Requiem for a Siren

<p>Pulp magazines saw their heyday from the 1920s through the 1950s appealing to an audience that included men and women: A quarter of the readers of <em>Weird Tales</em> were women. Across its 30-year publishing history a third of its writers were women too.</p><p></p><p>Many of those names are lost today and those pieces have been forgotten-until now. <em>Requiem for a Siren</em> is the first anthology devoted to the women poets of the pulps. These 101 poems by 47 women first appeared in magazines like <em>Weird Tales</em> and <em>Amazing Stories</em>. The mothers and godmothers of the genre these writers penned striking lyrics of death monsters ghosts and nightmares.</p><p></p><p>You may recognize some of the names-Mary Elizabeth Counselmen Dorothy Quick and Leah Bodine Drake are three of the more well-known included here. Hopefully you'll discover some new-to-you favorites too as you page through these poems with your <em>hot uhallowed lust for beauty</em>. Happy haunting.</p>