Lester Smith

After inventing a trans-dimensional vessel, a Traveler embarks on an epic journey to Hell and back, then sets his sights upon attaining Heaven. Along the way he stumbles through a number of other mythologies and is changed beyond his imagining-while inadvertently opening a route for corporate expansion. But in the end everything works out according to plan. Except the Traveler never had a plan. The Pastime Machine is a Byronic mashup of Dante's Inferno and Wells' The Time Machine, with bits of the Odyssey, The Poetic Edda, Egyptian funerary text, and of course the Bible, plus a nod toward "A Midsummer Night's Dream." It's NSFW from page one, lampoons everybody including its author, and then kills them off ignominiously in text. It's got a nude giant. And it's written entirely in sonnets.

A Byronic Mashup of Dante and Wells - in 101 Sonnets

The Pastime Machine

Kenneth Hite

Welcome to Popcorn Press's fifth annual collection of horror poetry and short fiction. This year, as last, is devoted to H. P. Lovecraft's vision of cosmic madness, the star of which is the titanic, undying Cthulhu, who lies buried in cyclopean ruins beneath the sea, waiting for the stars to align and free him and his fellow Great Old Ones, while he works his machinations telepathically through a network of cultists. Inside are works by Elaine Cunningham, James Dorr, Karl Elder, Matt Forbeck, Kenneth Hite, Scott R. Jones, Geoffrey A. Landis, Rick Powell, Stephen D. Sullivan, Deborah Walker, and a host of others.

And More Mythos Madness

Cthulhu Haiku II

Elizabeth Barrette

Joyce Becker Lee

Jeannie Bergmann

Come spend the night with twice thirteen vampyr poets. Let their verses tickle your ribs, penetrate your heart, and even leave you bleeding. All they ask in return is a little immortality. Vampyr Verse contains 79 poems, plus a short story, all devoted to that mysterious figure-the vampyr! These selections run the gamut from pensive haiku to whimsical limericks to deadly serious free verse, and everything between. At 86 pages, the book makes an excellent gift for anyone aged 13 or older.

Vampyr Verse

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Deborah P. Kolodji

Mike Kriesel

Peter Payack

Halloween Haiku Selected and Edited by Lester Smith grave exhalations of seventeen syllables sure to make you gasp Come celebrate All Hallows Eve in Popcorn Press's third annual anthology of horror poetry. Come trick-or-treating with two dozen celebrated poets, in ninety-five haiku and related poems, plus a bonus monster card game! Come spend the night in a haunted house of verse dedicated to the Halloween holiday. We dare you!

Halloween Haiku

Shane Lacy Hensley

Deadlands: The Weird West, Pinnacle's award-winning game of supernatural horror in the Old West continues to roll along. In 2000, new products allow players to take on the role of operatives for the Agency, wrestle with the curses of lycanthropy and vampirism, and learn the secrets of the latest developments in the New Science. The dead arise in this macabre sourcebook featuring new powers for those who have returned from the grave, as well as new rules for creating undead characters from scratch.

Lester Smith

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