- Author: Frank Coffman Author Record # 174359
- Language: English
- Webpages: Goodreads, researchgate.net
- Note: Retired professor of English. Founder and moderator of the "Weird Poets Society" Facebook group.
- Additional Biographical Data: Bio:Frank Coffman
- Author Tags: Robert E. Howard (2), horror poetry (1)
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Fiction Series Collections
- Coffman Street: Poems for Robert E. Howard (2010)
- This Ae Nighte, Every Nighte and Alle (2018)
- The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019)
- Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows (2020)
- The Exorcised Lyric (2020) with Steven Withrow
- Eclipse of the Moon (2021)
- What the Night Brings (2023)
- Journ-E
- Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022 (2022)
- Journ-e, September 2022 (2022)
- The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
- Speculations: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2018 (2019)
- Speculations II: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2019 (2020)
- Speculations III: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2020 (2021)
- The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art (2022)
- The Vampiricon: Imaginings & Images of the Vampire (2023)
- The Lycanthropicon: Imaginings & Images of the Werewolf (2024)
- Foregone Conclusion (2017)
- The White Terror: A Weird Tale of the Victorian Age (2017)
- Carnivale ad Litteram (2018)
- Reinforcements (2019)
- The Hunger (2022)
- A Spirit on the Wind (2004)
- Crazy Son (2005)
- Keys (2006)
- Birth (2009)
- Son of Song (2009)
- Decision (2009)
- Elsewhere Man (2009)
- REH (2009)
- Simeria (2009)
- The Future Howard Reader (2009)
- The Harp of Robert (2009)
- The Outgoing of Robert the Far-Lands Farer (2009)
-
The Casualty of the Somme (2016)
also appeared as:
- Variant: A Casualty of the Somme (2019)
- A Traveler to the City (2016)
- The Forest of Horror (2016)
-
Cwn Annwn [The Hounds of Annwn] (2017)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Cwn Annwn (2019)
- FINIS (2017)
- The Flame and the Shadow (2017)
- The Gift (2017)
- The Summoner (2017)
- The Wind (2017)
- Unheeded Warning (2017)
- Jack (a Gwawdodyn Sonnet) (2017)
- Samhain Redivivus (2017)
- The Fateful Flower (2017)
- The Witch of the Woods (2017)
- Behind the Mask (2017)
- To His Anything-but-Coy Mistress (2017)
- "footprint in red dust" (2017)
- "time machine" (2017)
- Aokigahara (2017)
-
Dracul's Demesne: A Sonnet Sequence (2017)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Dracul's Demesne (2017)
- Metamorphosis (2017)
- The Master's Lesson for the Apprentice Mage (2017)
- Thoughts on the Horror Sonnet (2017)
- "clear, winter night" (2017)
- The Offering (2017)
- A Page from a Werewolf's Diary (2018)
- Vengeance (2018)
- The Last Transport (2018)
- Terror at Twilight (2018)
- Lycanthrope Moon (2018)
- The Stalking Horror (2018)
- Beware the Night! (2018)
- The Corner of the Eye (2018)
- Castle of Dread (2018)
-
Et Carpe Noctum (2018)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Ea Carpe Noctis (2018)
- Thessalonike (2018)
-
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul (Pickman Retold) (2018)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul (2019)
- Portent of Doom (2018)
-
Spectral Realms: An Homage (2018)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Spectral Realms: An Hommage (2019)
- The Thing in the Forest (2018)
-
Weird Tales, the First Run: An Homage (2018)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Weird Tales, The First Run (2019)
- At the Gravesite (2018)
- Daydream (2018)
- Sin-Eating Jack (2018)
-
The Tune on the Wind-Harp (2018)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Tune on the Wind Harp (2019)
- Ars Timore (2018)
-
