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The poem is recursive, ending where it begins, with the stanza "I can't go out no more. There's a man by the door in a raincoat" The poem also has ties to the Dark Tower epic. When King originally began writing The Stand, he wrote "A dark man with no face." This became the description for Randall Flagg and is an exact line from the poem.
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
Requiem is often said to have no clearly definable plot but has many themes which carry throughout the entire poem. [7] One of the most important themes that also stands as part of the title is the theme of "A poem without a hero". [7] [9] Throughout the entire cycle and the many poems within, there is no hero that comes to the rescue. It is ...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In 2011, HarperCollins published editions featuring new art by Brett Helquist , causing mass controversy among fans of Gammell.
Songs of a Dead Dreamer is a 1986 horror short story collection by American writer Thomas Ligotti. It has been acknowledged as one of the seminal collections of modern weird horror fiction by Ligotti's peers, such as Ramsey Campbell. Many of its stories show the influence of Ligotti's literary idols of horror such as H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar ...
From exorcisms and people possessed to the supernatural, these books are sure to spook you just in time for Halloween. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...
We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger. But exactly when and where the earliest fable-spinners lived remains a mystery.
Haiku by Unohu by Keith Allen Daniels, Anamnesis Press, April 2000, ISBN 1-892842-09-2 (because most of the poems are humorous, they could be best be described as science fiction senryū) Scifaikuest , a quarterly online and print short-form SFF poetry journal from Alban Lake Publishing (formerly Sam's Dot Publishing) ISSN 1558-9757