Trailer for a wide-ranging collection in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe. It has paranoid visions of obscure menace, meditations on art, language, and the contradictions of American dreams, sly satires, and journeys into Gothic madness. This book also includes a short play about a serial killer who might be a goddess, and introduces two new poem-writing techniques.

1. A new collection inspired by
Edgar Allan Poe
and others
Horror, fantasy, science
fiction, weird fiction,
satire….
Now available on Smashwords,
Apple iBookstore, Nook, and
Amazon Kindle, for 99 cents

2. A FEW LINES FROM…
The Masque of
Amontillado
…All the dead Montresors stacked out
there, great-uncles, great-great-aunts,
Generations back and back, calling to me
In a susurrus of skulls,
Soon you will be like us,
Faceless like us,
Come whisper with us…

3. The Citadel
Where was I?
For what?
Oh, in one of the Badlands.
It’s not as bad as some,
believe me!
You were being punished
there.
That is privileged
information, kept in the
Inner Archive.

4. Shed
On a quiet street where
Maples lean over velvety
Chemical-doused lawns,
And windows stare blank as
blocks of ice
There stands a stout metal shed
With a stout lock on its door….

5. Mask Behind the Face:
A Play in One Act
I am the snow that scalds
your face.
I am the unforgiving sea.
My paths are webs you cannot
trace,
But late or soon, you’ll come
to me.

6. Ophelia
…Water replaced breath.
But later, with the chorus
of ghosts, she watched
From a play outside a play,
Wanting to shout “I’m
still here” as they fought
over her body….

7. Gynoid
….two minutes later
StelleTech Artificers held a press
conference
The spokesbot expressed shock at the
behavior of Seleste#14
Extended non-legally-binding
sympathy to the victims’ families….

8. Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam, Undimmed
by Human Tears
If you’re short on alabaster, plaster can make a fine substitute…..

9. The Censor
Is sleek and silver with cold
crystal eyes
As deep as vanishing points….
His voice purrs from metal
depths….

10. Crossword Poems
Fish Weave Deserts
Dimly obliquely tracing
Winding through cities

11. Picture credits
• Slide 1: Juan Gris, Harlequin with a Guitar (detail, with colors inverted), 1917 [public domain], via
Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJuan_Gris_-
_Harlequin_with_a_Guitar.jpg
• Slide 2: Harry Clarke [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACaskofAmontillado-Clarke.jpg
• Slide 3: Francisco Coello [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APamplona_1845.jpg
• Slide 4: "Traditional Metal Shed" by TheFearow - Own work. Licensed under Public domain via
Wikimedia Commons -
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_Metal_Shed.JPG
• Slide 5: By Wolfgang Sauber (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-
3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARMW_-_Paradehelm_3.jpg

12. • Slide 6: Odilon Redon [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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• Slide 7: By Till Krech from Berlin, Germany (angry dummy Uploaded by perumalism) [CC-BY-2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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• Slide 8: "Brooklyn Museum - Chicago World's Fair - Thomas Moran - overall" by Thomas Moran -
Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 31.194_cropped_SL1.jpg.
Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -
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_Thomas_Moran_-_overall.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Chicago_World%27s_Fair_-
_Thomas_Moran_-_overall.jpg
• Slide 9: By Patafisik & Elena Tartaglione (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAutoma_Manzetti_1840_dettaglio.JPG
• Slide 10: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CrosswordUK.svg
• Images modified by Timothy J. Tilbe