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Dark Poetry Books
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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 3.66 — 107 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 4.16 — 110 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 — 266 ratings — published 2020
Into the Forest and all the Way Through (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,425 ratings — published 2020
Cradleland of Parasites (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.06 — 233 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 — 158 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 — 3,249 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 — 832,175 ratings — published 2014
Doll Shaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.58 — 59 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
The Sun and Her Flowers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 388,574 ratings — published 2018
Home Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 163,045 ratings — published 2020
Inherited Hunger (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 326 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 4.13 — 23 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
Blue Stingers Instead of Wings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2025
“The Scavenger's Ledger by Stewart Stafford
The scratch of a nib on paper
Tells me I am alive, I think.
At this Heaven/Hell midpoint—
A torn throat for a poison drink.
The horizon lit up again tonight,
Rebels fight for futile freedom,
Happiness, a cold, distant stranger,
No gifted transfusion to bleed him.
Willingly failing the audition of life,
Food appears to have lost all taste,
A numb tongue or cheap ingredients,
I cannot let one crumb go to waste.
They’ve finally cured me of love,
Stripped every vestige of me away,
Carrying my grave upon my back,
Their snail slithers from day to day.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
The scratch of a nib on paper
Tells me I am alive, I think.
At this Heaven/Hell midpoint—
A torn throat for a poison drink.
The horizon lit up again tonight,
Rebels fight for futile freedom,
Happiness, a cold, distant stranger,
No gifted transfusion to bleed him.
Willingly failing the audition of life,
Food appears to have lost all taste,
A numb tongue or cheap ingredients,
I cannot let one crumb go to waste.
They’ve finally cured me of love,
Stripped every vestige of me away,
Carrying my grave upon my back,
Their snail slithers from day to day.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“A Momentary Flicker by Stewart Stafford
Keeper of pristine candlelight,
In corrupted hourglass time,
Chest-pumped at your "yield"—
So why asset-strip mine?
You claim we shed virginity together,
A lecherous faux-naif purloins truth,
My age will be the years you get—
That collar shall be your noose.
Your crimes are beyond absolution,
Your extant sextant for baleful stars,
Fevered pleas and penitent sighs,
To a confessional's hidden bars.
So why scalpel-slit a seeping scar?
Karma totals defrocked degradation,
A besmeared, hacked-up oil painting—
Damnation's inferno predation.
Your words, woven with deception,
Vanish like smoke from a flame.
From shaded rebirth, I set forth.
I reclaim my dawn, my light, my name.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Keeper of pristine candlelight,
In corrupted hourglass time,
Chest-pumped at your "yield"—
So why asset-strip mine?
You claim we shed virginity together,
A lecherous faux-naif purloins truth,
My age will be the years you get—
That collar shall be your noose.
Your crimes are beyond absolution,
Your extant sextant for baleful stars,
Fevered pleas and penitent sighs,
To a confessional's hidden bars.
So why scalpel-slit a seeping scar?
Karma totals defrocked degradation,
A besmeared, hacked-up oil painting—
Damnation's inferno predation.
Your words, woven with deception,
Vanish like smoke from a flame.
From shaded rebirth, I set forth.
I reclaim my dawn, my light, my name.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
