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• A Light in the Darkness That Cannot Be Hid • essay by Joe Monson
• Legacy of the Corridor • (2022) • essay by Joe Monson
• The Power of Story • essay by Michael R. Collings
• The Persistence of Darkness • essay by Michael R. Collings
• The Epic of Dune: Epic Traditions in Modern Science Fiction • essay by Michael R. Collings
• To Name a Genre • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Literature, Genre, Horror...and Mormons—What? • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Monsters: Through a Perspective Glass • essay by Michael R. Collings
• On a Dark and Narrow Way • essay by Michael R. Collings
• ...Is Death • poem by Michael R. Collings
• "Night's Plutonian Shore" • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• In the House Beyond the Field • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Dweller on the Edge of Day • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Warren—Portrait of the Artist as a Neurotic • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Warren Evaluates the Effects of Aripiprazole • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Warren Says Farewell to His Father's Ghost • poem by Michael R. Collings
• On Entering the Fantastic • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Three Hallmarks of Horror: Location, Isolation, and Language • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Reading Stephen King • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Women and the Fantastic—A Glimpse into a Beginning • essay by Michael R. Collings
• On Seventeenth-Century Ghosts and What We Can Learn from Them • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Some Thoughts on the Werewolf • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Good Words/Bad Words • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Not–So-Good Horror: Why Little Things Count • essay by Michael R. Collings
• When Words Stumble • essay by Michael R. Collings
• Transforming Terrible • essay by Michael R. Collings
• A Midnight Shooting on the Golden State Freeway • (1990) • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine's Day • (1989) • novelette by Michael R. Collings
• Brace the Bear and the Great Eagle-beyond-the-Mountain • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• Dame Ginny McLaserbeam and the Dastardly Duke • (2019) • short story by Judith Collings and Michael R. Collings
• In the Haunting Darkness • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• Jury of His Peers • (2010) • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• Miniaturist • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• Palimpsest • (1981) • short story by Michael R. Collings
• The Calling of Iam'Kendron • (1979) • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• Wer Means Man • (1990) • short story by Michael R. Collings
• The Egress of Hell • (2016) • short story by Michael R. Collings
• From: Averse to Horrors: An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Because I Would Not Stop for Death • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Black Crocuses • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow • (1995) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Christ of Universe • (2018) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Dermatillomania • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Envy of Demons • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Galactic Ambassador Is Invited to Hear the Hand-built Organ on a Newly Conquered World, Its Function Explained by the Victorious Planetary Overlord • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Grendel's Mother • (2016) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• I Wander the Cosmos, Inventing It • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Last Pastoral • (1985) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Legend of Kometes • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Nosferatu Arrives at Wisborg • poem by Michael R. Collings
• On the First Outdoor Testing of a Man-Made Bacterium in a Strawberry Patch in California • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Program • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Savage • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Spatio-Temporal Spectacles • (1993) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Tapestry • (2016) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• Triple Sonnet in a Season of Pandemic • poem by Michael R. Collings
• The Wind from Whirl-Away • poem by Michael R. Collings
• And When the Bold Word-Monger Came • poem by Michael R. Collings
• When the Dreamer of Worlds Wakes • poem by Michael R. Collings