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The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.65 — 145 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 — 114 ratings — published 2017
Breathe. Breathe. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.46 — 68 ratings — published 2017
Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.43 — 54 ratings — published 2005
White Knuckle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.48 — 500 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 4.42 — 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 — 270 ratings — published 2020
Into the Forest and all the Way Through (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,448 ratings — published 2020
Cradleland of Parasites (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 236 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 4.05 — 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 — 3,263 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 — 844,533 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 — 48 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
To My Eating Disorder (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.75 — 10 ratings — published
Confessions of Her (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 464 ratings — published 2020
Verses from the Dark Side of the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Know Your Bones: A Poetry Collection (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.86 — 11 ratings — published
Stitched Together (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.50 — 1 rating — published
Sad Girl Quotes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.75 — 9 ratings — published
i am tired of being a dandelion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.72 — 420 ratings — published 2021
My Healing Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 1 rating — published
Paper Girl and the Knives that Made Her (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 415 ratings — published
Open Wounds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.28 — 20 ratings — published
When I'm Not There (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 41 ratings — published 2016
Girl Made of Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,127 ratings — published
It Starts Like This: a collection of poetry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 648 ratings — published
All The Things I Never Said (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,545 ratings — published 2013
girl, isolated: poems, notes on healing, etc. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,082 ratings — published 2021
Small Ghost (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as dark-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,135 ratings — published 2015
“The Mortal Tempest by Stewart Stafford
In the tranquil, shaded crypt,
Life's storms batter no more,
Historia, the isolated remnant,
Of an interior remembrance.
The howling gale, a mourner's cry,
Icy tendrils reaching to exert,
The only possible pressure,
On a shell in heedless slumber.
A post-mortem death wish,
Phantom projection of the morbid,
To vacate an urn and soar,
Swirling ash in the mortal tempest.
© 2021, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
In the tranquil, shaded crypt,
Life's storms batter no more,
Historia, the isolated remnant,
Of an interior remembrance.
The howling gale, a mourner's cry,
Icy tendrils reaching to exert,
The only possible pressure,
On a shell in heedless slumber.
A post-mortem death wish,
Phantom projection of the morbid,
To vacate an urn and soar,
Swirling ash in the mortal tempest.
© 2021, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“A Waterfront Wake
by Stewart Stafford
Creeping Cavalry Avenue since dusk,
No drugs or drink can fix this husk,
The dregs of dawn - wheezing, grey,
Hunkered down in a ruinous doorway.
Corralled in solo cold from the start,
No gilded benefactor plays a part.
Wait for the post-mortem’s sparse tally,
Or the gin-soaked wake in Cutthroat Alley.
The infant head wetted in the font,
Re-baptised in booze on the waterfront.
The stage struck futile bows ago,
Cut encore; curtain falls on the show.
© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
by Stewart Stafford
Creeping Cavalry Avenue since dusk,
No drugs or drink can fix this husk,
The dregs of dawn - wheezing, grey,
Hunkered down in a ruinous doorway.
Corralled in solo cold from the start,
No gilded benefactor plays a part.
Wait for the post-mortem’s sparse tally,
Or the gin-soaked wake in Cutthroat Alley.
The infant head wetted in the font,
Re-baptised in booze on the waterfront.
The stage struck futile bows ago,
Cut encore; curtain falls on the show.
© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
