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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 — 138 ratings — published
The Saint of Witches (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.51 — 53 ratings — published 2022
Mourning Jewelry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.46 — 63 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 — 111 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 4.45 — 56 ratings — published 2005
White Knuckle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.51 — 475 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 — 201 ratings — published
Burials (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.40 — 43 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 — 260 ratings — published 2020
Into the Forest and all the Way Through (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,374 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 4.41 — 96 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 4.07 — 154 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 — 3,195 ratings — published 2018
Snail Vixen and The Crystal Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 40 ratings — published
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
Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 21 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 — 7 ratings — published
Blue Stingers Instead of Wings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2025
Inviting...and other misfortunes (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Suckerpunching Spite (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Interrupted Cadence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Fist of the North Star, Vol. 8 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 337 ratings — published 2013
Deathbed Bling: Dark Poetry (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,628,445 ratings — published 1965
DEATH & OTHER FORMS OF DEVOTION (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 5.00 — 8 ratings — published
The Testimony of the Suns, and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 1903
“You left like Prometheus in reverse, stealing the fire and leaving me chained to silence.”
― Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul
― Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul
“Posed In Vein by Stewart Stafford
O Stephanie!
In your cruciform puppetry,
Bloody veins stretched out wiry
To relive in a bondage diary.
Subject mapped as inked skin she wears,
Decorating, desecrating olden snares.
Each needle kiss, a line defined,
A pinprick story rushes her mind.
By candlelight, in her coven deep,
Secrets webbed flies must keep,
Spelled out straight in her hexing book,
Consort Lenore gives a cryptic look.
They tug the strings, the marionette,
Caught in her captor's welcome net.
In artificial light, a social moth's mien,
A wrought, posed, fetishistic scene.
The knots are tight, the ropes defined;
Bodily and in private mind.
This mutual art, a supplicant's plea,
Cut into her Kinbaku diary.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
O Stephanie!
In your cruciform puppetry,
Bloody veins stretched out wiry
To relive in a bondage diary.
Subject mapped as inked skin she wears,
Decorating, desecrating olden snares.
Each needle kiss, a line defined,
A pinprick story rushes her mind.
By candlelight, in her coven deep,
Secrets webbed flies must keep,
Spelled out straight in her hexing book,
Consort Lenore gives a cryptic look.
They tug the strings, the marionette,
Caught in her captor's welcome net.
In artificial light, a social moth's mien,
A wrought, posed, fetishistic scene.
The knots are tight, the ropes defined;
Bodily and in private mind.
This mutual art, a supplicant's plea,
Cut into her Kinbaku diary.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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