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Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#13, Spring 1999 ] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, octavo, cover by Jame Riley)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
The Book of Nightmares · K. S. Hardy · pm
Paper Cuts · Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb · pm
Game · Steve Gans · pm
Divinity as Witness to the Depth of Our Darkening Love · Tom Piccirilli · pm
Fred, Mike, and Rich Commit Sedition · William S. Cornell · pm
Night Swimming · Michelle Tupko · pm
Eyes, Like Apples, Ripen · Jennifer Crow · pm
Break · John Picinich · pm
Every Witch I’ve Ever Buried · John Sweet · pm
She Was Death · Raymond Mason · pm
Shootout · Patricia Ryan · pm
Rust · W. Paul Ganley · pm Fireflower 1968
Dawn in a Charleston Courtyard · Hunter James · pm
Remains · Cuyler Brown · pm
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth · Allison Floyd · pm
untitled (“The old woman sits weeping”) · Lisa Longworth · pm
Coup d’État · Joan Mazza · pm
Bared · T. Hobson-Taylor · pm
Night Talk · Paul Weinman · pm
Immaterial · Jerry A. Judge · pm
R.I.P. · Rebecca Treadway · pm
Rough Sex · Brad Buchanan · pm
Finality · Ariel Isolde · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#14, Summer 1999] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, octavo, cover by Marge Simon)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
Zen for Beginners · Leonard Gontarek · pm
Do You Believe Me? · Scott C. Holstad · pm
Open Eye · Michelle Tupko · pm
War Zone · Hana K. Lee · pm
Cleopatra World · Mark McLaughlin · pm
Umbilicile · Michael A. Arnzen · pm
Leviticus Unbound · Scot H. P. Drew · pm
The Rack · Richard Geyer · pm
Hyena Lusts · Rebecca Treadway · pm
Deconstruction · Cindy Main · pm
Truth · Jimmy Nieto · pm
The Coins · Jan Kitchel · pm
The Body’s Last Days · John Grey · pm
Crunchy · Stephen Kopel · pm
Of Monument and Memory · Allison Floyd · pm
Getting Back · Kevin L. Donihe · pm
A Decent Cocktail · Amy Jo Huffman · pm
When He Says He Loves Her · Hillary Lyon · pm
Beatrice, Cockatrice · Kendall Evans · pm
Moment of Grace · Craig Sernotti & John Sweet · pm
Close Up · Larry R. Brooks · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · Marge Simon · cv

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#15, Autumn 1999] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, $2.50, octavo, cover by G. Warlock Vance)
“Reflections in a Dark Mirror” theme issue; macabre poems in the public domain by “classic” authors were accompanied by modern interpretations by contemporary authors. Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
London · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience 1794
The Manacles · Karen R. Porter · pm
The Suicide’s Argument · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge, William Pickering 1828
The Suicide · Richard Geyer · pm
A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal · William Wordsworth · pm Lyrical Ballads (Second Edition) 1800
Rolled in That Dark Dirt · Ann K. Schwader · pm
This Living Hand · John Keats · pm Poems, C & J Ollier 1817
This Undead Hand · Marge Simon · pm
The Phantom-Wooer [from Death’s Jest-Book] · Thomas Lovell Beddoes · pm William Pickering 1850
The Lady’s Answer · Ree Young · pm
Alone · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Scribner’s Monthly Sep 1875
Lone · John Picinich · pm
Lucifer in Starlight · George Meredith · pm Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth, Macmillan 1883
Lucifer (at the World’s Twilight) · G. Warlock Vance · pm
Song · Christina Rossetti · pm (r)
Extreme Unction (with Apologies to Christina Rossetti) · Lorelei K. Hickman · pm
The Darkling Thrush · Thomas Hardy · pm The Graphic Dec 29 1900, as “By the Century’s Deathbed”
The Cusp · Scott H. Urban · pm
from A Season in Hell · Arthur Rimbaud · pm (r); translated from the French (Une Saison en Enfer, Rimbaud, 1873).
For Arthur · Charlee Jacob · pm
The Second Coming · William Butler Yeats · pm The Dial Nov 1920
Mad Dog · Kurt Newton · pm
Richard Cory · Edwin Arlington Robinson · pm Children of the Night, Edwin Arlington Robinson, self-published 1897
The Ghost of Richard Cory · Christopher Welch · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · G. Warlock Vance · cv

