) (2001)

• The Cairn (The Dark Man #5) (2001)

• A Note from the Editor (2002)

• Notes on Two Versions of an Unpublished Poem by Robert E. Howard (2002)

• Editor's Corner (The Dark Man #7) (2004) with Charles Allen Gramlich and Mark Hall and Scotty Henderson only appeared as:

  • Variant: Editor's Corner (2004) [as by Frank Coffman and Charles Gramlich and Mark Hall and Scotty Henderson]

• Letter (The Cimmerian, August 2004) (2004)

• Robert E. Howard and Poetic Narrative: The Bardic Tradition and "Popular Modernities" (2006)

• Texas Talespinner: Robert E. Howard's Ways with Words (2006)

• Letter (The Cimmerian, April 2008) (2008)

• The Robert E. Howard Poetry Collections: An Overview (2008)

• Skelos (2009) with Rusty Burke

• A Mock "Discovery": The Palimpsest Version of Robert E. Howard's "Cimmeria" Written in Anglo-Saxon (2009)

• Introduction (Coffman Street) (2009)

• Introduction - Robert E. Howard: The Flame and the Shadow (2009)

• Poetic Justice: Glenn Lord's Achievement in the Publication and Popularization of Howard's Poetry (2011)

• Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic and Epistolary Origins of the Character and His World (2012)

• The Poets of Weird Tales (2016)

• The Poets of Weird Tales: Part 2 (2016)

• Verse vs. Free Verse (2018)

• A New Formalist (book reviews) (2018)

• Glossary of Forms (2019)

• Introduction (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) (2019)

• List of Illustrations (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) (2019)

• Preface (Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows) (2020)

• A Note to the Reader (Speculations II: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2019) (2020)

• Notes: on "The Blue Holes of Andros" (2021)

• Poet's Prefact (Eclipse of the Moon) (2021)

• Illustrateing Robert E. Howard in Weird Tales (2021)

• Editor's Welcome (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)

• Introduction to Fantasy (section introduction) (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)

• Introduction to Horror & the Supernatural (section introduction) (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)

• Introduction to Science Fiction (section introduction) (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)

 

Cover Art

• Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard (2006)

• Coffman Street: Poems for Robert E. Howard (2010)

• The Vampiricon: Imaginings & Images of the Vampire (2023)

 

Interior Art

• Illustration of The Hornbook in The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019)