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Cover of The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems

The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems

Frank Coffman

First published 2019
Publisher Bold Venture Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art Agostino Veneziano
Pages xvi+254
Price $14.95
ISBN 9781790762651

Contains 266 poems.

Edited by Frank Coffman. Date and price from Amazon.com. Print on demand. Verification copy printed 2022-02-03. Cover art and interiorart credited on p.x.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Prelude Frank Coffman Poem
3 The Coven's Hornbook Frank Coffman Poem
4 A Meeting of the Covern Frank Coffman Poem
6 The House on Witch Hill Frank Coffman Poem
6 The Witches' Sabbats Frank Coffman Poem
7 A Warlock's Curse Frank Coffman Poem
7 Familiar Frank Coffman Poem
8 Heritage Frank Coffman Poem
14 Legacy Frank Coffman Poem
14 The Hanging Tree Frank Coffman Poem
15 The Witches' Rite at Beltane Frank Coffman Poem
16 A Desolate House Frank Coffman Poem
16 Solstice Sunset Frank Coffman Poem
17 Ragana Frank Coffman Poem
19 The Well of the Witch (Sonnet Sequence) Frank Coffman Poem
23 The Witch of the Woods Frank Coffman Poem
23 Those Days in Salem Town Frank Coffman Poem
24 The Cabin Just Outside Frank Coffman Poem
25 Lamia Frank Coffman Poem
26 The Cursed Recipe Frank Coffman Poem
27 Convert Frank Coffman Poem
27 Witching Well Frank Coffman Poem
28 Residual Murder Frank Coffman Poem
28 So They Say Frank Coffman Poem
31 Ghostku Frank Coffman Poem
32 Legend: Archer Avenue, Chicago Frank Coffman Poem
36 Poltergeist Frank Coffman Poem
36 Roommates Frank Coffman Poem
37 Beware This House Frank Coffman Poem
37 The Tune on the Wind Harp Frank Coffman Poem
38 The Discovery Frank Coffman Poem
39 A Haven for the Homeless Frank Coffman Poem
40 La Llorona—"The Weeping Woman" Frank Coffman Poem
41 Dance of the Damned Frank Coffman Poem
41 That Old House Frank Coffman Poem
42 The Summoner Frank Coffman Poem
44 A Little Knowledge Frank Coffman Poem
44 Terror at Twilight Frank Coffman Poem
45 The Scroll of Thoth Frank Coffman Poem
51 Forbidden Words Frank Coffman Poem
52 Forbidden Tome Frank Coffman Poem
52 Keyfinder Frank Coffman Poem
53 The Lines Frank Coffman Poem
54 The Master's Lesson for the Apprentice Mage Frank Coffman Poem
54 Wronged Sorceress Frank Coffman Poem
55 The Fateful Flower Frank Coffman Poem
56 Portals Frank Coffman Poem
56 Vengeance Frank Coffman Poem
57 Lycanthropos Frank Coffman Poem
57 The Condemned Frank Coffman Poem
58 Metamorphosis Frank Coffman Poem
59 Beware the Night! Frank Coffman Poem
60 Rougarou Frank Coffman Poem
60 The Hunt Frank Coffman Poem
61 Lycanthrope Moon Frank Coffman Poem
62 Unheeded Warning Frank Coffman Poem
63 Accursed Frank Coffman Poem
63 Aftertaste Frank Coffman Poem
64 The Last Eclogue Frank Coffman Poem
65 Transformation Frank Coffman Poem
66 A Page from a Werewolf's Diary Frank Coffman Poem
67 After Sunlight Fails Frank Coffman Poem
67 Hunter/Hunted Frank Coffman Poem
68 NecronomiCon Frank Coffman Poem
68 They Frank Coffman Poem
69 In Lost Carcosa Frank Coffman Poem
70 A Traveler to the City Frank Coffman Poem
71 Asylum Frank Coffman Poem
72 The Mission Frank Coffman Poem
73 Desolated Realm Frank Coffman Poem
74 Behind the Mask Frank Coffman Poem
75 Neohyte's Lesson Frank Coffman Poem
76 "But Thinking Makes It So" Frank Coffman Poem
76 Foiled Conjuring Frank Coffman Poem
77 It is Halloween Frank Coffman Poem
77 Rodine for Halloween Frank Coffman Poem
78 Samhain Redivivus Frank Coffman Poem
78 Sonnetku for Halloween Frank Coffman Poem
79 Sin-Eating Jack: A Ballad of Halloween Horror Frank Coffman Poem