The Side Unshown - A Tale of Carnival Horror (2018)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Side Unshown: A Tale of Carnival Horror (2020)
- The Calling (2018)
- "she beckons most nights" (2018)
- "clear winter night" (2019)
- The Dutchman (2019)
- Warnings to the Curious (2019)
- "But Thinking Makes It So" (2019)
- "Four Score and Seven" (2019)
- A Call to Weird Poets (2019)
- A Challenge Met (2019)
- A Dangerous Quest (2019)
- A Day May Come (2019)
- A Desolate House (2019)
- A Haven for the Homeless (2019)
- A Little Knowledge (2019)
- A Little Square of Ink (2019)
- A Meeting of the Covern (2019)
- A Poem Upon a Page (2019)
- A Soldier's Story (2019)
- A Trisengraf (2019)
- A Warlock's Curse (2019)
- A Warning to the Curious (2019)
- Accursed (2019)
- Adventure's Call (2019)
- After Sunlight Fails (2019)
- Aftertaste (2019)
- Ars Timore (A Wreath of Sonnets) (2019)
- Asylum (2019)
- Ballade for the Would-Be Weird Poets (2019)
- Beneath the Crescent Moon (2019)
- Beware This House (2019)
- Beyond the First Attempt (2019)
- Bierce's "The Damned Thing" (2019)
- Black Shuck: A Legend of East Anglia (2019)
- Blood Bath Aftermath: Bathory's Fate (2019)
- Cambion (2019)
- Can Spring Be Far? (2019)
- Chariot of the Muse: On Writing Aerostics (2019)
- Content with Form [pun intended] (2019)
- Convert (2019)
- Credo (2019)
- Dance of the Damned (2019)
- De Forma Virtutum (2019)
- Decadence of Jade (for Park Barnitz) (2019)
- Delay (2019)
- Desolated Realm (2019)
- Dire Wolves (2019)
- Dr. Anaxagoras Venn Postulates on Occult Case (2019)
- Ennui (2019)
- Experimentation (2019)
- Familiar (2019)
- Fantasy's Greatest Gift (2019)
- First Planting (2019)
- Five Scifaiku (2019)
- Foiled Conjuring (2019)
- Forbidden Tome (2019)
- Forbidden Words (2019)
- Formal Freedom (2019)
- Forms of Fear (2019)
- Ghostku (2019)
- Goat-Sucker (2019)
- Greed's Reward (2019)
- Grettir's Battle with Glam (2019)
- Gwyn Met the Devil (2019)
- Göbekli Tepi (2019)
- Hark! The New Poets (2019)
- Her Secret (2019)
- Heritage (2019)
- Hilltop House (2019)
- Horror Poetics: Strength in Numbers (2019)
- Hunter/Hunted (2019)
- I Like Things Old (2019)
- Illinois poet, Carl drew pictures, The (2019)
- In Illinois (2019)
- In Lost Carcosa (2019)
- It is Halloween (2019)
- Jack (2019)
- Keyfinder (2019)
- La Llorona—"The Weeping Woman" (2019)
- Lamia (2019)
- Legacy (2019)
- Legend: Archer Avenue, Chicago (2019)
- Lost Atlantis (2019)
- Lycanthropos (2019)
- Mary Shelley at the Cinema (2019)
- Meta-poesis (2019)
- Moonshadows (2019)
- Mysterious Stranger (2019)
- NecronomiCon (2019)
- Necrovore (2019)
- Neighbor (2019)
- Neohyte's Lesson (2019)
- Night of the Skinwalker (2019)
- Nosferatu (2019)
- Occult Detectiv(E) (2019)
- On the Horrific Sonnet (2019)
- POdE (an Ode to Poe) (2019)
- Poet of Lost Atlantis (for Donald Sydney-Fryer) (2019)
- Poets of the Dark (2019)
- Poltergeist (2019)
- Portals (2019)
- Praeternaturalis (2019)
- Prelude (2019)
- Ragana (2019)
- Rawhead/Bloody Bones (2019)
- RE-Vision (2019)
- Renderings of Some Quantrains from Khayyam's Rubaiyat (2019)
- Repeated Ritual (2019)
- Residual Murder (2019)
- Restrictions (2019)
- Revelation (2019)
- Ring of Horror (2019)
- Rodine for Halloween (2019)
- Rolf's Ride (2019)
- Roommates (2019)
- Rose Maddow (2019)
- Rougarou (2019)
- Samhain Night (2019)
- Saucy Jack (2019)
- Sea Wife (2019)
- Shadow Folk (2019)
- Shamus (2019)
- Shaytan (2019)
- Sijo Sequence (for Frederick J. Mayer) (2019)
- Sin-Eating Jack: A Ballad of Halloween Horror (2019)
- Singing in Chains (2019)
- Skiffy (2019)
- So They Say (2019)
- Solstice Sunset (2019)
- Song of the Ghouls (2019)
- Sonnetku for Halloween (2019)
- Sorrow Singer (for Frederick Goddard Tuckerman) (2019)
- Spawn of Iblis (2019)
- Stoned Troll (2019)
