Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• ii • Table of Contents (The Covin's Hornbook & Other Poems) • essay by uncredited
• x • List of Illustrations (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) • essay by Frank Coffman
• xi • Preface (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) • essay by Donald Sidney-Fryer
• xii • Introduction (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) • essay by Frank Coffman
• 1 • Prelude • poem by Frank Coffman
• 3 • The Coven's Hornbook • poem by Frank Coffman
• 4 • A Meeting of the Covern • poem by Frank Coffman
• 6 • The Witches' Sabbats • poem by Frank Coffman
• 6 • The House on Witch Hill • poem by Frank Coffman
• 7 • Familiar • poem by Frank Coffman
• 7 • A Warlock's Curse • poem by Frank Coffman
• 8 • Heritage • poem by Frank Coffman
• 14 • Legacy • poem by Frank Coffman
• 14 • The Hanging Tree • poem by Frank Coffman
• 15 • The Witches' Rite at Beltane • poem by Frank Coffman
• 16 • A Desolate House • poem by Frank Coffman
• 16 • Solstice Sunset • poem by Frank Coffman
• 17 • Ragana • poem by Frank Coffman
• 19 • The Well of the Witch (Sonnet Sequence) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 23 • The Witch of the Woods • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 23 • Those Days in Salem Town • poem by Frank Coffman
• 24 • The Cabin Just Outside • poem by Frank Coffman
• 25 • Lamia • poem by Frank Coffman
• 26 • The Cursed Recipe • poem by Frank Coffman
• 27 • Witching Well • poem by Frank Coffman
• 27 • Convert • poem by Frank Coffman
• 28 • So They Say • poem by Frank Coffman
• 28 • Residual Murder • poem by Frank Coffman
• 31 • Ghostku • poem by Frank Coffman
• 32 • Legend: Archer Avenue, Chicago • poem by Frank Coffman
• 36 • Roommates • poem by Frank Coffman
• 36 • Poltergeist • poem by Frank Coffman
• 37 • Beware This House • poem by Frank Coffman
• 37 • The Tune on the Wind Harp • poem by Frank Coffman
• 38 • The Discovery • poem by Frank Coffman
• 39 • A Haven for the Homeless • poem by Frank Coffman
• 40 • La Llorona—"The Weeping Woman" • poem by Frank Coffman
• 41 • That Old House • poem by Frank Coffman
• 41 • Dance of the Damned • poem by Frank Coffman
• 42 • The Summoner • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 44 • Terror at Twilight • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 44 • A Little Knowledge • poem by Frank Coffman
• 45 • The Scroll of Thoth • poem by Frank Coffman
• 51 • Forbidden Words • poem by Frank Coffman
• 52 • Keyfinder • poem by Frank Coffman
• 52 • Forbidden Tome • poem by Frank Coffman
• 53 • The Lines • poem by Frank Coffman
• 54 • The Master's Lesson for the Apprentice Mage • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 54 • Wronged Sorceress • poem by Frank Coffman
• 55 • The Fateful Flower • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 56 • Vengeance • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 56 • Portals • poem by Frank Coffman
• 57 • Lycanthropos • poem by Frank Coffman
• 57 • The Condemned • poem by Frank Coffman
• 58 • Metamorphosis • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 59 • Beware the Night! • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 60 • Rougarou • poem by Frank Coffman
• 60 • The Hunt • poem by Frank Coffman
• 61 • Lycanthrope Moon • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 62 • Unheeded Warning • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 63 • Accursed • poem by Frank Coffman
• 63 • Aftertaste • poem by Frank Coffman
• 64 • The Last Eclogue • poem by Frank Coffman
• 65 • Transformation • poem by Frank Coffman
• 66 • A Page from a Werewolf's Diary • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 67 • Hunter/Hunted • poem by Frank Coffman
• 67 • After Sunlight Fails • poem by Frank Coffman
• 68 • They • poem by Frank Coffman
• 68 • NecronomiCon • poem by Frank Coffman
• 69 • In Lost Carcosa • poem by Frank Coffman
• 70 • A Traveler to the City • (2016) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 71 • Asylum • poem by Frank Coffman
• 72 • The Mission • poem by Frank Coffman
• 73 • Desolated Realm • poem by Frank Coffman
• 74 • Behind the Mask • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 75 • Neohyte's Lesson • poem by Frank Coffman
• 76 • "But Thinking Makes It So" • poem by Frank Coffman
• 76 • Foiled Conjuring • poem by Frank Coffman
• 77 • It is Halloween • poem by Frank Coffman
• 77 • Rodine for Halloween • poem by Frank Coffman
• 78 • Samhain Redivivus • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 78 • Sonnetku for Halloween • poem by Frank Coffman
• 79 • Sin-Eating Jack: A Ballad of Halloween Horror • poem by Frank Coffman
• 82 • The Offering • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 83 • Samhain Night • poem by Frank Coffman
