Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Voices From The Dark by Gary William Crawford ISBN 13: 9781888993752. Poems of Madness and the stars, from this world to others millions of miles away. A sense of profound loss mingled with horror. A Place beyond death that is almost insane in its realism. Visions of cities and planets of pure evil. The loneliness of the outcast and the artist of dreams - Poems that haunt you long after you've closed the book. "I've often admired Crawford's unique style, his obsession with dreams vs. reality, sanity vs. insanity. ("I pick at the scab/of my madness/until it bleeds again.") In this collection, you will know phantom worlds, cities and waking nightmares by the scholar of phantoms himself. To borrow from his unsettling lines, these poems will become the hands that reach up from under the bed to grasp your mind as you sleep." - Marge Simon, 2008 Bram Stoker winner Vectors: A Week in the Death of A Planet. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. In addition to his poetry, Gary William Crawford is the author of two collections of short stories, Gothic Fevers and Mysteries of Von Domarus. He has been the editor of the scholarly journal Gothic, the poetry magazine Night Songs, and now the online scholarly journal Le Fanu Studies. He is also a scholar of Gothic literature. In addition to essays and reviews in various books and journals, he is the author of Ramsey Campbell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography, and Robert Aickman: An Introduction. Gary William Crawford. Gary William Crawford. Courtesy The Horrorzine . Gary William Crawford (born January 1, 1953) [1] is an American poet, fiction writer, and small press publisher. Contents. Life [ edit | edit source ] Crawford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [1] He is the founder and editor of Gothic Press, [2] which since 1979 has published books and periodicals in the field of Gothic literature. From 1979 to 1987, Crawford produced 6 issues of the journal Gothic , which features articles on Gothic fiction from 1764 to 1986. Later, the press published the horror poetry magazine Night Songs . In recent years, the press has published The Gothic Chapbook Series, which features pamphlets of fiction, poetry and scholarship. He has numerous poems, stories, and articles in the small press. He has an essay and bibliography on modern horror fiction in Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide . Crawford has recently begun the online journal, Le Fanu Studies , about ghost and mystery story writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and is compiling Internet databases on Le Fanu, Fritz Leiber, Arthur Machen, Ramsey Campbell, Walter de la Mare and Robert Aickman. His M.A. thesis, "Sheridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly: Ironic Distance and the Supernatural," Mississippi State University, 1977, is available from Crawford's Gothic Press. He has also written an essay about Fritz Leiber for a book published by McFarland Publishers. His collection of poetry, The Phantom World , was published by Sam's Dot Publishing in 2008. Poems written in collaboration with Bruce Boston are in Boston's book Double Visions from Dark Regions Press. Now available from Dark Regions Press is his poetry collection Voices from the Dark. He edited with Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers the book Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu for publication by Hippocampus Press. He has contributed entries to The Encyclopedia of the Vampire. He is co-author with Bruce Boston of the poetry collection Notes from the Shadow City, published by Dark Regions Press in 2012. Swan River Press in Dublin, Ireland has published a condensed version of his Le Fanu bibliography in pamphlet format. He recently edited a book of essays on Robert Aickman from Gothic Press. For Scarecrow Press he is editing a book of essays on Ramsey Campbell. Also from Scarecrow Press he is writing a critical study of Robert Aickman. Crawford contributed several articles to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986). Recognition [ edit | edit source ] His poetry collections The Shadow City (2005) and The Phantom World (2008) were each nominated for a Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. Publications [ edit | edit source ] Poetry [ edit | edit source ] Poems of the Divided Self . Nashville, TN: Nashville House, 1992. In Shadow Lands . Nashville, TN: Nashville House, 1998. The Shadow City: Poems . Pawleys Island, SC: Naked Snake Press, 2005. The Phantom World: Poems . Cedar Rapids, IA: Sam's Dot, 2008. Voices from the Dark: Selected poems, 1979-2009 . Colusa, CA: Dark Regions Press, 2009. with Bruce Boston Notes from the Shadow City (with Bruce Boston). Colusa, CA: Dark Regions Press, 2012. Short fiction [ edit | edit source ] Gothic Fevers . Nashville, TN: Nashville House, 2000. Mysteries of Von Domarus, and other stories . Baton Rouge, LA: Gothic Press, 2006. Non-fiction [ edit | edit source ] "The Modern Masters, 1920-1980" in Horror Literature: A core collection and reference guide (edited by Marshall B. Tymm). New York: R.R. Bowker, 1981. The 1980 Bibliography of Gothic Studies . Baton Rouge, LA: Gothic Press, 1983. Ramsey Campbell . Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1988. J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A bio-bibliography . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Robert Aickman: An introduction . Baton Rouge, LA: Gothic Press, 2003. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: A concise bibliography (with Brian J. Showers). Dublin: Swan River Press, 2011. Edited [ edit | edit source ] Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu (edited with Jim Rockhill & Brian J. Showers). 2011. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2011. Insufficient Answers: Essays on Robert Aickman . Baton Rouge, LA: Gothic Press, 2012. Ramsey Campbell : Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror . Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2014. Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat . [3] Wormwoodiana. This blog is devoted to fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature. It was begun by Douglas A. Anderson and Mark Valentine, and joined by friends including James Doig and Jim Rockhill, to present relevant news and information. Monday, July 13, 2020. RIP Gary William Crawford (1953-2020) Critic, poet, fiction writer, and small press publisher Gary William Crawford passed away in his native Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 9th, at the age of 67, after a long illness. Gary published some six booklets of poetry, including Poems of the Divided Self (1992); In Shadow Lands (1998); The Shadow City (2005); The Phantom World (2008); Voices from the Dark : Selected Poems 1979-2009 (2009); and, in collaboration with Bruce Boston, Notes from the Shadow City (2012). He also published two booklets of his own short fiction, Gothic Fevers (2000) and Mysteries of Von Domarus, and Other Stories (2006). He was probably best known as a critic and publisher. He founded Gothic Press in 1979, and edited six issues of the magazine Gothic (1979- 1987), which featured criticism as well as fiction and poetry. (Galad Elflandsson's notable story "The Exile" first appeared in issue 2 in 1979.) A listing of the contents of the six issues can be found here. Another magazine, Supernatural Poetry , began in 1987, but apparently lasted only for one issue. From 1992 through 1997 he published fourteen issues of Night Songs , another dark poetry magazine. Of his nonfiction, his work centered in particular on three authors, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Aickman, and Ramsey Campbell. Other booklets of especial interest published by Gothic Press include poetry collections by Bruce Boston, Conditions of Sentient Life (1996) and Cold Tomorrows (1998); Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner (2007), edited by Benjamin Szumskyj; and (apparently the final Gothic Press chapbook) Unburying the Past: The Hermeneutics of Truth in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Novels (2015), by Claudio Di Vaio. After Gary's increasing health problems, the Le Fanu and Aickman online databases and journals went offline sometime in 2016 or 2017. Some materials can still be found via the Wayback Machine, e.g. for Le Fanu here, or for Aickman here. He also worked on a larger critical book on Aickman but this was never completed. He also wrote articles on Walter de la Mare, Fritz Leiber, and Stephen King, and contributed to various reference books, like Jack Sullivan's Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986) and Marshall B. Tymn's Horror Literature (1981). 6 comments: How sad. He left behind some great work, much of which needs to be better collected. -Jeff Matthews. Sad news. As a correspondent and contributor to "Gothic" and "Le Fanu Studies", can I just add that Gary published my short story "The Fisherman" as a chapbook from Gothic Press in 2007. Cover art was by Marge Simon. Ah yes, The Fisherman by David Sutton (to add your name to the record). I haven't seen that one myself. I just purchased both of Gary's fiction collections. I so enjoy his nonfiction writing that I couldn't resist. RIP -Jeff Matthews. Here's my review of Crawford's short fiction collection GOTHIC FEVERS. I found the two longest stories very effective and well worth the price of admission: Gary William Crawford and Bruce Boston ‘Notes from the Shadow City’ Review. Modern poetry is a very challenging animal. In the post-modernist wake, form, style, and function have been tossed to the wind in favor of a less structured approach. At times this can feel a bit like anarchy as I wade through it. Modern genre poetry is even more difficult as it fuses the elements of genre onto this chaotic new world. When Notes from the Shadow City came across my desk, I paused. A poetry collection from two different poets telling a story… are you confused yet? But as I read, the light of understanding went on.