- Tasty Bugs (2019)
- That Old House (2019)
- The Absinthe Drinker (2019)
- The Awakening (Karloff in the Mummy) (2019)
- The Bards (for Robert E. Howard) (2019)
- The Beast of Bodmin Moor (2019)
- The Cabin Just Outside (2019)
- The Carnacki Formula (for Wm. Hope Hodgson) (2019)
- The Charge of the Foot Brigade (2019)
- The Choice (2019)
- The Communicant (2019)
- The Condemned (2019)
- The Coven's Hornbook (2019)
- The Crossing (2019)
- The Cursed Recipe (2019)
- The Devil's Dinner Party (2019)
- The Discovery (2019)
- The Game (2019)
- The Gathering (2019)
- The Gist Is Found by Listing (2019)
- The Golden Knight and the Dragon (2019)
- The Great Eisteddfod (2019)
- The Guardian of the Garden (2019)
- The Guide (2019)
- The Hag of the Mists (2019)
- The Hanging Tree (2019)
- The Harvest (2019)
- The Hound (2019)
- The House on Witch Hill (2019)
- The Hunt (2019)
- The Korrigans (2019)
- The Lake's Secret (2019)
- The Last Eclogue (2019)
- The Lines (2019)
- The Lost Lover's Message (2019)
- The Magic Portal (for Arthur Conan Doyle) (2019)
- The Mission (2019)
- The Occult Detective (2019)
- The Poet's Challenge (2019)
- The Quarrel (2019)
- The Race (2019)
- The Realms of Gold (2019)
- The Repetitive Client (for Arthur Conan Doyle) (2019)
- The Sci-Fi Sonnet (2019)
- The Scroll of Thoth (2019)
- The Secrets (2019)
- The Sonneteers (2019)
- The Tylwyth Teg (2019)
- The Vine, The Wine, The Design (2019)
- The Waking (2019)
- The Ways Poems Come to Me (Sequence of Poems) (2019)
- The Weird Poem: Some Thoughts (2019)
- The Well of the Witch (Sonnet Sequence) (2019)
- The Wight of the West Barrow (2019)
- The Witches' Rite at Beltane (2019)
- The Witches' Sabbats (2019)
- The Wood (2019)
- These Leaves Falling (2019)
- They (2019)
- Those Days in Salem Town (2019)
- Though Some Will Say (2019)
- Transformation (2019)
- Transylvanian Legend (2019)
- Two Techniques for Poetic Revision (2019)
- Under the Skull of Ymir (2019)
- Undine (2019)
- Unwelcome Guest (2019)
- Why Time Travel Will Be a Long Way Off (2019)
- Winter Again (2019)
- Witching Well (2019)
- Worn Paths Are Best Followed (2019)
- Wrong Turn (2019)
- Wronged Sorceress (2019)
- The Forsaken (2019)
- The Great Wheel (2019)
- The Promised Awakening (2019)
- The Ancient Crossing (2019)
- The Habit of Killing (2019)
- The Pathways of R'lyeh (2019)
- Black Holes (2020)
- Reset (2020)
- Minoan Messages (2020)
- The Conjuring (2020)
- A Demon's Thoughts (2020)
- A Gargoyle's Meditations (2020)
- Adam and the Eildon Tree (2020)
- Antikithera (2020)
- Aokigahara Lullaby (2020)
- Audience with the Last King (2020)
- Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows (2020)
- Cassandra (2020)
- Convergence (2020)
- Curse of the Dragon's Son (2020)
- Danger Zone (2020)
- Eidolon (2020)
- Enheduanna (2020)
- Eos (2020)
- Event Horizon (2020)
- Fib-on-ac-ci-dent? (2020)
- For Now, They Sleep (2020)
- Freolaf at the Bridge (2020)
- Ghazal for Samhain (2020)
- Going Beyond (2020)
- Hide and Seek (2020)
- If But They Could (2020)
- In Transylvania (2020)
- Incursion (2020)
- It WAS a Dark and Stormy Night (2020)
- Ithaqua (2020)
- Jenny Greenteeth (2020)
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E "?Poetry?" (2020)
-
La Bęte: The Beast of Gévaudan?La Bete: The Beast of Gevaudan(2020)
- Leaving Earth Behind (2020)
- Loup-Garou (2020)
- Mage of Minstrelsy (2020)
- Mentis Ignis (The Mind's Fire) (2020)
- Mephistophales & Faust (2020)
- Merlin's Vision (2020)
- Odin (2020)
- Odin's Footsteps (2020)
- Old Whitey (2020)
- One Way Robert Frost and I Are Different (2020)
- Portrait of the Artist (2020)
- Post- (2020)
- Proem: They Say My Verse Is Weird (2020)
- Rapa Nui (2020)
- Redcap (2020)
- Renderings of Some Quatrains of Khayyám's Rubáiyát into Verse (2020)
- Summoning at New Moon (2020)
