Collected Poems (Richard L. Tierney)

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Collected Poems

Cover of Collected Poems
Author Richard L. Tierney
Illustrator Jason Van Hollander
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) poetry
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date 1981
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages ix, 82 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-87054-092-0

Collected Poems is a collection of poems by Richard L. Tierney. It was released in 1981 by Arkham House in an edition of 1,030 copies. The book is illustrated by Jason Van Hollander. The poems had previously appeared in The Arkham Collector, Whispers, Nyctalops, Macabre and other magazines.

[edit] Contents

Collected Poems contains the following poems:

  1. "A Man in the Crowd"
  2. "The Altar"
  3. "Sabbat"
  4. "In Halls of Fantasy"
  5. "To Gorice XII, King in Carcë"
  6. "Night Visitant"
  7. "The Nereid"
  8. "The Dreadful City"
  9. "The Madness of the Oracle"
  10. "The Moon of Endless Night"
  11. "Hate"
  12. "The Scrolls"
  13. "Jack the Ripper"
  14. "Moubata"
  15. "The Garret-Room"
  16. "In Evil Dreams"
  17. "The Hills"
  18. "The Volcano"
  19. "Demon-Star"
  20. "The Pinnacles"
  21. "Zarria"
  22. "The Shadow"
  23. "Star-Dreams"
  24. "The Mountain"
  25. "The Sleeper"
  26. "The Pilgrimage"
  27. "The Vengeance of Earth"
  28. "The Evil House"
  29. "Homesickness"
  30. "A Vision of a Midsummer Night"
  31. "Fulfillment"
  32. "The Doom Prophet"
  33. "Found in a Storm-Destroyed Lighthouse"
  34. "Gods"
  35. "Tahuantin-Suyu"
  36. "Sonnet to a Box Elder Bug"
  37. "The Legend/ Yahweh"
  38. "Mountains of Madness"
  39. "Carcosa"
  40. "The Wendigo"
  41. "To Great Cthulhu"
  42. "Carpathian Dream"
  43. "The Swamp Dweller"
  44. "To Mount Sinai"
  45. "Dream/ Escape"
  46. "Beyond the Maze"
  47. "Zora Rach Nam Psarrion"
  48. "The Image"
  49. "The Great City"
  50. "Optimism"
  51. "The Jewels"
  52. "Giantess"
  53. "The Cat"
  54. "The Balcony"
  55. "To a Girl Who is Too Gay"
  56. "Minas Morgul"
  57. "Mordor"
  58. "Hope"
  59. "Illusion"
  60. "A Glimpse of Hell"
  61. "Contempt"
  62. "The Serpent-Men"
  63. "Enchantress"
  64. "Prayer to Zathog"
  65. "To the Hydrogen Bomb"

[edit] References

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