Bøger af Michael Potts

From Field to Thicket won the 2006 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award of the North Carolina Writers' Network. Jim Clark, Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the English Department at Barton College in Wilson, NC, says, ""Mortality haunts these poems of love, family, friendship, and betrayal. Well-crafted but with a casual but elegant formality, they set the scalpel to our conflicted humanity, asking the big questions that don't always have comforting answers."

Gwyn Paisley sleeps by day, and travels by night. She always has. When she crashes her car during a snowstorm and strands herself in the forest, she holds little hope for rescue. Gwyn does not have friends. She only has toys...and none of those toys would answer a call for help. Luckily for her, Jack and Monica Glass see the wreck and invite this stranger into their home. Something immediately appears wrong with Ms. Paisley, who ducks by mirrors and declines to use silver utensils. But when nightmares start to haunt the waking, is Ms. Paisley to blame? Monica would like to say so, but Gwyn is not the only person keeping secrets here. Look at me. Look at me. Why aren't you afraid?

Horror poems should invade the ordinariness of the day and allow the reader to sense the chill of the uncanny. They should form dream images that haunt during sleep. This broad collection of horror poetry ranges in subject matter from death to ghosts, from dark corners of the human psyche and human behavior to Lovecraftian monsters. They will haunt and they will cling to the mind like an ancient beast's tentacles. Be careful looking over your shoulder if you feel fingers touch it--you may find that the fingers are fleshless but the claws sharp.

In this book of chilling horror stories,there are a varitiety of monsters. There are the Old Ones who once ruled the earth and will rule again, hostile to humankind. A boy who comes by at twilight to play is more than he seems. A man goes through a warp and space and time to learn a horrible truth about himself. An old preacher goes to church and discovered that all the old members to whom he preached have returned, including the dead ones. A woman has an intuition that something isn't quite right about her husband. These and other stories of supernatural and natural horror will keep you up at night with a sense of the uncanny, the chill that starts at the peak of the hair on the head and moves down to the toes. These will stay with you long after you finish reading the book. "A terrifying journey into a grotesque funhouse, in which the darkness of the universe is complemented by the blackness of the human soul." --Katherine Kerestman, author of Creepy Cat's Macabre Travels