- Taking Measures (2020)
- The Birth of Freolaf (2020)
- The Blue Men of the Minch (2020)
- The Crawling Chaos (2020)
- The Cyborg Dilemma (2020)
- The Edge (2020)
- The Eve of November (2020)
- The First Attempt (2020)
- The Gate (2020)
- The Ghosts of Old Samhain (2020)
- The Idol (2020)
- The Majority (and Rules) (2020)
- The Return (2020)
- The Spooky Path Not Taken (2020)
- The True Test (2020)
- The Twilight Zone: An Homage (2020)
- The Vampire Ball: A Megasonnet Sequence (2020)
- The Veil Is Torn (2020)
- The Wheel of the Year (2020)
- The White Face (2020)
- The Wooing of the Witch (2020)
- The Work of Art in the Age of Free and Instant Distribution (2020)
- They Watch and Wait (2020)
- To Keep Samhain from Being Dull (2020)
- Valley of Dread (2020)
- Vampire Song (2020)
- Verse's Vagabond (2020)
- Weird Verse Should Strive (2020)
- When the Moon Is Full (2020)
- Wordsmith's of the Weird (2020)
- Agon (2020)
- The Line (2020)
- He Who Waits (2020)
- Ouroboros (2020)
- The Hidebehind: A Legend of the North Country (2020)
- Georgics for Cthulhu (2020)
- Halloween 2020 (2020)
- Night Shapes (2020)
- Beyond the Veil (2020)
- Toward Solstice Station (2020) with Steven Withrow
- Lawrence Talbot (2021)
- The Dearg-Due: An Irish Legend of Horror (2021)
- The Woses (2021)
- "Seek and Ye Might Find":A Ghost Bloggers' Tale (2021)
- A Ditty on One Rhyme (2021)
- A Haunting (2021)
- A Place Possessed (2021)
- A Short Note to My Son (2021)
- A Short Tale Retold (2021)
- A Thin Place (2021)
- All Hallows Eve (2021)
- As Summer Turns to Autumn (2021)
- Baleful Bond (2021)
- Beyond All Hallow' (2021)
- Beyond the Bourn (2021)
- Beyong the Veil (2021)
-
Breed Accursed (2021)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Breed Accursed (2) (2021)
- Captain Gruchy's Ghost: A Tale of Old Boston's North Tunnels (2021)
- Chaos from the Cosmos (2021)
- Citadel Accursed (2021)
- Close Behind (2021)
- Cornish Creatures (2021)
- Curse of the Undead (2021)
- Dawn of the Night (2021)
- Dog Star (2021)
- Dusk Dangers, Strange Seasons (2021)
- Dyn Blaidd (2021)
- Eclipse of the Moon (2021)
- El Coco (2021)
- Facade: Halloween Masked Ball—1925 (2021)
- Georgies for Cthulhu (2021)
- Grammy Hawkins' Book (2021)
- Indelible Vision (2021)
- Joining the Club (2021)
- Kyayyám's Rubáiyát / Dedication of the Second Edition (2021)
- La Villa Infestada: The Last Pages from The Journal of Montague Le Fanu Blackpool (2021)
- Laika (2021)
- Laplace's Demon (2021)
- Legend of the Lich (2021)
- Little Armored One (2021)
- Long Hidden (2021)
- Long Lines of Gray (2021)
- Longmire (2021)
- Lost Thoughts of the Amateur Medium (2021)
- Lycan (2021)
- Malum ex Machina (2021)
- Margin-Ail-ia (2021)
- Micro-Organisms (2021)
- Nachzehrer (2021)
- Old Words (2021)
- On Getting Older (2021)
- Ouija (2021)
- Ousting Articles (2021)
- Out There (2021)
- Pandemic (2021)
- Past Tense (2021)
- Perspective (2021)
- Poenari (2021)
- Poeti in grado di catturare gli strani (2021)
- Point of View (2021)
- Preparations (2021)
- Problem Dis-Solved (2021)
- Re-Creation (2021)
- Roundmoon Rituaol (2021)
- Sad Seeps Beneath the Silent Moon (2021)
- Santa Compańa (2021)
- Split Person-alities: Two "Double Exposure" Sonnets (2021)
- The "Canni-Ballad" of Sawney Bean (2021)
- The Algul (2021)
- The Ankou (2021)
- The Baba Yaga (2021)
- The Blue Holes of Andros: Two Bahanian Legends (2021)
- The Bunyip (2021)
- The Collection (2021)
- The Darkroom (2021)
- The Decipherment: An Epyllon (2021)
- The Devil's Dell (2021)
- The Fiend of The Fens (2021)
- The Greyman of Ben MacDhui: An Old Scot Tells a Tale (2021)
- The Jiangshi (2021)
- The Nachtkrappl (2021)
- The Old Ones (2021)
- The Reaping (2021)
- The Skald Sings of Samhain (2021)
- The Socratic Method (2021)
