The Devil's Wine


The Devil's Wine edited by Tom Piccirilli, illustrations by Caniglia Cemetery Dance, $40, 360 pages, ISBN: 1587670704 reviewed by Barry Hunter This is a volume that will appeal to a wide range of readers. That is especially unusual in that it is a volume of poetry. But it is not just any run of the mill poetry; it is poetry from the likes of Ray Bradbury, Graham Masterton, Jack Cady, Brian Hodge, Tamara Thorne and others. The poetry from Stephen King is seeing print here for the first time in over thirty years and shows how the darkness that is found in his longer works started out in these small snippets that can be as horrorful as some novels. Michael Bishop contributes several poems including five from his unpublished novel, AN OWL AT THE CRUCIFIXION. He shows another side in "Her Chimpanion", "Philip K. Dick is Dead, a Lass", and "The Hornet". Other favorites are "Porn Loop" by Edward Lee, "Toasting Harlan Ellison" by Tamara Thorne, "19 Haiku" by Charles de Lint and "For the Holidays" by Elizabeth Massie. Other poets featured are Joe Haldeman, T.M. Wright, Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem, Peter Crowther, Jack Ketchem and Peter Straub. With this lineup, you can see that this is not your ordinary poetry collection. As is common in poetry, some will rhyme – some won’t; some are log – some short; some are about the pain of life – some the joys of death; but, all will pique your interest and make this a volume to be treasured and read more than once because whether we want to admit it or not, our perspective on life changes the older we get.
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The Devil's Wine
edited by Tom Piccirilli, illustrations by Caniglia
Cemetery Dance, $40, 360 pages, ISBN: 1587670704
reviewed by Barry Hunter

This is a volume that will appeal to a wide range of readers. That is especially unusual in that it is a volume of poetry. But it is not just any run of the mill poetry; it is poetry from the likes of Ray Bradbury, Graham Masterton, Jack Cady, Brian Hodge, Tamara Thorne and others.

The poetry from Stephen King is seeing print here for the first time in over thirty years and shows how the darkness that is found in his longer works started out in these small snippets that can be as horrorful as some novels. Michael Bishop contributes several poems including five from his unpublished novel, AN OWL AT THE CRUCIFIXION. He shows another side in "Her Chimpanion", "Philip K. Dick is Dead, a Lass", and "The Hornet".

Other favorites are "Porn Loop" by Edward Lee, "Toasting Harlan Ellison" by Tamara Thorne, "19 Haiku" by Charles de Lint and "For the Holidays" by Elizabeth Massie. Other poets featured are Joe Haldeman, T.M. Wright, Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem, Peter Crowther, Jack Ketchem and Peter Straub. With this lineup, you can see that this is not your ordinary poetry collection.

As is common in poetry, some will rhyme – some won’t; some are log – some short; some are about the pain of life – some the joys of death; but, all will pique your interest and make this a volume to be treasured and read more than once because whether we want to admit it or not, our perspective on life changes the older we get.

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