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#16, Winter 1999] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, $2.50, octavo, cover by G. Warlock Vance)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
Cannibal · Joel Kuper · pm
My House · P. Sohar · pm
A Countenance More in Anger Than in Sorrow · Tom Piccirilli · pm
The Loving Blade · Robin W. Cooper · pm
The Pickpocket · Danette Hein-Snider · pm
Mr. Hyde · Jamie Wasserman · pm
Into Night · David C. Kopaska-Merkel · pm
Blitzkrieg · Rebecca C. Brooks · pm
Bad Manners · Tom Graham · pm
Green Drowning · Peter Roberts · pm
True Crime · William Taylor, Jr. · pm
A Subtle Key · G. Warlock Vance · pm
Buried Mirrors · Thomas Wiloch · pm
The Ungodly Hour · Joseph V. Danoski · pm
You Always Did Like the Sea · Giovanni Malito · pm
Wraith · Jennifer Crow · pm
The Pandemia · Raymond Mason · pm
Epilogue · Marguerite Maria Rivas · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#17, Spring 2000] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, octavo, cover by Kim Traub)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
What Is Scary · Elaina Olson · pm
For Ted, on the Tenth Anniversary of His Execution · Lorelei K. Hickman · pm
The Slicing · K. S. Hardy · pm
The One-Armed Alligator Wrestler · Zyskandar A. Jaimot · pm
Widows & Orphans · R. T. St. Claire · pm
Gravedigger · Michael Potts · pm
The Dirt · Douglas M. Stokes · pm
Sea-Sickness · D. F. Lewis · pm
Glitch · Judy Klass · pm
Embolism · Michael P. McManus · pm
A Gothic Setting · E. D. Paul · pm
Accident · Charles A. Helzer · pm
Same Circuitry, Different Programs · Christopher Brisson · pm
Pour out the Heart · David Hall · pm
Lamentations · Wendy Turner Swanson · pm
Where Ghosts Fear to Tread · G. Durant Haire · pm
The Decaffeinated Man · Marge Simon · pm
Sane Asylum · Steve S. Nam · pm
She Will Find a Way · Anne K. Schwader · pm
Under the Eyes of a Crucifixion · John R. Harford · pm
To Name Is to Exercise · M. Frias-May · pm
Through the Mirror · Sandra DeLuca · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#18, Summer 2000] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, octavo, cover by Deirdre Storm)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
Blue Bruises · Allison Floyd · pm
The Carrion Hunters · Sean Russell Friend · pm
Contagion Tendencies · Noah M. Tysick · pm
Home Bodies · Kurt Newton · pm
Thrall · Hillary Lyon · pm
Lost Brother · T. Anders Carson · pm
Dimestore Dracula · Christopher Chambers · pm
Bones of Contention · Mary Rudbeck Stanko · pm
Because · Karen R. Porter · pm
Reanimator · Richard Geyer · pm
The Mirror Scene · Kenneth Pobo · pm
Ah...Men · Devorie Franzwa · pm
Truth Like Rancid Meat · John Sweet · pm
The Hole Tilted · Simon Perchik · pm
Water Lilies · Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. · pm
Holocaust of Roses · Bobbi Sinha-Morey · pm
Jehovah Leaves a Corpse · D. H. Hoehner · pm
Only Believe · Warren Anderle · pm
untitled (“poems”) · Kendall Evans · pm
Do Not Come Near · Jesse Wolfe · pm
Driving Back · F. W. Barham · pm
Sanctification · G. Durant Haire · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#19, Autumn 2000] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, $2.50, octavo, cover by G. W. Thomas)
“Abandon All Hope” theme issue; poems centered on Hell and the Devil. Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