• 83 • The Harvest • poem by Frank Coffman
• 84 • Beneath the Crescent Moon • poem by Frank Coffman
• 85 • The Calling • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 86 • The Gathering • poem by Frank Coffman
• 87 • Ennui • poem by Frank Coffman
• 88 • Dracul's Demesne: A Sonnet Sequence • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 91 • The Waking • poem by Frank Coffman
• 92 • Mysterious Stranger • poem by Frank Coffman
• 92 • Transylvanian Legend • poem by Frank Coffman
• 93 • Castle of Dread • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 94 • Rawhead/Bloody Bones • poem by Frank Coffman
• 96 • Song of the Ghouls • poem by Frank Coffman
• 97 • Shaytan • poem by Frank Coffman
• 97 • The Beast of Bodmin Moor • poem by Frank Coffman
• 97 • A Casualty of the Somme • poem by Frank Coffman
• 99 • The Thing in the Forest • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 100 • Necrovore • poem by Frank Coffman
• 101 • The Forest of Horror • (2016) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 102 • The Stalking Horror • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 105 • Black Shuck: A Legend of East Anglia • poem by Frank Coffman
• 105 • The Hag of the Mists • poem by Frank Coffman
• 106 • Goat-Sucker • poem by Frank Coffman
• 106 • Dire Wolves • poem by Frank Coffman
• 107 • The Wight of the West Barrow • poem by Frank Coffman
• 107 • The Wood • poem by Frank Coffman
• 108 • A Soldier's Story • poem by Frank Coffman
• 109 • Spawn of Iblis • poem by Frank Coffman
• 109 • Night of the Skinwalker • poem by Frank Coffman
• 110 • The Corner of the Eye • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 111 • Forms of Fear • poem by Frank Coffman
• 111 • Praeternaturalis • poem by Frank Coffman
• 112 • Revelation • poem by Frank Coffman
• 112 • Shadow Folk • poem by Frank Coffman
• 113 • Et Carpe Noctum • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 113 • Her Secret • poem by Frank Coffman
• 114 • Rose Maddow • poem by Frank Coffman
• 116 • Hilltop House • poem by Frank Coffman
• 116 • The Devil's Dinner Party • poem by Frank Coffman
• 117 • Repeated Ritual • poem by Frank Coffman
• 119 • The Guide • poem by Frank Coffman
• 119 • Wrong Turn • poem by Frank Coffman
• 120 • Ring of Horror • poem by Frank Coffman
• 120 • The Secrets • poem by Frank Coffman
• 121 • Jack • poem by Frank Coffman
• 121 • FINIS • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 122 • Blood Bath Aftermath: Bathory's Fate • poem by Frank Coffman
• 123 • The Lake's Secret • poem by Frank Coffman
• 124 • Aokigahara • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 126 • Greed's Reward • poem by Frank Coffman
• 126 • Saucy Jack • poem by Frank Coffman
• 127 • The Realms of Gold • poem by Frank Coffman
• 127 • A Warning to the Curious • poem by Frank Coffman
• 128 • Lost Atlantis • poem by Frank Coffman
• 129 • Portent of Doom • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 130 • Thessalonike • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 131 • The Crossing • poem by Frank Coffman
• 131 • Unwelcome Guest • poem by Frank Coffman
• 132 • Undine • poem by Frank Coffman
• 133 • Rolf's Ride • poem by Frank Coffman
• 137 • The Gift • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 138 • A Challenge Met • poem by Frank Coffman
• 138 • Cambion • poem by Frank Coffman
• 139 • The Golden Knight and the Dragon • poem by Frank Coffman
• 139 • Fantasy's Greatest Gift • poem by Frank Coffman
• 140 • The Lost Lover's Message • poem by Frank Coffman
• 141 • Cwn Annwn • poem by Frank Coffman (variant of Cwn Annwn [The Hounds of Annwn] 2017)
• 142 • Gwyn Met the Devil • poem by Frank Coffman
• 143 • The Korrigans • poem by Frank Coffman
• 143 • The Tylwyth Teg • poem by Frank Coffman
• 144 • Stoned Troll • poem by Frank Coffman
• 145 • Sea Wife • poem by Frank Coffman
• 146 • Grettir's Battle with Glam • poem by Frank Coffman
• 147 • A Day May Come • poem by Frank Coffman
• 147 • A Dangerous Quest • poem by Frank Coffman
• 148 • Weird Tales, The First Run • poem by Frank Coffman (variant of Weird Tales, the First Run: An Homage 2018)
• 148 • Nosferatu • poem by Frank Coffman
• 149 • The Awakening (Karloff in the Mummy) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 149 • Bierce's "The Damned Thing" • poem by Frank Coffman
• 150 • Illinois poet, Carl drew pictures, The • poem by Frank Coffman
• 151 • Mary Shelley at the Cinema • poem by Frank Coffman
• 151 • Sorrow Singer (for Frederick Goddard Tuckerman) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 152 • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul • poem by Frank Coffman (variant of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul (Pickman Retold) 2018)
