The Book of Night: Poems of the Macabre

The Book of Night: Poems of the Macabre

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Read by: Chris J Davis

Language: English

Length: 2 hours and 46 minutes

Publisher: Helen Harrison

Release date: 2021-07-06

Welcome to the world of shadows, cloaked in perpetual starlight; its denizens are a mysterious and frightening breed. And sometimes, just sometimes, their eldritch whispers and murmurs can cross the boundaries of reality and enter our darkest dreams.

Richard Groller and his troupe of dead and living poets pull back the veil in The Book of Night, revealing the terrifying denizens of the shadows.

  • "Apparitions" - things seen and unseen at the edge of our vision, or embedded in the corners of our nightmares.
  • "Sweet Sorrow" - the pain and poignancy of loss, love unrequited, visions from afar, the pangs of memory, or the last breaths of mortals.
  • "The Autumn People" - denizens of the night welcome the Fall and its All Hallows promises.
  • "Through a Glass Darkly" - peer through the gloom seeking the moment of revelation, and all becomes clear - or not.

Come, the night awaits...

  • Poets - Living: Louis Agresta, Larry Atchley, Jr., Jeff Barnes, Dean M. Drinkel, Richard D. Evans, Jack William Finley, Allan Gilbreath, Richard Groller, Michael Hanson, Lori Martin, Chris Morris, Janet Morris, Kurt Newton, Jillian Perkins, Kimberly Richardson, Bill Snider, and Angel Weaver.
  • Poets - Deceased: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913), Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Robert Frost (1874-1963), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, (Lord Dunsany) (1878-1957), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), and Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).