I’ve been busy this month curating the Halloween Poetry Page for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. This is an annual event where SFPA members submit audio of themselves reading Halloween/Samhain themed poetry and art if you have it. While this is a privilege for members, membership to the SFPA starts at just $15 a year and comes with a lot of benefits. Details on membership here.
Celebrate the season with some delicious, dark poetry here and if you haven’t submitted, consider joining us next year. We had 31 poets share their work. Sit back, dim your lights and listen in here.
- “How The Chupacabra Saved Halloween” by Juan Manuel Pérez
- “The Walls Opened Up” by Jean-Paul L. Garnier
- “Were-Books” by Wendy S. Delmater
- “The Witch Reconsiders Her Powers” by Beatriz Fernandez
- “Samhain” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
- “The Catty Hours” by Adele Gardner
- “The Banquet at the Center of the Maze” by Katherine Quevedo
- “Halloween Treats” by David Davies
- “Toward Samhain” by Ann K. Schwader (reading)
- “Hungry Ghosts” by Angela Yuriko Smith (art by Lee Murray)
- “462 First Avenue” by John C. Mannone
- “Whitestone Grove Hotel” by Robert Payne Cabeen
- “what they left behind” by Richard Magahiz
- “Crematorium of the Undead” by Sumiko Saulson
- “Cemetery Justice” by Miguel O. Mitchell
- “Forever Mates” by Lee Murray
- “The Blue Shroud,” by Meg Smith
- “The Rusk” by Louis B. Rosenberg
- “A Spell for the Living” by Brian Hugenbruch
- “The Prisoner” by FJ Bergmann
- “I Keep Going Back to the Weekend” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- “Monstrous Meetings” by Frank Coffman
- “Mary” by Kyla Lee Ward
- “Mountain Tic” by Cindy O’Quinn
- “Witching Hour in the Suburbs” by Clarabelle Miray Fields
- “Jacked” by e.f. schraeder
- “Abduction” by Leslie J. Anderson
- “Annie’s Alibi” by Jordan Hirsch
- “The Sweet Sleep of Roses” by Carina Bissett
- “The Nightbirds” by Blaise Langlois
- “Anubis” by Gary Every