{"product_id":"9780789344304","title":"A Midnight Treasury of Macabre and Weird Poems","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Sampson, Ana \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiterature: history \u0026amp; criticism\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 23 September 2025 by Universe Publishing in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 368 pages, 30 colour ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e242 x 161 x 34 | 970g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perfect book for fans of Edgar Allan Poe and, more widely, for those who love their dark side with a touch of horror. Poetry s fascination with the weird and the macabre has a long literary history, and Sampson sates modern appetites with this curated collection of over 300 of the best poems published on the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a fine and terrible tradition of poetry of the occult, the macabre, and the sinister, and this anthology will introduce the reader to both celebrated antiheroes like Keats s serpentine Lamia and Christina Rossetti s thirsty goblins, and less well-known figures from nightmare, such as Violet Fane s deadly Victorian siren and Clare Pollard s ultramodern Reynardine. From the gothic dreamscapes of Edgar Allan Poe to Coleridge s unhallowed ocean, explore the mind s dark places with poems that stretch back centuries to the latest terror from today s bards. The sinister but seductive beauty of illustrators such as Harry Clarke accompany the poems in a volume that will speak to those drawn to the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52186204602704,"sku":"9780789344304","price":19.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9780789344304_9e801228-d62d-4007-92ba-ac307d28c461.jpg?v=1765991791","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780789344304","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}