These poems have been written over the course of several years, and therefore reflect a myriad of sensibilities. Some of the poems reflect emotions as they pertain to feeling alienated, misunderstood, or different, gothic subculture, desire, morbid curiosity, and a love of all things dark, embracing our darkest fears, and confronting our inner demons.

Dark Emotionally charged poetry about love lost and gained and everything in between. This is volume 2 with more poetry, less graphics, and much more affordable.

21st Century Original Gothic Poetry by Strange Nocturnal. Words to stir the soul and send shivers down the spine! From the imagination of internationally acclaimed Gothic Horror Lyricist & Composer, Strange Nocturnal. For lovers of Poetry, Gothic, Horror, Romance, Comedies & Tragedies, All in One Volume!

Original working manuscript of Swinburne's poem "The garden of Proserpine". Bound with the manuscript pages are a printed version of the poem from an unknown published edition (pages numbered 189-192). Formerly owned by the book collector and literary forger Harry Buxton Forman. A note from Forman is written on a blank leaf preceding the manuscript: The Garden of Proserpine, perhaps the loveliest lyric poem Swinburne ever wrote, was set up from this autograph manuscript when the poem took its place in the renowned volume known as Poems and Ballads, issued in the Autumn of 1866, immediately withdrawn under pressure by Mr. Moxon, and speedily re-issued by John Camden Hotten. The calligraphy is more characteristic than excellent. The cancellings and changes, however, are of considerable interest.

Poet, author, musician, movie director, actor, radio DJ and photographer, Randy James Rosko has really outdone himself with this feature book, Gothic Poetry: For the Pure of Heart. This book is a labor of love and contains poetry from all Rosko's years of hard work: 1983-2021. All the poetry in this volume was inspired by the seven muses: beauty, sorrow, joy, isolation, mystery, darkness, and paradise lost and once again found. Rosko has experienced these seven muses numerous times with the passing years. Not since Edgar Allen Poe or Lord Byron has poetry come alive in such a macabre way! The poems in this volume deal with love, life, death, and of course, the supernatural. They range from the deadly serious to the morbidly playful and sensual.

The texts in this unique collection range from the Gothic Revival of the late eighteenth century through to the late Victorian gothic, and from the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge to the short fiction of H.G. Wells and Henry James. Genres represented include medievalist poetry, psychological thrillers, dark political dystopias, sinister tales of social corruption, and popular ghost tales. In addition to a wide selection of classic and lesser-known texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gothic Evolutions includes key examples of the aesthetic, scientific, and cultural theory related to the Gothic, from John Locke and David Hume to Sigmund Freud and Julia Kristeva.

Poetry. Winner of the 2019 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. "The poems in MIDWEST GOTHIC make the daily deliciously strange--'the daily / which isn't still at all but a whirring / gone deep.' They make us work our way inside them, but once I entered this book, I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay in 'the copper-tipped town;' I wanted to stay with the delphinium, 'a choir of indigo, ' and 'cornfields made surreal / in the dark.' These difficult times have tested my faith in many things, including language, and MIDWEST GOTHIC arrived just in time to remind me what poems can do."--Maggie Smith