Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poems

This is the authorized, expanded sixth edition of Brett Rutherford's landmark poetry collection, Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poetry. This extraordinary 416-page paperback, superseding all earlier editions, contains all the poet's supernatural poems, including 12 major new poems added since the last edition, and revisions to eight of the earlier works. Praised by Robert Bloch and Ray Bradbury, these may be the best supernatural poems of our time. The writing ranks from the seriously Gothic through the downright hilarious, including Gorgons, Golems, Egyptian mummies, Lovecraftian horrors, vampires, werewolves, possessed sex toys and stuffed animals, and the personal recollections of Fritz, the hunchback assistant of Dr. Frankenstein. All of Rutherford's Lovecraft-related poems are collected in this volume -- more than 100 pages of Lovecraftian items including all the poems written for the annual ceremonies at HPL's gravesite in Providence. Other major new items in this collection include the long narrative poem "Mrs. Friedman's Golem," and accounts of Pittsburgh's radioactive grave-walking specter, the most alarming bed-and-breakfast stay of all time, a secret mental ward full of Lovecraft fans, and a young girl's lessons in witchcraft in ancient Corinth. Since the first edition of this volume, a hand-bound production in 1985, this collection has grown like Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass so that each version has all the author's Gothic works "so far." This hardcover edition is the 307th publication of The Poet's Press, under its Grim Reaper Books imprint.