• 153 • The Hound • poem by Frank Coffman
• 154 • Sijo Sequence (for Frederick J. Mayer) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 155 • POdE (an Ode to Poe) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 156 • The Carnacki Formula (for Wm. Hope Hodgson) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 157 • At the Gravesite • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 158 • The Magic Portal (for Arthur Conan Doyle) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 159 • Poet of Lost Atlantis (for Donald Sydney-Fryer) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 159 • The Repetitive Client (for Arthur Conan Doyle) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 160 • The Bards (for Robert E. Howard) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 161 • Tasty Bugs • poem by Frank Coffman
• 161 • Spectral Realms: An Hommage • poem by Frank Coffman (variant of Spectral Realms: An Homage 2018)
• 162 • Decadence of Jade (for Park Barnitz) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 163 • The Last Transport • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 166 • Why Time Travel Will Be a Long Way Off • poem by Frank Coffman
• 166 • First Planting • poem by Frank Coffman
• 167 • Neighbor • poem by Frank Coffman
• 167 • Daydream • (2018) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 168 • Five Scifaiku • poem by Frank Coffman
• 168 • Adventure's Call • poem by Frank Coffman
• 169 • Skiffy • poem by Frank Coffman
• 170 • The Choice • poem by Frank Coffman
• 170 • Occult Detectiv(E) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 171 • The Occult Detective • poem by Frank Coffman
• 172 • Shamus • poem by Frank Coffman
• 174 • Dr. Anaxagoras Venn Postulates on Occult Case • poem by Frank Coffman
• 175 • The Ways Poems Come to Me (Sequence of Poems) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 182 • The Sonneteers • poem by Frank Coffman
• 183 • Restrictions • poem by Frank Coffman
• 183 • Two Techniques for Poetic Revision • poem by Frank Coffman
• 184 • The Vine, The Wine, The Design • poem by Frank Coffman
• 185 • RE-Vision • poem by Frank Coffman
• 186 • Chariot of the Muse: On Writing Aerostics • poem by Frank Coffman
• 186 • On the Horrific Sonnet • poem by Frank Coffman
• 187 • Horror Poetics: Strength in Numbers • poem by Frank Coffman
• 189 • The Gist Is Found by Listing • poem by Frank Coffman
• 189 • The Quarrel • poem by Frank Coffman
• 190 • Worn Paths Are Best Followed • poem by Frank Coffman
• 190 • Experimentation • poem by Frank Coffman
• 191 • The Sci-Fi Sonnet • poem by Frank Coffman
• 191 • Singing in Chains • poem by Frank Coffman
• 192 • A Call to Weird Poets • poem by Frank Coffman
• 192 • A Little Square of Ink • poem by Frank Coffman
• 193 • The Weird Poem: Some Thoughts • poem by Frank Coffman
• 193 • Can Spring Be Far? • poem by Frank Coffman
• 194 • Ballade for the Would-Be Weird Poets • poem by Frank Coffman
• 195 • The Communicant • poem by Frank Coffman
• 196 • Poets of the Dark • poem by Frank Coffman
• 198 • Hark! The New Poets • poem by Frank Coffman
• 199 • "Four Score and Seven" • poem by Frank Coffman
• 199 • Formal Freedom • poem by Frank Coffman
• 200 • Content with Form [pun intended] • poem by Frank Coffman
• 200 • Though Some Will Say • poem by Frank Coffman
• 201 • De Forma Virtutum • poem by Frank Coffman
• 203 • The Charge of the Foot Brigade • poem by Frank Coffman
• 204 • The Poet's Challenge • poem by Frank Coffman
• 204 • Delay • poem by Frank Coffman
• 205 • Ars Timore (A Wreath of Sonnets) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 212 • Beyond the First Attempt • poem by Frank Coffman
• 213 • The Guardian of the Garden • poem by Frank Coffman
• 214 • Under the Skull of Ymir • poem by Frank Coffman
• 214 • A Trisengraf • poem by Frank Coffman
• 215 • The Flame and the Shadow • (2017) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 215 • These Leaves Falling • poem by Frank Coffman
• 216 • The Race • poem by Frank Coffman
• 216 • The Game • poem by Frank Coffman
• 217 • Winter Again • poem by Frank Coffman
• 218 • The Absinthe Drinker • poem by Frank Coffman
• 218 • Moonshadows • poem by Frank Coffman
• 219 • I Like Things Old • poem by Frank Coffman
• 219 • Göbekli Tepi • poem by Frank Coffman
• 220 • Meta-poesis • poem by Frank Coffman
• 220 • A Poem Upon a Page • poem by Frank Coffman
• 221 • In Illinois • poem by Frank Coffman
• 222 • The Great Eisteddfod • poem by Frank Coffman
• 223 • Renderings of Some Quantrains from Khayyam's Rubaiyat • poem by Frank Coffman
• 225 • Credo • poem by Frank Coffman
• 226 • Glossary of Forms • essay by Frank Coffman
• 245 • Alphabetical Index of Titles • essay by uncredited