82 The Offering Frank Coffman Poem
83 Samhain Night Frank Coffman Poem
83 The Harvest Frank Coffman Poem
84 Beneath the Crescent Moon Frank Coffman Poem
85 The Calling Frank Coffman Poem
86 The Gathering Frank Coffman Poem
87 Ennui Frank Coffman Poem
88 Dracul's Demesne: A Sonnet Sequence Frank Coffman Poem
91 The Waking Frank Coffman Poem
92 Mysterious Stranger Frank Coffman Poem
92 Transylvanian Legend Frank Coffman Poem
93 Castle of Dread Frank Coffman Poem
94 Rawhead/Bloody Bones Frank Coffman Poem
96 Song of the Ghouls Frank Coffman Poem
97 A Casualty of the Somme Frank Coffman Poem
97 Shaytan Frank Coffman Poem
97 The Beast of Bodmin Moor Frank Coffman Poem
99 The Thing in the Forest Frank Coffman Poem
100 Necrovore Frank Coffman Poem
101 The Forest of Horror Frank Coffman Poem
102 The Stalking Horror Frank Coffman Poem
105 Black Shuck: A Legend of East Anglia Frank Coffman Poem
105 The Hag of the Mists Frank Coffman Poem
106 Dire Wolves Frank Coffman Poem
106 Goat-Sucker Frank Coffman Poem
107 The Wight of the West Barrow Frank Coffman Poem
107 The Wood Frank Coffman Poem
108 A Soldier's Story Frank Coffman Poem
109 Night of the Skinwalker Frank Coffman Poem
109 Spawn of Iblis Frank Coffman Poem
110 The Corner of the Eye Frank Coffman Poem
111 Forms of Fear Frank Coffman Poem
111 Praeternaturalis Frank Coffman Poem
112 Revelation Frank Coffman Poem
112 Shadow Folk Frank Coffman Poem
113 Et Carpe Noctum Frank Coffman Poem
113 Her Secret Frank Coffman Poem
114 Rose Maddow Frank Coffman Poem
116 Hilltop House Frank Coffman Poem
116 The Devil's Dinner Party Frank Coffman Poem
117 Repeated Ritual Frank Coffman Poem
119 The Guide Frank Coffman Poem
119 Wrong Turn Frank Coffman Poem
120 Ring of Horror Frank Coffman Poem
120 The Secrets Frank Coffman Poem
122 Blood Bath Aftermath: Bathory's Fate Frank Coffman Poem
123 The Lake's Secret Frank Coffman Poem
124 Aokigahara Frank Coffman Poem
126 Greed's Reward Frank Coffman Poem
126 Saucy Jack Frank Coffman Poem
127 A Warning to the Curious Frank Coffman Poem
127 The Realms of Gold Frank Coffman Poem
128 Lost Atlantis Frank Coffman Poem
129 Portent of Doom Frank Coffman Poem
130 Thessalonike Frank Coffman Poem
131 The Crossing Frank Coffman Poem
131 Unwelcome Guest Frank Coffman Poem
132 Undine Frank Coffman Poem
133 Rolf's Ride Frank Coffman Poem
137 The Gift Frank Coffman Poem
138 A Challenge Met Frank Coffman Poem
138 Cambion Frank Coffman Poem
139 Fantasy's Greatest Gift Frank Coffman Poem
139 The Golden Knight and the Dragon Frank Coffman Poem
140 The Lost Lover's Message Frank Coffman Poem
141 Cwn Annwn Frank Coffman Poem
142 Gwyn Met the Devil Frank Coffman Poem
143 The Korrigans Frank Coffman Poem
143 The Tylwyth Teg Frank Coffman Poem
144 Stoned Troll Frank Coffman Poem
145 Sea Wife Frank Coffman Poem
146 Grettir's Battle with Glam Frank Coffman Poem
147 A Dangerous Quest Frank Coffman Poem
147 A Day May Come Frank Coffman Poem
148 Nosferatu Frank Coffman Poem
148 Weird Tales, The First Run Frank Coffman Poem
149 Bierce's "The Damned Thing" Frank Coffman Poem
149 The Awakening (Karloff in the Mummy) Frank Coffman Poem
150 Illinois poet, Carl drew pictures, The Frank Coffman Poem
151 Mary Shelley at the Cinema Frank Coffman Poem
151 Sorrow Singer (for Frederick Goddard Tuckerman) Frank Coffman Poem
152 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul Frank Coffman Poem
153 The Hound Frank Coffman Poem
154 Sijo Sequence (for Frederick J. Mayer) Frank Coffman Poem
155 POdE (an Ode to Poe) Frank Coffman Poem
156 The Carnacki Formula (for Wm. Hope Hodgson) Frank Coffman Poem
157 At the Gravesite Frank Coffman Poem
158 The Magic Portal (for Arthur Conan Doyle) Frank Coffman Poem
