{"product_id":"dancing-before-azathoth-macabre-and-fantastic-poetry-9781614984788","title":"Dancing Before Azathoth: Macabre and Fantastic Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than half a century, Darrell Schweitzer has been contributing poems of fantasy, horror, and the supernatural to countless venues. \u003cem\u003eDancing Before Azathoth\u003c\/em\u003e is a major retrospective of Schweitzer's verse over the past two or three decades, selecting the best poems from earlier collections-including \u003cem\u003eGroping Toward the Light\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) and \u003cem\u003eGhosts of Past and Future\u003c\/em\u003e (2008)-with uncollected poems that have appeared in \u003cem\u003eWeirdbook, Spectral Realms, Asimov's, Space and Time, \u003c\/em\u003e and other periodicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title poem is one of many that draw inspiration from the work of H. P. Lovecraft, emphasizing the cosmicism in that writer's work as well as exploring the human tragedies implicit in his tales (as in \"Lavinia Whateley\"). More conventional motifs-the witch, the werewolf, the ghost-are given new life in Schweitzer's contemplative poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA profound student of history, Schweitzer sees horror in the bountiful realms of classical myth, as in \"The Ghosts of Troy\" and \"Hadrian's Tomb.\" From an opposite perspective, Schweitzer looks to the future and finds abundant sources of terror there as well, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerrifying yet poignant, sinister yet sensitive, Darrell Schweitzer's poetry-whether in formal meter or free verse-will remain in the reader's memory as the work of a master craftsman who understands both the sources of terror and the depths of human emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hippocampus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197354570002,"sku":"9781614984788","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2455575-73e1-421f-8646-093d3a367f03.jpg?v=1776165360","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dancing-before-azathoth-macabre-and-fantastic-poetry-9781614984788","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}