''Collected Poems: Nightmares and Visions'' is a collection of poems by
Richard L. Tierney
Richard Louis Tierney (August 7, 1936 – February 1, 2022) was an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft, probably best known for his heroic fantasy, including his series co-authored (with David C. Smith) of Red Sonja novels, fe ...
. It was released in
1981
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by
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...
in an edition of 1,030 copies. The book is illustrated by
Jason Van Hollander
Jason Van Hollander (born September 9, 1949) is an American illustrator, book designer and occasional author. His stories and collaborations with Darrell Schweitzer earned a World Fantasy Award nomination. Van Hollander's fiction and nonfiction hav ...
. The poems had previously appeared in such magazines as ''
The Arkham Collector
''The Arkham Collector'' was an American fantasy, horror fiction and poetry magazine first published in Summer 1967. The magazine, edited by August Derleth, was the second of two magazines published by Arkham House, the other being the ''Arkham S ...
'', ''
Whispers'', ''Nyctalops'', ''Macabre'', ''The Diversifier'', ''Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror'', ''Ambrosia'', ''Dark Messenger Reader'', ''Myrrdin'', ''Fantasy Crossroads'' and others.
Literary historian
Don Herron
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has stated that the collection presents Tierney as "one of the most technically accomplished sonneteers of his generation, able to bring rhyming forms to bear on his own concerns, such as the especially nihilistic concluding poem "To the Hydrogen Bomb".
[Don Herron, "Richard L(ouis) Tierney" in S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemanowicz, eds, ''Supernatural Literature of the World'', Westport & london: Greenwood Press (3 vols), 2005, pp. 1116-1117.]
Contents
''Collected Poems'' contains the following poems:
# "A Man in the Crowd"
# "The Altar"
# "Sabbat"
# "In Halls of Fantasy"
# "To Gorice XII, King in Carcë"
# "Night Visitant"
# "The Nereid"
# "The Dreadful City"
# "The Madness of the Oracle"
# "The Moon of Endless Night"
# "Hate"
# "The Scrolls"
# "Jack the Ripper"
# "Moubata"
# "The Garret-Room"
# "In Evil Dreams"
# "The Hills"
# "The Volcano"
# "Demon-Star"
# "The Pinnacles"
# "Zarria"
# "The Shadow"
# "Star-Dreams"
# "The Mountain"
# "The Sleeper"
# "The Pilgrimage"
# "The Vengeance of Earth"
# "The Evil House"
# "Homesickness"
# "A Vision on a Midsummer Night"
# "Fulfillment"
# "The Doom Prophet"
# "Found in a Storm-Destroyed Lighthouse"
# "Gods"
# "Tahuantin-Suyu"
# "Sonnet to a Box Elder Bug"
# "The Legend"
# "Yahweh"
# "Mountains of Madness"
# "Carcosa"
# "The Wendigo"
# "To Great Cthulhu"
# "Carpathian Dream"
# "The Swamp Dweller"
# "To Mount Sinai"
# "Dream"
# "Escape"
# "Beyond the Maze"
# "Zora Rach Nam Psarrion"
# "The Image"
# "The Great City"
# "Optimism"
# "The Jewels"
# "Giantess"
# "The Cat"
# "The Balcony"
# "To a Girl Who is Too Gay"
# "Minas Morgul"
# "Mordor"
# "Hope"
# "Illusion"
# "A Glimpse of Hell"
# "Contempt"
# "The Serpent-Men"
# "Enchantress"
# "Prayer to Zathog"
# "To the Hydrogen Bomb"
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1981 poetry books
American poetry collections