[interior illustrations] · Chris Friend · il
Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
Into the Throat of Frenzy · Jacie Ragan · pm
The Devil’s Dialogue · Sean Russell Friend · pm
The Gates of Dis · Jean Jones · pm
Perfect Hell · Karen R. Porter · pm
Accidental Discoveries in the Science of Persuasion · Audrey Walton · pm
Fallen World · Charlee Jacob · pm
Why Prisoner 689174 Calls Himself “Fall” · Mark McLaughlin · pm
Gnashing of Teeth · P. Sohar · pm
Drinking in the Afterlife · Kurt Newton · pm
Aperitif · S. L. Robinson · pm
Eyes Abstract · Paul Shreve · pm
Post Traumatic · Ann K. Schwader · pm
Damned Litany · G. Warlock Vance · pm
Relativity · Gabriele A. Rolle · pm
Fashion Show · D. H. Hoehner · pm
untitled (“Rimbaud is lying with me in hell”) · Leonard Gontarek · pm
Hell · Leonard Gontarek · pm
RR Crossing to Styx · Marge Simon · pm
Epitaph · Michael Pendragon · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · G. W. Thomas · cv

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#20, Winter 2000] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, octavo, cover by Sean Russell Friend)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

[interior illustrations] · Sean Russell Friend · il
Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
The Silence of Ice · Serena Fusek · pm
A Yellowjacket Year · Juditha Dowd · pm
Mean Sheep · Tom Piccirilli · pm
Membrane · Michelle Scalise · pm
Blind Doors · Gerald Zipper · pm
Dolly Amoebae · Melody Sage · pm
Drowning · Nancy McGovern · pm
Victim · Carl Brennan · pm
The Bones Beneath the Flesh · Jennifer Crow · pm
Ode to Sado-Masochism · Linda Smolik · pm
When the Fire Ants Take Over the World · Robert Wooten · pm
Bodies Washed Up on the Shore · John Grey · pm
Jack · P. J. Kaszas · pm
The Unsleeping Worm · K. S. Hardy · pm
The Crows Will Tip Them Off · William S. Cornell · pm
The Wicker Man · Kendall Evans · pm
New Delhi, 1931 · Brian Sheppard · pm
Broken Glass + Broken Skin + Sutures = Transcendent Moment in Midweek · Allison Floyd · pm
Wrinkles · Brendan Connell · pm
Peering Wordless from the Stairs · Daniel J. Weeks · pm
Hair · Juliet Cook · pm
Grave Promise · Cynthia Rausch Allar · pm
Curing a Lover · Marge Simon · pm
Halloween Cinquain · Maryann Hazen-Stearns · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · Sean Russell Friend · cv

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#21, Spring 2001] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, $2.50, octavo, cover by Chris Friend)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

[interior illustrations] · Chris Friend · il
Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
Annunciation · Phillip A. Ellis · pm
Where the Heart Is · Karen R. Porter · pm
The Taste of Dust on My Tongue · Harrison Howe · pm
Stainless · Lee Widing · pm
Weep · Corrine De Winter · pm
Slate · Kirsten Barger · pm
The Wallflower to the Strangled Debutante · Mark Francis · pm
From the Moon · Ray Greenblatt · pm
Stirring · Lorelei K. Hickman · pm
I’ve Killed a Butterfly · Endre Ady; translated by P. Sohar · pm; translated from the Hungarian (“Megöltem egy pillangót”).
Fireplace · Marc Maurus · pm
untitled (“The god that is not here”) · Julia Wills · pm
Kindergarten Desks · Ward Kelly · pm
Meeting Death · Nancy Bennett · pm
Bone of Lamb · Simon Perchik · pm
Serious Measure · DF Lewis · pm
One on One · Ann Taylor · pm
Confession · Christina Sng · pm
DeathAngel · Nancy A. Henry · pm
Nightwing · Kelley Jean White · pm
Shifts · Sean Russell Friend · pm
Distraction · Hillary Lyon · pm
Pus Pearls · Joyce Frohn · pm Mindmares Win 2000
Rehydration · Roibeard Ui-Neill · pm
The Token Death Poem · Amy Soppet · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · Chris Friend · cv

