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The Macabre Modern
and Other Morbidities
by Kyla Lee Ward
156 pages
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A contemporary re-envisioning of the medieval “The Dance of Death” theme (fourteenth-century), written for the twenty-first century onward. Fantastic, imaginative poetry written and illustrated by award-winning poet, author, artist, playwright, performer Kyla Lee Ward. Her poem “Revenants of the Antipodes” (in this collection) won the AHWA Australian Shadows Award for poetry 2018. ... [Read more]
Authors, Editors & Illustrators
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) attained early celebrity with the poetry volumes The Star-Treader and Other Poems (1912), Odes and Sonnets (1918), Ebony and Crystal (1922), and Sandalwood (1925). Later he wrote more than 130 tales of fantasy and horror, collected in such volumes as Out of Space and Time (1942) and Lost Worlds (1944). Smith lived most of his life in Auburn, California, and was a close friend of George Sterling, H. P. Lovecraft, and August Derleth. His Complete Poetry and translations appeared in 3 volumes in 2007–08. As far as is known, this is the very first time he has been published in Australia.