In Mayan Splendor
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In Mayan Splendor is a collection of poems by Frank Belknap Long
. It was released in 1977
by Arkham House
in an edition of 2,947 copies. The book is illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian and contains the complete contents of Long's earlier verse collections, A Man from Genoa (1926) and The Goblin Tower (1935) plus additional poems.
Frank Belknap Long
Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
. It was released in 1977
1977 in literature
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by Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...
in an edition of 2,947 copies. The book is illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian and contains the complete contents of Long's earlier verse collections, A Man from Genoa (1926) and The Goblin Tower (1935) plus additional poems.
Contents
In Mayan Splendor contains the following poems:- "In Mayan Splendor"
- "A Knight of La Mancha"
- "Sonnet"
- "A Man from Genoa"
- "Advice"
- "Pirate-Men"
- "On Icy Kinarth"
- "The Magi"
- "On Reading Arthur Machen"
- "Stallions of the Moon"
- "In Hospital"
- "Ballad of St. Anthony"
- "The White People"
- "An Old Tale Retold"
- "Prediction"
- "The Rebel"
- "Two Stanzas for Master François Villon"
- "The Goblin Tower"
- "West Indies"
- "The Hashish-Eater"
- "When We Have Seen"
- "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville"
- "Manhattan Skyline & W.W."
- "The Horror on Dagoth Wold"
- "In the Garden of Eros"
- "The Prophet"
- "Night-Trees"
- "Florence"
- "When Chaugnar Wakes"
- "In Antique Mood"
- "The Abominable Snow Men"
- "A Sonnet for Seamen"
- "Ballad of Mary Magdalene"
- "Great Ashtoreth"
- "Subway"
- "An Old Wife Speaketh It"
- "A Time Will Come"
- "The Inland Sea"
- "Exotic Quest"
- "H.P. Lovecraft"