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#22, Summer 2001] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, octavo, cover by Katy Lizabeth)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
The Stranger · Corrine De Winter · pm
Summer Kill · Ann K. Schwader · pm
Flick · John J. Dwyer · pm
From the Coroner’s Point of View · Jimmy Burns · pm
I Know Ghosts · Glenn Smith · pm
Haunted · Irvin Moen · pm
The Plan · Robin Merrill · pm
Poem Found at Midnight · Giovanni Malito · pm
Sleep & George · Joseph Hart · pm
Oedipus Again · Henry Berne · pm
Exact Moment After · Andrew Smith · pm
Near-Birth Experience: Runes of Kali · Daniel H. Chadwick · pm
My Father Is on the Car · Jeff Onore · pm
Incidental Deaths · Kimberly Rogers · pm
Mortmain · Kevin P. Roddy · pm
The Red Girl · Robert Scott Leyse · pm
The House at Arnheim · Stuart J. Silverman · pm Dreams and Nightmares #57 2000
Father Cuts the Family Tree · Claudine R. Moreau · pm
More Endings · Chris Bernard · pm
The Terrorist Moon · Edmund Grabowski · pm
Mystery · Richard Geyer · pm
Comprehension · Joey Froehlich · pm
Underneath · Lee Widing · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · Katy Lizabeth · cv

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#23, Autumn 2001] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, $2.50, octavo, cover by Scott H. Urban)
“Octoberland” theme issue: poems based on autumn and Halloween. Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
Octoberland · P. J. Kaszas · pm
Ring Around the Moon · Jennifer Crow · pm
Scraps · Laura Jacobsen · pm
The Witch’s Baking Day · K. S. Hardy · pm
October · Karen R. Porter · pm
Witching Time · Mark Francis · pm
Sunshine · Gabriele A. Rolle · pm
A Window Opens · Wendy Rathbone · pm
Captives · Charlee Jacob · pm
A Mongolian Ghost-Story · G. Warlock Vance · pm
Harbingers · Kurt Newton · pm
Deep Into November · Ann K. Schwader · pm
Beyond October · Angel Reign · pm
Summer’s Corpse · G. Durant Haire · pm
Epitaph · James P. Roberts · pm
Jack O’Lantern · Marge Simon · pm
November Twilight · Serena Fusek · pm
Autumnal Elegy · Lida Broadhurst · pm
Halloween Haiku · Richard William Pearce · pm
Never November First · Scott H. Urban · pm
Mister October · John Grey · pm
November · Michelle Scalise & Tom Piccirilli · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · Crow Ravenscar · cv

Frisson: Disconcerting Verse [#24, Winter 2001] ed. Scott H. Urban (Skull Job Productions, $2.50, octavo, cover by Chris Friend)
Details supplied by Scott H. Urban.

Foreshadowings · Scott H. Urban · ed
Sick Poet Society · Suzan E. Raimond · pm
Web · Kendall Evans · pm
Parthenogenesis · Kelley Jean White · pm
Shroud · Christina Sng · pm
In the Bughouse · Steven Shields · pm
Grief Is for Beginners · Michael Kirwin · pm
Sedimental · Cindy Main · pm
The Grand Host · Craig Sernotti · pm
I Am a Plain · Sita Rose · pm
Bourbon Street, 4 a.m. · Gary West · pm
Head in the Jar · John Grey · pm
The Exchange · Brian Rosenberger · pm
Eating the Dead · C. A. Spiel · pm
Closure · Daniel Beatty · pm
Scarecrows · Michael Boccardo · pm
Sleeptide · Peter Roberts · pm
Death News · Judith W. Monroe · pm
My Head · Benita Glickman · pm
In Utero at the Coe Estate · Daniel J. Weeks · pm
The Coroner Inspects the Inner Ear · Jimmy Burns · pm
Liebestod · Joseph Hart · pm
The Last Bullet · Francis Blessington · pm
On Being Loved by a Daemon · Will Inman · pm
Last Words · Daniel H. Chadwick · pm
Dramatis Personae · Scott H. Urban · bg
bc. · [back cover] · Chris Friend · cv

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