The Voice of the Burning House: Poems

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...

JOHN SHIRLEY-the Bram Stoker Award-winning writer
the noted novelist, author of Demons and Cellars and Lovecraft Alive and City Come A-Walkin' and Stormland and the A Song Called Youth trilogy and Black Butterflies
the songwriter
the lyricist for the Blue yster Cult... and frequent contributor to the weird poetry journal Spectral Realms-presents his first book of poems.

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.

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.