The Poisoner's Garden and Others: Selected Poems

A Poisonous Flower, an Evil Doll, a Well of Memory and Dream Award-winning author of supernatural and gothic fiction, Douglas Clegg gathers 22 of his poems for the first time ever into The Poisoner’s Garden & Others, ranging from those with a dark gothic edge to rhymes of whimsy with strange twists. Plus a Foreword and Afterword by the author. Included in this Volume:The Poisoner’s GardenWhy My Doll is EvilThe Salt of Undone CollarsSwimming in UnderwearMedea in TransitMy Younger SelfToast to the DamnedCenote of DreamsOctober WindOn All Hallow’s EveSong of LupercaliaFor St. Valentine’s DayOn the Ides of MarchBirthdayWinter SolsticeThe Christmas SmiteElegy on a Dead Frog Found in Swimming PoolAt the Station in the RainStill LifeThat Hardscrabble Life You’re InAssam TeaThe Crime

About the Author

Douglas Clegg is the author of dozens of novels and short stories. He currently writes screenplays and works on new novels and stories he hopes to bring to readers in the near future. He lives with his husband on the coast of New England in a house surrounded by a garden of poisonous flowers and ghostly statues. He's written poetry, screenplays, novels, novellas and short stories. If you enjoy short stories, be sure to pick up his collections Night Asylum, The Poisoner's Garden, and The Nightmare Chronicles.

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