159 Poet of Lost Atlantis (for Donald Sydney-Fryer) Frank Coffman Poem
159 The Repetitive Client (for Arthur Conan Doyle) Frank Coffman Poem
160 The Bards (for Robert E. Howard) Frank Coffman Poem
161 Spectral Realms: An Hommage Frank Coffman Poem
161 Tasty Bugs Frank Coffman Poem
162 Decadence of Jade (for Park Barnitz) Frank Coffman Poem
163 The Last Transport Frank Coffman Poem
166 First Planting Frank Coffman Poem
166 Why Time Travel Will Be a Long Way Off Frank Coffman Poem
168 Adventure's Call Frank Coffman Poem
168 Five Scifaiku Frank Coffman Poem
169 Skiffy Frank Coffman Poem
170 Occult Detectiv(E) Frank Coffman Poem
170 The Choice Frank Coffman Poem
171 The Occult Detective Frank Coffman Poem
172 Shamus Frank Coffman Poem
174 Dr. Anaxagoras Venn Postulates on Occult Case Frank Coffman Poem
175 The Ways Poems Come to Me (Sequence of Poems) Frank Coffman Poem
182 The Sonneteers Frank Coffman Poem
183 Restrictions Frank Coffman Poem
183 Two Techniques for Poetic Revision Frank Coffman Poem
184 The Vine, The Wine, The Design Frank Coffman Poem
185 RE-Vision Frank Coffman Poem
186 Chariot of the Muse: On Writing Aerostics Frank Coffman Poem
186 On the Horrific Sonnet Frank Coffman Poem
187 Horror Poetics: Strength in Numbers Frank Coffman Poem
189 The Gist Is Found by Listing Frank Coffman Poem
189 The Quarrel Frank Coffman Poem
190 Experimentation Frank Coffman Poem
190 Worn Paths Are Best Followed Frank Coffman Poem
191 Singing in Chains Frank Coffman Poem
191 The Sci-Fi Sonnet Frank Coffman Poem
192 A Call to Weird Poets Frank Coffman Poem
192 A Little Square of Ink Frank Coffman Poem
193 Can Spring Be Far? Frank Coffman Poem
193 The Weird Poem: Some Thoughts Frank Coffman Poem
194 Ballade for the Would-Be Weird Poets Frank Coffman Poem
195 The Communicant Frank Coffman Poem
196 Poets of the Dark Frank Coffman Poem
198 Hark! The New Poets Frank Coffman Poem
199 "Four Score and Seven" Frank Coffman Poem
199 Formal Freedom Frank Coffman Poem
200 Content with Form [pun intended] Frank Coffman Poem
200 Though Some Will Say Frank Coffman Poem
201 De Forma Virtutum Frank Coffman Poem
203 The Charge of the Foot Brigade Frank Coffman Poem
204 Delay Frank Coffman Poem
204 The Poet's Challenge Frank Coffman Poem
205 Ars Timore (A Wreath of Sonnets) Frank Coffman Poem
212 Beyond the First Attempt Frank Coffman Poem
213 The Guardian of the Garden Frank Coffman Poem
214 A Trisengraf Frank Coffman Poem
214 Under the Skull of Ymir Frank Coffman Poem
215 The Flame and the Shadow Frank Coffman Poem
215 These Leaves Falling Frank Coffman Poem
216 The Game Frank Coffman Poem
216 The Race Frank Coffman Poem
217 Winter Again Frank Coffman Poem
218 Moonshadows Frank Coffman Poem
218 The Absinthe Drinker Frank Coffman Poem
219 Göbekli Tepi Frank Coffman Poem
219 I Like Things Old Frank Coffman Poem
220 A Poem Upon a Page Frank Coffman Poem
220 Meta-poesis Frank Coffman Poem
221 In Illinois Frank Coffman Poem
222 The Great Eisteddfod Frank Coffman Poem
223 Renderings of Some Quantrains from Khayyam's Rubaiyat Frank Coffman Poem
225 Credo Frank Coffman Poem
226 Glossary of Forms Frank Coffman Essay
245 Alphabetical Index of Titles uncredited Essay
121|121.1 Jack Frank Coffman Poem
121|121.2 FINIS Frank Coffman Poem
167|167.1 Neighbor Frank Coffman Poem
167|167.2 Daydream Frank Coffman Poem
ii Table of Contents (The Covin's Hornbook & Other Poems) uncredited Essay
x List of Illustrations (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) Frank Coffman Essay
xi Preface (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) Donald Sidney-Fryer Essay
xii Introduction (The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems) Frank Coffman Essay