- The Truly Lost Tribe (2021)
- The Unlikeness (2021)
- The Valdemar Effect (2021)
- The Witch House (2021)
- The Woman of the Mound (2021)
- This Side (2021)
- Weir Home (2021)
- White Watkins (2021)
- Words on Ghastly Vellum Writ (2021)
- Yurei (2021)
- La Villa Infestada (2021)
- Shadows, You Say (2021)
- Sad Steps Beneath the Silent Moon (2021)
- Monstrous Meetings (2021)
- Eidolon Tetratych (2022)
- The Clingers (2022)
- The Lorelei (2022)
- Dweller in the Hidden Chamber (The Great Pyramid, Giza) (2022)
- The Doorway (2022)
- Fantasy's Values (2022)
- The Magic Portal (2022)
- I See Too Much: A Clairvoyant's Complaint (2022)
- The Final Space Odyssey (2022)
- The Seeker's Lament (2022)
- The Kannibaali (2022)
- Crossing Over (2022)
- Locus Horroris (2023)
- Mr. Illusive (2023)
- Pericula Noctis (2023)
- Dracul's Demense: A Sonnet Sequence (2023)
- A Cabin in the Wood (2023)
- Lob (2023)
- Strange Door, Odd Key (2023)
- A Martian Memoir (2023)
- The Demon of the Islands (2024)
- The Monsters of the Moor (2024)
- The Trys (2024)
- Phases (2024)
- Born Again (2024)
- Gossamer Gateways (2024)
- The Explanation of the Mystery (2024)
- The Eve of All Hallows' (2024)
- The Ogham Stone (2024)
- Carcosan Shadows (2025)
- Horror Home (2025)
- A Drawing by Robert E. Howard: "Where the East and the West Shall Meet" (2001)
- Editor's Welcome (2001)
- Lock Box 313 (The Dark Man #5) (2001)
- The Cairn (The Dark Man #5) (2001)
- A Note from the Editor (2002)
- Notes on Two Versions of an Unpublished Poem by Robert E. Howard (2002)
-
Editor's Corner (The Dark Man #7) (2004)
with
Charles Allen Gramlich
and
Mark Hall
and
Scotty Henderson
only appeared as:
- Variant: Editor's Corner (2004) [as by Frank Coffman and Charles Gramlich and Mark Hall and Scotty Henderson]
- Letter (The Cimmerian, August 2004) (2004)
- Robert E. Howard and Poetic Narrative: The Bardic Tradition and "Popular Modernities" (2006)
- Texas Talespinner: Robert E. Howard's Ways with Words (2006)
- Letter (The Cimmerian, April 2008) (2008)
- The Robert E. Howard Poetry Collections: An Overview (2008)
- Skelos (2009) with Rusty Burke
- A Mock "Discovery": The Palimpsest Version of Robert E. Howard's "Cimmeria" Written in Anglo-Saxon (2009)
- Introduction (Coffman Street) (2009)
- Introduction - Robert E. Howard: The Flame and the Shadow (2009)
- Poetic Justice: Glenn Lord's Achievement in the Publication and Popularization of Howard's Poetry (2011)
- Barbarism Ascendant: The Poetic and Epistolary Origins of the Character and His World (2012)
- The Poets of Weird Tales (2016)
- The Poets of Weird Tales: Part 2 (2016)
- Verse vs. Free Verse (2018)
- A New Formalist (book reviews) (2018)
- Glossary of Forms (2019)
- Introduction (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) (2019)
- List of Illustrations (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) (2019)
- Preface (Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows) (2020)
- A Note to the Reader (Speculations II: Poetry from the Weird Poets Society 2019) (2020)
- Notes: on "The Blue Holes of Andros" (2021)
- Poet's Prefact (Eclipse of the Moon) (2021)
- Illustrateing Robert E. Howard in Weird Tales (2021)
- Editor's Welcome (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)
- Introduction to Fantasy (section introduction) (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)
- Introduction to Horror & the Supernatural (section introduction) (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)
- Introduction to Science Fiction (section introduction) (Journ-E, Vernal Equinox 2022) (2022)
- Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard (2006)
- Coffman Street: Poems for Robert E. Howard (2010)
- The Vampiricon: Imaginings & Images of the Vampire (2023)
- Illustration of The Hornbook (2019)