Literary Horror discussion

I just finished reading The Thirst of Satan by George Sterling and LOVED it. It's definitely up there next to The Last Oblivion by Clark Ashton Smith. I am now starting to read From the Cauldron by Fred Phillips, I hope it's good. I also have read and own a signed copy of The Atlantis Fragments by Donald Sidney-Fryer and that was a great read as well.

I'd definitely recommend it. :)

I just finished reading From the Cauldron by Fred Phillips and it's not bad. There are a handful of gems in there but the rest is kind of mediocre.

Sterling I don't know well, but CAS is a fave! More so for his fiction, but the poems are wild and fantastical fun.

CAS loved Sterling as a young man, and, in my opinion, for great reason. I have a book of CAS stories but have not gotten to them yet, though I will soon.

I remember reading he was a fan of Sterling. Which means I should check out Sterling, I suppose. CAS's short fiction is quite flamboyant, colorful, yet in a way that always inspires. On occasion, when I feel I need a kick in the brain to help along a story, I read some CAS or William Burroughs and my brain is hot-wired properly to take on anything.

I have his The Return of the Sorcerer book and I'm planning on reading that really soon. After reading his poetry from The Last Oblivion, it made me really intrigued about his short stories.

Hippocampus Press is supposed to be coming out with a new edition of the Book of Jade by David Park Barnitz. I recently just finished another edition of it and I love it with the poem 'The Grotesques' being one of my favorites. I will be excited to see the Hippocampus edition though as well. You can read some of his work here.
http://www.bookofjade.com/poems

The new Simon Strantzas collection "Burnt Black Suns" is now available for pre-order over at Hippocampus Press: http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mytho...

I finished reading Sanctity and Sin: The Collected Poems and Prose Poems of Donald Wandrei another one from Hippocampus and it wasn't too bad. There was a lot more free style poems than I expected, so John you might like this one. The themes and subjects were very interesting and I loved many of the prose poetry even though I'm not a big fan of prose poetry.

Randolph wrote: "Ashley wrote: "I finished reading Sanctity and Sin: The Collected Poems and Prose Poems of Donald Wandrei another one from Hippocampus and it wasn't too bad. There was a lot more free style poems ..."

That is awesome! Did you get to chat with him for long?

I was gifted Twisted in Dream by Ann K. Schwader by Hippocampus and just finished it. Though I really like how she writes, you have to be a big Lovecraft fan to really enjoy it, I think. I mean I knew that it was going to be that way before I started but wow. I'm still on my way to reading all of Lovecraft's stories so I kind of felt left out in some poems by not knowing what was being described. I really did LOVE her poem In the Night Garden though and I believe that is my favorite one.

For those who might be interested, it was pointed out to me today that, according to the author’s blog, Hippocampus Press is coming out with a collection of Rhys Hughes’ short fiction to be titled Bone Idle in the Charnel-House. I personally have mixed feelings about Hughes, sometimes finding his writing a bit too “clever” for my tastes, but he has a number of fervent admirers.

I ordered some Pugmire books recently and received them. Are they new books?

Hmmm. I'd email him again. Hippocampus can take awhile to send stuff.

TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN by Matt Cardin is now available for preorder:

https://www.hippocampuspress.com/othe...

So, did you enjoy To Rouse Leviathan? I've been considering reading it.

I haven’t finished reading To Rouse Leviathan. In my opinion, no bad story so far, the stories are around 3.5 stars.
If memory serves, the author is an academic in religious studies/theology. The universe in these stories is non mainstream Christianity.