Hiding from the Reaper and Other Horror Poems

by Michael Potts

Overview

Horror poems should invade the ordinariness of the day and allow the reader to sense the chill of the uncanny. They should form dream images that haunt during sleep. This broad collection of horror poetry ranges in subject matter from death to ghosts, from dark corners of the human psyche and human behavior to Lovecraftian monsters. They will haunt and they will cling to the mind like an ancient beast's tentacles. Be careful looking over your shoulder if you feel fingers touch it--you may find that the fingers are fleshless but the claws sharp.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044534636
Publisher:	Michael Potts
Publication date:	05/11/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	235 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michael Potts is the author of UNPARDONABLE SIN, a theological horror novel with a Lovecraftean twist, published by WordCrafts Press in 2014. WordCrafts Press also published END OF SUMMER, a Southern Fiction novel about a boy struggling with loss and faith, in 2011. Potts's poetry chapbook, FROM FIELD TO THICKET, won the 2006 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award of the North Carolina Writers' Network. His creative nonfiction essay, "Haunted," won the 2006 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, also from the NC Writers' Network. His poems have been published in a number of literary journals. He is a 2007 graduate of MTSU's The Writer's Loft and a 2007 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. A native of Smyrna, Tennessee, he currently serves as Professor of Philosophy, Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina. He has married and has three cats: Frodo, Pippin, and Rosie.