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PROFESSOR LaGUNGO'S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES: INCREASED INVENTORY
by Mark McLaughlin
Available as a paperback or for FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7Z9S73Q
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7Z9S73Q

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Mark McLaughlin’s 2002 poetry collection, “Professor LaGungo’s Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles,” now out of print, was a nominee for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award in the Poetry category. This “Increased Inventory” version of that collection features even more items from the notorious shelves of the Professor’s occult shop.

If you are not familiar with the Professor and his work, you will learn that he is an expert on all matters infernal, and is more than willing to share his knowledge.

Free-verse poems to be found in this collection include the following: “The Jack-The-Ripper-In-The-Box,” “The Eye Of A Nameless Idol,” “A Hollow Ceramic Cat With Something Vile Inside,” “A Vacuum Cleaner Filled With Unholy Ashes,” “Einstein’s Death-Ray Gun,” “The Obligatory Haunted Mirror,” “A Moon Rock With Some Alien Blood On It,” “A Rocking Horse With An Eerie Secret,” “The Sandwich That Killed Cleopatra,” “Little Typhoid Mary’s Coloring Book,” “Torquemada’s Clockwork Torture Automaton” and many more.

Crushed Velvet: Poems Of Horror & Beauty
by Mark McLaughlin

Available as a paperback or on Kindle/Kindle Unlimited.
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BG8T5J5R
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BG8T5J5R

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

CRUSHED VELVET: POEMS OF HORROR & BEAUTY features the best of Mark McLaughlin’s poetry throughout his career. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies. His books include the novels, HUMAN DOLL, THE HELL NEXT DOOR, and INJECTABLES. McLaughlin was also one of the authors of THE GOSSAMER EYE, a collection that won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry category.

Three authors were featured in THE GOSSAMER EYE: Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson. The three authors represented in this collection wrote in numerous speculative genres, with an emphasis on horror and dark fantasy. McLaughlin is also the author of many other poetry collections, including PROFESSOR LAGUNGO’S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES, which was a nominee for the 2003 Bram Stoker Poetry Award.

“I have always felt that dark verse has to feature more than just gore, gloom, and violence,” McLaughlin said. “There has to be some profound human element. That element can be love, humor, irony, a contrasting appreciation of beauty, or any combination of possible options.”

CRUSHED VELVET features a wide variety of McLaughlin’s poems from various anthologies, magazines, and collections of his work. Poems you will find in this collection include “Now Is The Winter Of My Discontent Pterodactyl,” “Death Is Coming For You, My Friend,” “I Had A Dream And You Were In It,” “Mom And Dad Went Insane And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt,” “Older Than Dirt And Twice As Ugly,” “The Return Of Lizard-Lips,” “Steamroller Concerto (In B-Flat),” “A Dream Of Shrieking Insects,” “Consummate Blasphemy Of The Rustmad Technogod,” “Caligari, Inc.,” “Scandalicious,” “The Snickerer In The Snack Machine,” “Internet Witches,” and “A Flaming Death Is Not For Me.”

EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH: Poems Of Dark Wonder
by Mark McLaughlin
Available on Kindle/Kindle Unlimited and as a Paperback.
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BK5TL99Y
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BK5TL99Y

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

The poems in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH cover a wide range of dark fantasy and horror themes, including mythical creatures, strange love, dark magic, and bizarre twists of fate. Mark McLaughlin’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared worldwide in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies.

McLaughlin’s books include the novels, HUMAN DOLL, THE HELL NEXT DOOR, and INJECTABLES. He is also the author of CRUSHED VELVET: POEMS OF HORROR & BEAUTY. Mark was one of the authors of THE GOSSAMER EYE, a collection that won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry category. His 2002 poetry collection, PROFESSOR LaGUNGO’S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES was a nominee for the 2003 Stoker Poetry Award.

Poems collected in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH include the following, as well as many more: “The Further Adventures Of Lizzie Borden,” “The Murdermobile,” “Poetry & Discipline,” “Lord Of The Canals,” “Ancient Egyptian Home Shopping Network,” “Pop-Up Grimoire,” “Ten Things To Feed An Infant Zombie, Should You Find Yourself Having To Care For One,” “Strange Survivals: A Mythos Update,” “Summer Blockbuster,” “Addressing The Global Symposium On Spontaneous Combustion,” “After Valiant Perseus Snicked Off Medusa’s Head,” “A Spell To Reverse An Unfortunate Turn Of Events,” and “Embrace Of The Internet Witch.”

THE POETRY OF MARK McLAUGHLIN
All of these books are available as Paperbacks or on Kindle/Kindle Unlimited.

EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH: POEMS OF DARK WONDER
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BK5TL99Y
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BK5TL99Y
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
The poems in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH cover a wide range of dark fantasy and horror themes, including mythical creatures, strange love, dark magic, and bizarre twists of fate.

PROFESSOR LaGUNGO'S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES: INCREASED INVENTORY
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7Z9S73Q
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7Z9S73Q
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Mark McLaughlin’s 2002 poetry collection, “Professor LaGungo’s Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles,” now out of print, was a nominee for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award in the Poetry category. This “Increased Inventory” version of that collection features even more items from the notorious shelves of the Professor’s occult shop.

CRUSHED VELVET: POEMS OF HORROR & BEAUTY
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BG8T5J5R
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BG8T5J5R
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
CRUSHED VELVET features the best of Mark McLaughlin’s poetry throughout his career. McLaughlin was one of the authors of THE GOSSAMER EYE, a collection that won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry. His books also include many other poetry collections, as well as the novels, HUMAN DOLL, THE HELL NEXT DOOR, and INJECTABLES. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, websites, and anthologies.

THE POETRY OF MARK McLAUGHLIN
All of these books are available as paperbacks or on Kindle/Kindle Unlimited.
.
EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH: POEMS OF DARK WONDER
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BK5TL99Y
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BK5TL99Y

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

The poems in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH cover a wide range of dark fantasy and horror themes, including mythical creatures, strange love, dark magic, and bizarre twists of fate.
.
PROFESSOR LaGUNGO'S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES: INCREASED INVENTORY
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7Z9S73Q
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7Z9S73Q

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Mark McLaughlin’s 2002 poetry collection, “Professor LaGungo’s Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles,” now out of print, was a nominee for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award in the Poetry category. This “Increased Inventory” version of that collection features even more items from the notorious shelves of the Professor’s occult shop.
.
CRUSHED VELVET: POEMS OF HORROR & BEAUTY
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BG8T5J5R
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BG8T5J5R

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

CRUSHED VELVET features the best of Mark McLaughlin’s poetry throughout his career. McLaughlin was one of the authors of THE GOSSAMER EYE, a collection that won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry. His books also include many other poetry collections, as well as the novels, HUMAN DOLL, THE HELL NEXT DOOR, and INJECTABLES.