This is the expanded sixth edition of Brett Rutherford's
landmark poetry collection, Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poetry.
This extraordinary 420-page paperback contains all the poet's
supernatural poems, including 12 major new poems added since the last edition,
and revisions to eight of the earlier works. Praised by Robert Bloch and Ray
Bradbury, these may be the best supernatural poems of our time. The writing
ranks from the seriously Gothic through the downright hilarious, including
Gorgons, Golems, Egyptian mummies, Lovecraftian horrors, vampires, werewolves,
possessed sex toys and stuffed animals, and the personal recollections of
Fritz, the hunchback assistant of Dr. Frankenstein. All of Rutherford's
Lovecraft-related poems are collected in this volume -- more than 100 pages of
Lovecraftian items including all the poems written for the annual ceremonies at
HPL's gravesite in Providence. Other major new items in this collection include
the long narrative poem “Mrs. Friedman’s Golem,” and accounts of Pittsburgh’s
radioactive grave-walking specter, the most alarming bed-and-breakfast stay of
all time, a secret mental ward full of Lovecraft fans, and a young girl’s
lessons in witchcraft in ancient Corinth.
This is the 255th publication of The Poet’s Press, under its Grim
Reaper Books imprint.
Sixth edition, revised and expanded 2019. 414 pp., 6x9. ISBN
9781701296275 . $19.95.
