Bøger af Bruce Boston

From the Bram Stoker Award nominated poet of Shroud of Night, Strange Vegetables, Bone Sprockets, 25 Cent Rocket Ship To The Stars and The Other Side of the Lens comes a new collection of 42 poems in the realm of the undead. Full of humor, charm and chilling imagery, Scenes Along the Zombie Highway by G.O. Clark strikes the perfect balance of levity, commentary and horror in the realm of the living dead.Zombies! There are all kinds of zombies out there these days, from the slow-witted, slow-moving kind, to the more steroid pumped-up versions of recent film and TV. In Scenes Along the Zombie Highway, you'll encounter the living dead in all their ragged, rotten glory, and upon finishing the book, leave with a twisted smile upon your face.

For his 40th collection of poetry, SFPA Grand Master Bruce Boston serves up 59 poems and prose poems, including ten appearing here for the first time, along with other artifacts reprinted from Analog, Asimov's SF Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Grievous Angel, New Myths, Polu Texni, The HWA Poetry Showcase, and other leading speculative publications. Cover art by Wendy Saber Core.

23 chromosomes from one parent, 23 from the other. 46 inescapable parts to a recipe. In Robert Frazier's case, his father was a cryptographer at Bletchley Park during WWII, and his mother was a landscape painter who studied with Emile Albert Gruppé. Thus the mystical science of deciphering gibberish into plain text meshes with a penchant for impressionistic imagery in Phantom Navigation. Within his first poetry collection in ten years, Frazier maps half-a-hundred works collected from a long career in publishing. Join the 3-time Rhysling-award-winner as he explores the intersection of science and art with a vengeance."As honest as wheat, as spectacular and absorbing as a dream, Phantom Navigation is an explosion of creativity from one of America's finest poets. Robert Frazier's breadth of vision is extraordinary." - Lucius Shepard, author of The Dragon Griaule"A little Ginsberg, a little Eliot, a little Coleridge, and a lot of storytelling in the sfinal way, yet it is poetry, pure poetry, down to its pretty little ionized toes. How can anyone who loves poetry and sf/fantasy resist this new collection by the master himself. That's it! Don't resist! Resistance is futile." - Jane Yolen, author of Things to Say to a Dead Man"Robert Frazier writes knowing, evocative, poignant, and allusive poetry. His images and metaphors, in addition to startling with their aptness, create clear pictures of alien situations and phenomena, a remarkable skill. Further, this book showcases Frazier's talents in nearly fifty disciplined individual performances." - Michael Bishop, author of The Door Gunner, and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy

We can only write what we know, whether that comes from communicating in broken French and broken English with a Parisian nurse, or staring in horror at the human effects of a geological calamity. Here are twenty years worth of dark poetry, representing a dark world, the very one we live in. These poems were written at home, at work, in the air, shipboard in the middle of the Indian Ocean, confined to a hospital bed in a foreign land, in other words, all the usual places. Influenced by Lovecraft, Zelazny, and Algernon Blackwood, among others, Kopaska-Merkel enlists his imagination and scientific background in service to poetic expressions of the wonder, horror, and magic that permeate our world.

"Mary Turzillo sees the bones beneath the skin, and lays bare the nerves. Like shiny scalpels her sardonic and lovely words mordantly reinterpret botany and biology, astronomy and mythologies, crimes and passions, pungently, poignantly." - Ian Watson, BSFA Award author of The Butterflies of Memory"In Turzillo's razor-sharp lines, lovers and killers are examined, deftly dissected, and exposed to the world. The lovers and killers that you thought you knew are transformed, viewed from new perspectives. All types are captured in these pages. Even the page and the reader fall under her scrutiny. One can't help but surrender to Turzillo's vision and unique blend of wit and profundity." - J. E. Stanley, author of Dark Intervals and Intrinsic Night"Lovers & Killers is another gem-filled collection by a consistently imaginative master. Disturbing, playful, ruthless poetry. Turzillo is an emblem of the speculative poetry genre. She's not afraid to show that Iphigenia, Shakespeare, Fomalhaut, Basho, physics and dragons all exist in the same poetic universe. Her deeply serious irony fills these poems with delightful surprises." - Timons Esaias, Asimov's Readers Award author, BSFA Award Finalist.

"If you think there's nothing new to write about the classic characters of horror and fantasy, think again. In this fine collection Robert Borski offers us witty and memorable reflections on Vlad the Impaler, Dorothy's Tin Man, Pinocchio's Gepetto, Rotwang from Metropolis, the Morlocks of H.G. Wells, Poe's Ulalume--even the Tooth Fairy. In Borski's off-kilter world, all of Hell's timepieces are synchronized to 13 o'clock, the hour when "dust-bellied monsters decide / to stop holding their breath for fear of being / detected, and emerge from under the bed." He lets those monsters loose in Blood Wallah and Other Poems, and the grateful reader can't help but be thrilled." - Christopher Conlon, author of Midnight on Mourn Street and Starkweather Dreams"With Blood Wallah and Other Poems, Borski gives voice to a veritable bestiary of the genre's most beloved myth makers and monsters, providing characterizations that are sympathetic, prophetic and, at times, humorous. An insightful and intelligent collection." - Kurt Newton, author of The Ultimate perVERSEities and Life Among the Dream Merchants "Robert Borski's Blood Wallah & Other Poems is like a vampire's cellar of fine blood-wines. This is a wide-ranging collection of horror poems that often possess a sharp, humorous edge. One of my favorites is a Jack-the-Ripper piece with a perfectly appropriate illustration by Marge Simon." - Kendall Evans author of Poetry Red-Shifted in the Eyes of a Dragon "With sly, dark humor and poetic precision, Robert Borski brings originality to his take on vampires, witches, classic myths and familiar legends. Throw in predator paparazzi and a killer toaster, and Blood Wallah is one performance not to be missed." - G.O. Clark author of Shroud of Night and Bone Sprockets.

HAUNTED HOUSE NOVEL FROM BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNING AUTHOR JOE MCKINNEYIn this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning point.Those words were true when Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote them in 1851, and they were true in 1933, when a fire burned half of Crook House to the ground, taking James Crook's wife and two sons with it. A disgraced bootlegger and former pro baseball player, James Crook returned from prison to find his house, and his life, a pile of cinders. Broken and insane, he rebuilt Crook House, putting his pain and loneliness into every timber.But Hawthorne's words are still true today, and nobody knows that better than Dr. Robert Bell, who has just moved into Crook House as part of his hiring package from a small Texas college. He soon discovers that Crook House is more than just a new beginning for himself and Sarah and their daughter Angela. For the Bell family, Crook House is a place where the past still lives, and its horrors waiting for the next drowning man."A rising star on the horror scene." - FEAR NET

"The Guardener's Tale" is a dystopic novel of the future in which everything is controlled and perfect, from work to sex. Unemployment does not exist. Stimulants and holograms enhance the sexual experience. One man, Thorne, searches for something more. He learns that there is a subculture which is able, to some extent, to avoid the trappings of the perfect society...for a while. Interested in the past, Thorne learns the deadly psychological secret of the perfect society. But the past, as they say, is prologue, as is Thorne's future.