Mark McLaughlin
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Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster
Mark McLaughlin, Michael McCarty
When it comes to horror poetry, two heads are better than one!
Attack Of The Two-Headed Poetry Monster features more than 80 horror and dark fantasy poems by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin and Bram Stoker Award Finalist Michael McCarty. It even includes two long collaborative poems by the diabolical duo. The styles of the poems range from light-hearted to dead-serious from whimsical to Gothic to midnight-horrific. The collection includes an Introduction by Bram Stoker Award-winning poet Rain Graves, an Afterword by prominent poet, editor and artist Sandy DeLuca, and cover art and interior illustrations by Mark McLaughlin.
If these poems don’t make you laugh or scream, check your pulse…you’re probably dead!
Michael McCarty, Mark McLaughlin
As a child, young Texan Jeremy Carmichael fell from a Ferris wheel at a carnival. He landed on a beautiful young woman and his fall was broken. Unfortunately, so was the woman’s spine.
Years later, Jeremy is injured in a car accident while delivering pizzas. The accident opens the gates between the worlds of the living and the dead, awakening a malevolent supernatural presence—the spirit of cruel Frank Edmonson. Frank had been the policeman who’d arrived at the scene of the carnival accident, years earlier. The woman who’d died had been Frank’s lover.
Frank wants revenge on Jeremy and wishes to re-enter the world of the living by taking over the young man’s body. Jeremy finds himself visiting the realm of the dead in dreams and visions. But is that Frank’s doing, or is there another reason…? In his dreams, Jeremy is repeatedly drawn to the River of Time, which flows through the land of the dead.
Frank has a cunning master plan which involves a sleek, deadly muscle-car called Monster. Frank uses the car to gain control over Jeremy’s life. But what Frank doesn’t…
Phantasmapedia: An Alphabestiary of Little-known Demons, Entities, Mutants, & Pseudo-biological Aberations
Mark McLaughlin
What’s a Phantasmapedia?
Phantasmapedia is a chapbook collection of poems about 32 little-known creatures—demons, entities, mutants, and pseudo-biological aberrations. Even though you may not have heard of these beings, there is a good chance one or more of them could be influencing your life. Are you having difficulty losing weight? You could be the victim of Adipossums, or maybe Glucozoth, Lord of Candy. Having memory problems? Brown Creepers could be to blame. Is your computer acting strangely? Internet Witches may have sent a special virus your way. Are you hopelessly insane or terminally ill? Perhaps you’ve crossed paths with the Yellow-Tailed Satanus or the Oncoloscarabaeus. Phantasmapedia also reveals the ultimate destiny of life on Earth, as well as a variety of other arcane secrets.
Men Are From Hell, Woman Are From the Galaxy of Death
Mark McLaughlin
This new chapbook by Mark features poems dealing with love, vampires, evil killing machines, love, nightmares, robots, zombies and… love. Because love means never having to say you’re scary.
Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves, David Niall Wilson
The Gossamer Eye is a book of poetry, and some fiction, too, by a new breed of wordsmiths. Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson—the three authors represented in this collection—write in numerous speculative genres, with an emphasis on horror and dark fantasy. They give readings of their work at conventions and other literary venues, and are active in various national writers’ groups. Their fiction often appears in major anthologies, but they haven’t forgotten that poetry is an important part of their creative lives.
Their writings breathe new life into the world of dark verse. They prove that the poetry of the macabre can be much more than just the silken, sad rustling of purple curtains. They explore many new avenues of expression—with wit, humor, anger, and always, passion.
The stories in The Gossamer Eye range from very dark and macabre to humorous and quirky to absolutely bizarre. You’ll meet a cross dresser who impersonates Marilyn and his friend Ziggy, a Bowie impersonator; witness “The Fall of the House of Escher”; and be introduced to 13 of…
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