Eric Kapitan’s title Darkness – Poems of Extreme Horror is pretty much a review in and of itself. Kapitan’s collection of horror poems is dark, gore-filled, but in some instances extremely beautiful ...

Echoes of the fantasies of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard resonate through the poems that make up this retrospective collection of macabre verse. Working mostly in basic rhyming quadrameter and ...

MATTOON -- Josh Annis has always been fascinated with legends about werewolves, vampires and other things that people fear might go bump in the night. When the Mattoon resident started writing poetry ...

In honor of National Poetry Month, Slate asked a handful of writers and editors to name a poem they turned to in a time of war. By the time we had gathered their responses, the second Gulf War was ...

New science-fiction books offer techno terror, body horror and a novel-length poem Mason Coile, Grace Walker and Whitney French have new long-form fiction, and Nnedi Okorafor edits a short story ...