The Voice of the Burning House

<p>IN THE GRAND TRADITION of Clark Ashton Smith; of H. P. Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth of Edgar Allan Poe and George Sterling and other masters of Weird Poetry...</p><p><br></p><p>JOHN SHIRLEY-the Bram Stoker Award-winning writer; the noted novelist author of <em>Demons</em> and <em>Cellars</em> and <em>Lovecraft Alive</em> and <em>City Come A-Walkin'</em> and <em>Stormland</em> and the <em>A Song Called Youth</em> trilogy and <em>Black Butterflies</em>; the songwriter; the lyricist for the Blue Öyster Cult... and frequent contributor to the weird poetry journal <em>Spectral Realms</em>-presents his first book of poems.</p><p><br></p><p>His themes range widely: from irony-infused cautionary tales to the dangers of romance in a vein of nightmare; to the diabolic glimpsed from the corners of the eye; to the lyricism of streetcorners; to the magic energy of inescapable regret; to cosmic horror secret sovereigns and apocalypse... leavened by subtle glimpses of hope.</p><p><br></p><p>This volume is lavishly illustrated by noted weird artist Dan Sauer whose surreal photomontage work illuminates the savage beauty and dark epiphanies of Shirley's verse.</p>