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The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.67 — 144 ratings — published
The Saint of Witches (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.49 — 51 ratings — published 2022
Mourning Jewelry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.45 — 62 ratings — published 2014
Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 27 ratings — published
The Place of Broken Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.65 — 109 ratings — published
The Gorelets Omnibus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.32 — 28 ratings — published 2012
Love For Slaughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 113 ratings — published 2017
Breathe. Breathe. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.45 — 69 ratings — published 2017
Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.44 — 55 ratings — published 2005
White Knuckle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.49 — 495 ratings — published 2020
Monstrum Poetica (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.89 — 38 ratings — published 2021
The Smallest of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 202 ratings — published
Burials (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.42 — 45 ratings — published 2020
Dragonfly And Other Songs of Mourning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.55 — 11 ratings — published
Fanged Dandelion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 267 ratings — published 2020
Into the Forest and all the Way Through (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,435 ratings — published 2020
Cradleland of Parasites (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.06 — 234 ratings — published 2020
A Complex Accident of Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.40 — 98 ratings — published 2020
THE DEMETER DIARIES (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published
Choking Back the Devil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.06 — 159 ratings — published 2019
The Horrible (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2005
It's Getting Harder and Harder To Tell the Two of You Apart (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 50 ratings — published
Bleeding Saffron (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 2018
I Am Not Your Final Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,258 ratings — published 2018
Snail Vixen and The Crystal Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 40 ratings — published
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.95 — 838,827 ratings — published 2014
Doll Shaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.55 — 60 ratings — published
Brothel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 61 ratings — published 2016
Wanderer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2013
Nightmares, Night Scares, Daydreams: a poetry collection of ghouls, ghosts, the undead, and the barely living (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2015
Fade Out, smile (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 47 ratings — published
Darkness Plays Favorites (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.52 — 29 ratings — published 2014
Rodent Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 1996
Spit Me Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.65 — 31 ratings — published 2012
Whispers Of Distress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Sun and Her Flowers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 391,558 ratings — published 2018
Home Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 164,174 ratings — published 2020
Inherited Hunger (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.27 — 347 ratings — published
No Wind That Blows from the East: An Illustrated Chapbook of Whispers and Reckoning (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Many Masks of Magzinnia...: Poetic Revelations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Picking Scabs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 24 ratings — published
The Funeral of Life: A Dark Poetry Collection (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2014
The Scary Abecedary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Lullabies for the Lost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Ghosts of My Pretty Nightmares (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Still Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 1998
Dive Back Down (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Shadow of the Soul: a collection of dark poetry and prose (True North Anthologies)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published 2023
“The Karmic Heimlich Manoeuvre by Stewart Stafford
A gargoyle’s face of stone,
Grimacing back at me,
Each wrinkle a flagellant scar,
From a Caesarean decree.
Denial’s chant, the siren’s call,
Jockeying to ride meeker backs,
Perpetrators and their victims,
Fallen bodies upon the tracks.
Deep slash from a traitor’s blade,
Gatecrasher from a coroner skit,
Staggering down the Via Dolorosa,
Guiltiest choking on a peach pit.
Then karma’s trapdoor gives,
The past never a partner barred,
Hubris’s caw now a trembling chick,
Wet noose in the hangman’s yard.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
A gargoyle’s face of stone,
Grimacing back at me,
Each wrinkle a flagellant scar,
From a Caesarean decree.
Denial’s chant, the siren’s call,
Jockeying to ride meeker backs,
Perpetrators and their victims,
Fallen bodies upon the tracks.
Deep slash from a traitor’s blade,
Gatecrasher from a coroner skit,
Staggering down the Via Dolorosa,
Guiltiest choking on a peach pit.
Then karma’s trapdoor gives,
The past never a partner barred,
Hubris’s caw now a trembling chick,
Wet noose in the hangman’s yard.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“Just because something fits like a glove, it doesn’t mean it is love.”
― Bruises Bleed Ink: Poems about toxic love, hurt and healing
― Bruises Bleed Ink: Poems about toxic love, hurt and healing
