Vicious Romantic by Wrath James White
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-926912-02-8
Editor: Rich Ristow
Publisher: Needfire Poetry
Pages: 88
Dimensions: 5.25″x8″
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2010 Stoker Award nominee Vicious Romantic is a collection of poems from one of the hardest of the hardcore horror authors. Using traditional Japanese and Korean formal poetic structures, this collection takes the very best elements of Wrath James White’s prose and condenses it into a medium that is both disturbing and thought-provoking.
A wife murders her husband and buries him in the desert then visits everyday to lay roses on his grave. A love-sick man falls victim to a predator. A mother mourns the infant she abandoned in the garbage. Wendigos, zombies, serial killers, vampires, and even a serial killer murdering a vampire, Wrath James White takes traditional horror themes and gives them his own diabolical twist.
What they’re saying about Vicious Romantic:
“In Vicious Romantic, White deftly utilizes Japanese and Korean verse forms (e.g. haiku comprise the “stanzas” of select poems); the writing, as a result, is at once tight and resonant.”
– Joe Nazare, Macabre Republic
“This collection isn’t child’s play, people. This is some intensely crafted material, deep and dark enough to remind us there are things that go bump in the night, and monsters do, in fact, lurk under the bed. Wrath does a fine job of reminding us all… life doesn’t play favorites, and death isn’t fair, right?”
- Jassen Bailey, The Bag and Crow
Excerpt:
Necropolis
A garbage-strewn streetLittered with glass and cigarettes
Where curses resound
Promises die unfulfilled
The dreams of youth are martyred
In this corrupt place
Reeking of semen and blood
The real monsters live
Demons of all description
In a comfortable new hell
Wrath James White is the author of The Resurrectionist, Yaccub’s Curse, Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town, Succulent Prey, The Book of a Thousand Sins, His Pain and Population Zero. He is the co-author of Teratologist co-written with the king of extreme horror, Edward Lee, Orgy of Souls co-written with Maurice Broaddus, Hero co-written with J.F. Gonzalez, and Poisoning Eros co-written with Monica J. O’Rourke.
Wrath lives and works in Austin, Texas with his two daughters, Isis and Nala, his son Sultan and his wife Christie.
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