This volume contains all the known poetry by American author Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994). It includes the full contents of previous Tsathoggua Press titles The Darkling Tide and The Eye Above the Mantel. The editor of the collection is USA-born Perry M. Grayson, who is a dual citizen of Australia and the USA. It also contains some early short story vignettes and several items by FBL’s friend and colleague H. P. Lovecraft.
Table of Content
Introduction: Frank Belknap Long, Poet & Pauper by Perry M. Grayson
A Note on the Texts by Perry M. Grayson
Preface to A Man from Genoa by Samuel Loveman
A Knight of La Mancha
The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville
A Man from Genoa
Manhattan Skyline
Come, Let Us Make
The Magi
Walt Whitman
An Old Tale Retold
Prediction
The Prophet
A Time Will Come
When We Have Seen
In Antique Mood
A Sonnet for Seamen
In Hospital
Florence
Two Stanzas for Master François Villon
The Rebel
In the Garden of Eros (Theocritus)
In Mayan Splendor
The White People
An Old Wife Speaketh It
Stallions of the Moon
Advice
The Goblin Tower
The Inland Sea
On Icy Kinarth
Great Ashtoreth
When Chaugnar Wakes
Night-Trees
The Horror on Dagoth Wold
The Abominable Snow Men
Exotic Quest
Pirate-Men
Subway
Sonnet
The Hashish Eater
Ballad of Mary Magdalene
Ballad of Saint Anthony
West Indies
Martial: The Vacationist
From the Catullian Fount
Introduction to The Darkling Tide by Donald Sidney-Fryer
The Migration of Birds
At the Home of Poe
Flowers of Iniquity
Ingenue
Felis
The Rebel (1924 Version)
O Is There Aught in Wine and Ships?
Did You Write Lovecraft?
To Frank Belknap Long on His Birthday by H.P. Lovecraft
The Beautiful City
Futility
Adjuration
The New Adam
It Is Not Only the Dead
Innsmouth Revisited
Man Is the Sea’s Child
The Necronomicon – John Dee’s Translation
The Sea’s Cold Blueness
Medieval Palimpsest Fragment, AD 1165
To a Friend
Prophecy
Rufus (Catullus)
H.P. Lovecraft
A Matter of Perspective
Unhappiness
Sandaris
To Lewis Theobald Jun.
Lord Dunsany
Don Adolphe Returns
Ship Of Immortality – A Lament for Strange Tales
Venusian Folk Chant
Introduction to The Eye Above the Mantel – Sire of Reanimator by Perry M. Grayson
The Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jr. by H.P. Lovecraft
Dr. Whitlock’s Price
The Eye Above the Mantel
In the Tomb of Semenses
A Dangerous Experiment
An Epistle to Francis, Lord Belknap by H. P. Lovecraft
Four poems to Frank Belknap Long by H. P. Lovecraft
At The Haunt of a Cosmic Entity by Perry M. Grayson
The Goblin Tower Reviewed by Ernest A. Edkins
From ‘With the Editor’ by George Steele Seymour
From ‘The World of Books’ by Isaac Goldberg
Edwin Arlington Robinson – a letter to FBL
In Mayan Splendor Reviewed by Donald Sidney-Fryer
About the author
Perry M. Grayson was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 11, 1975. Perry’s family relocated to Southern California during his early years. He lived in the San Fernando Valley, capital of the pornography business and the setting of the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, until 2006. Perry now resides in Sydney, Australia, with his wife Tanya, an entertainment industry veteran, and two cats.Perry founded Tsathoggua Press in 1994 to publish pulp-era fantasy, horror and mystery fiction and non-fiction works relating to vintage authors. Since 1995, Perry has edited four volumes by his favorite author, Frank Belknap Long: Escape from Tomorrow (Necronomicon Press), The Eye Above the Mantel (Tsathoggua Press), The Darkling Tide (Tsathoggua Press) and the present collection. Many more FBL projects are in the works.Perry’s pro writing career began in 1994 as a journalist for electronic news service Silent Radio. Between 1997 and 2007 Perry served as copywriter and production coordinator for Sampson Advertising West, a busy porn graphic design and advertising agency.Perry’s other passion is music, and his pro music career took flight between 1997 and 2000 as guitarist and main songwriter in the heavy metal band Destiny’s End. With Destiny’s End, he recorded two albums on Metal Blade Records and embarked on a regional tour of Texas with labelmates Mercyful Fate in 1998. A full US tour with metal mavens Nevermore and Iced Earth followed in 1999. The US tour was followed by an appearance in front of tens of thousands of screaming metalheads at the illustrious Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany in August 1999-alongside a European tour with Sacred Steel, Wardog and Slough Feg.Next, Perry formed technical/progressive metal band Artisan, tackling both aggressive vocals and guitar from 2000-2003. While in Artisan, Perry supported internationally renowned metal artists such as Arch Enemy, Strapping Young Lad, Cathedral, Samael, Engine, Hate Eternal, Nile, Zero Hour, Onward and others.Since 2002, Perry has fronted the loud, raw vintage heavy rock power trio Falcon as guitarist/vocalist with friend and collaborator Greg Lindstrom, co-founder of cult U.S. metal legends Cirith Ungol. Towards the end of Perry’s tenure in Artisan (and simultaneous to Falcon) he played guitar for multinational metal project Isen Torr on the EP Mighty and Superior (2003). Branching out further, he played bass for American heavy doom rockers Pale Divine on a European tour in 2005 with Place of Skulls (led by Pentagram guitarist Victor Griffin).Aside from music, Perry’s pop-culture expertise extends far beyond to vintage TV, film and literature. He was a staff writer for Metal Maniacs, one of the world’s largest circulation heavy metal magazines, for over a decade.Since the mid-1990s, Perry has contributed fiction, non-fiction, interviews, reviews and poetry to such mags and sites as The Scream Factory, Crypt of Cthulhu, Necrofile, Other Dimensions, Snakepit, Fungi, Al Azif, Emptywords.org, Slow Ride, Hellridemusic.com, Snap Pop! and a host of others. He is often asked by hard rock and metal bands to pen liner notes and bios.A true-crime buff and lifelong devotee of American hardboiled literature, Perry often ventures out of the armchair, prowling deep into unsolved cold cases with abandon. His latest true-crime project, tentatively titled Dirty Deeds in L.A., focuses on weird crimes of the 1940s, including the Black Dahlia Murder case.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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