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Halloween Poetry Reading

Last updated 28 October 2007

Watching You, 
by Sue Burke
"Watching You," Copyright © 2007,
by Sue Burke, photographer. Detail of Greek sculpture, Vatican Museums, Rome.




Skulls, 
by Karen A. Romanko
"Skulls," Copyright © 2007,
by Karen A. Romanko.



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Spirits of the Dead, by Edgar Allen Poe.
Recorded by Stephen W. Wilson. (4MB)





Lost, by Liz Bennefeld
"Lost," Copyright © 2007, by Liz Bennefeld.



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The Conqueror Worm, by Edgar Allen Poe.
Recorded by Stephen W. Wilson. (3MB)




Relic of Love, by Sue Burke
"Relic of Love," Copyright © 2007, by Sue Burke, photographer. The skull of St. Valentine on display as a holy relic at Santa Maria in Cosmedin Church, Rome.



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All Hallows Eve, by Liz Bennefeld
"All Hallows Eve," Copyright © 2007, by Liz Bennefeld.





Ostentatiously Dead, Sue Burke, photographer
"Ostentatiously Dead," Copyright © 2007, by Sue Burke, photographer. Detail from the tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.





Nightfall, 
by Liz Bennefeld
"Nightfall," Copyright © 2007,
by Liz Bennefeld, photographer.








 

"Billy Never Noticed"
by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

WAV File (900KB)

"Billy Never Noticed" was published in Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices, a chapbook by David C. Kopaska-Merkel.


"They Threw Their Daughters
Into the Sea"
by Karen A. Romanko

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"They Threw Their Daughters into the Sea," by Karen A. Romanko, first appeared in Goblin Fruit, Spring 2007.


"The Sonnet from Hell"
by Sue Burke

WAV File (1MB)

Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2006. More about the author at http://www.sue.burke.name.


"At Allantide"
by Elizabeth Bennefeld

WAV File (1.26MB)

"At Allantide" was written for the 2007 SFPA Online Halloween Poetry Reading page. Learn more about Elizabeth at http://lizbennefeld.net.


"Vampire Prostitute"
by David Lee Summers

MP3 File (347KB)

"Vampire Prostitute" was first published in SpinDrifter Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 4, Winter 2004/5. More about the author at http://www.davidleesummers.com.


"finale"
by Mike Allen

MP3 File (1.5MB)

First appeared in Strange Wisdoms of the Dead, Wildside Press, 2006. More about Mike Allen at his home page: Descent into Light.


"Our Lady of Darkness"
by C. A. Gardner

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"Our Lady of Darkness" by C. A. Gardner was first published in Wicked Hollow, Issue 2, April 2002.



"A Page Torn from Jonathan Harker's Journal"
by John S. Tumlin

MP3 File (2MB)

"A Page Torn from Jonathan Harker's Journal" first appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of Star*Line (Vol. 30, No. 4).


"No Trespassing"
by J. C. Runolfson

MP3 File (526KB)

J. C. Runolfson's "No Trespassing" appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of Goblin Fruit, for which the audio recording was also made. First publication was on Runolfson's Web site in 2006.


"The Nightmare Avatar's Nightmare"
read by Christina Sng

MP3 File (1.5MB)

"The Nightmare Avatar's Nightmare," written by Mike Allen and Christina Sng, was published in H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Issue 4, Spring-Summer 2007.


"The Shade"
by Deborah P Kolodji

WAV File (775KB)

Deborah P Kolodji's "The Shade" was previously published in Sol Magazine in 2003.

 

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