I am, yet again, unnaturally excited to announce that one of my
poems, “Ghosts of 1816”, was recently published in Spectral Realms
(Hippocampus Press) edited by S.T. Joshi.
This particular poem holds a rather special place in my heart for it was
inspired by a long-held obsession of mine:
Frankenstein and the “Haunted Summer” of 1816. Mary Shelley’s deliciously Gothic novel and
the supposed laudanum- and ghost-story-induced madness that took place within
the opulent walls of the Villa Diodati during that year without a summer has
long fascinated me and piqued my imagination with bizarre and nightmarish
visions—it was only a matter of time before I would paint the malefic shadows
of my imagination within a poem.
