Candle in the Attic Window arrives -- with poetry

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My contributor's copy of Candle in the Attic Window (Innsmouth Free Press) arrived today!  I was expecting a quality production, and I wasn't disappointed: 289 pages of nicely formatted trade paperback darkness, with a color cover which vaguely reminds me of Collinsport.  Or, of course, Innsmouth.

What I hadn't expected was that the twenty-seven nuggets of Gothic horror inside included seven poems (one of them mine).  Seven!  It's rare for horror anthologies -- at least those I've run across recently -- to permit even one poem to creep inside, let alone multiples of them. And that's a shame, because poetry and horror have always gotten along very, very well.  (Right, Mr. Poe?)

Editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles are to be commended for opening this anthology (and others forthcoming) to all practitioners of the literary dark arts. 

Poets appearing in Candle in the Attic Window include Amanda C. Davis, Colleen Anderson, Maria Mitchell, Mary E. Choo, Mary Cook,  Wenona Napolitano, and Yours Truly.