Edited by Gerri Leen
Price: $14.99
Publication Date: 10 November 2016
Place of Publication: Asheville, North Carolina
Dimensions: 5 x 8
Pages: 386 pp
ISBN: 978-1539711483
Kali. The Morrigan. Set. The Cailleach. Medusa. Shiva. Melinoe. Odin. Herne. Ereshkigal.
They are the Dark Ones. They are frightening and strange and wrathful and odd. Reviled, ignored, feared, and misunderstood, they are the Deities and spirits and monsters of war and disease, savage justice, cataclysm, and death. But also of painful transformation, self-reflection, and enlightenment.
Stand in awe of them. Fear them.
Then go to them.
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Table of Contents
Dedication … 3
Introduction by Gerri Leen … 16
From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief by Rebecca Buchanan … 17
Dark Power, Power of the Dark
Dark Waters Rising by Barbara Ruth … 20
Fear of Dark Water & Other Gifts by Leni Hester … 21
Invocation of the Dark Goddess by Annie Herring … 26
To Hecate by Amanda Artemisia Forrester … 28
You Who Enter Here by Gail Wawrzyniak … 30
Lullaby by James B. Nicola … 32
Reverence for the Horrific
The Woman Drowned at Sea by Steven Klepetar … 36
Dances of the Moon by Shauna Aura Knight … 37
Hekate at the Crossroads by Sandi Leibowitz … 38
Words for Brigid the Poetess by Michael Routery … 40
Tribute to Set by Melia Brokaw … 41
The Adoration by Edward Ahern … 42
Counting Bones by Heather Kohser … 43
Springtime in South Texas by Hugo Esteban Rodríguez Castañeda … 44
Infernal Divinity by A.J. Huffman … 48
Unbroken by Jennifer Lawrence … 49
Dark Mothers
The Mother of Monsters by Cecilia Dockins … 54
Our Lady of the Serpent Skirt by Pegi Eyers … 56
She Is There by Heather Kohser … 57
Red Cloud by Sheikha A. … 60
Artemis in Darkness by Reilly Falanx … 62
Dionysus’ Wet-nurse by T.J. O’Hare … 63
Warding by Sheikha A. … 64
Macha’s Race by Morgan Daimler … 66
Regina by Gloria Steele-Hatten … 70
The Madres de la Muerte by Marie C. Lecrivain … 72
Violence, War, and Eternity
Celtic Priestess by Pegi Eyers … 76
A Terrible Beauty by Jenny Blackford … 77
Iphicles, On His Brother’s Return by Rebecca Buchanan … 84
Badb by Karen Storminger … 86
The Gaelic Chieftain by Neil Slevin … 87
After Moytura by Jennifer Lawrence … 89
Tables Turned
Birds and Wires by Barbara Ruth … 92
The Siren Hears Orpheus by Sandi Leibowitz … 93
Hephaestus by David W. Landrum … 95
Good Intentions by Gerri Leen … 97
Before Eve, According to Lilith by Ruth Sabath Rosenthal … 101
A Tale to Tell by Tahni J. Nikitins … 104
Delphyne by Steven Klepetar … 118
Venetian Blinds by Barbara Ruth … 120
Snake Food by Gwendolyn Kiste … 121
Demonized for Changing Times
Eve Tempted by the Serpent by William Blake … 130
Confusion 1 by James B. Nicola … 131
Cernunnos by Lee Clark Zumpe … 132
Above and Below by James B. Nicola … 133
Headless by Janine Canan … 134
Finding Medusa by Steven Klepetar … 136
Destruction is Life
Come Kali by Shannon Connor Winward … 140
Awakening by Janine Canan … 141
Kali (Naihati, India) … 142
Triune Puja by Galina Krasskova … 143
The Destroyer of Unreality by A.J. Huffman … 146
Inanna by Taqerisenu … 147
Consorting with Ereshkigal by Jennifer Bradpiece … 149
Hel by James B. Nicola … 151
Necessary Evils by Jennifer Lawrence … 153
Transformation
Blodeuwedd by Christopher Williams … 160
Flower Face by Vonnie Winslow Crist … 161
AJE by Gloria Steele-Hatten … 163
The Girl Who Spread Her Wings by Steven Klepetar … 164
Invocation: Light Descending on Roses by Shauna Aura Knight … 166
Nine Days by Steve Klepetar … 168
Shiva Drank Poison by A.J. Huffman … 170
The Dance of the Corpses of the Slain by A.J. Huffman … 171
A Changing Woman by Lana Bella … 172
Loving the Dangerous
Ninhursag by Pegi Eyers … 176
Ninhursag by Lee Clark Zumpe … 177
Rescue by Sheikha A. … 178
Water Signs and Lullabies by Gwendolyn Kiste … 179
Spirit of the Flood by Pegi Eyers … 184
Atibon Legba by Alicia Cole … 185
Marrying Spirit: A Song for Bawon Samedi by Alicia Cole … 187
Her Seaweed Hair by Steven Klepetar … 189
A Letter to Loki by Tahni J. Nikitins … 191
Maria’s Love Letter to Veludo by Gloria Steele-Hatten … 194
A Tigress-Demon Comes to Me by T.J. O’Hare … 196
Pomegranate by Leni Hester … 198
Devotion and Abandonment
Sigyn and Loki by Lucia Žilíková … 202
The Woman, the Prisoner, the Serpent and the Bowl by Taqerisenu … 203
Sigyn Dreams by Steven Klepetar … 206
Hekate in Waiting by Tahni J. Nikitins … 209
The Gardener by Sandi Leibowitz … 211
The Lonely King by Amanda Artemisia Forrester … 213
Unmasking by Sandi Leibowitz … 215
Fate, Judgment, and the Afterlife
Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti … 218
Proserpine by Steven Klepetar … 219
For Melinoe by Jennifer Lawrence … 220
Hecate, Queen of the Underworld by Heddy Johannesen … 224
For Persephone by Penn Kemp … 225
Eurydice by Steven Klepetar … 226
Lady Death by Alma Sinan … 228
otherwise known as Death by T.J. O’Hare … 233
Ammit Plays with Her Food by Emma Moser … 235
White Lady of Death by Melia Brokaw … 237
Last Journey by Jennifer Lawrence … 239
On the Way Down by Steven Klepetar … 242
Nergal and Ereshkigal by Lee Clark Zumpe … 243
Eriskegel Cries Out To Her Sister by Barbara Ruth … 245
Ironwood’s Daughter by Jennifer Lawrence … 247
Punishment, Absolution, and Reward
Urban Full Moon by Barbara Ruth … 254
The First Law by Rebecca Buchanan … 255
Huntress by Sandy Hiortdahl … 267
Absolution in Filth by Hugo Esteban Rodríguez Castañeda … 268
Arachne’s Faltered Ego by A.J. Huffman … 275
Hymn to The Erinyes I by Rebecca Buchanan … 276
Kallisto’s Gift, or, Artemis Black Bear by Reilly Falanx … 277
Medusa Speaks by T.J. O’Hare … 278
Song of Ceaseless Fury by Katherine McCormick … 279
The Old Ones
Herne by Jennifer Lawrence … 292
Erebus by David W. Landrum … 299
La Nuit by William-Adolphe Bouguereau … 302
Nyx by David W. Landrum … 303
Lilith, Mother of All Demons by T.J. O’Hare … 305
The Hanged Man by Sandi Leibowitz … 306
Wombyn, Womb-In by Gloria Steele-Hatten … 307
Chernobog, the Black God of the Western Slavs by T.J. O’Hare … 309
Pythia Speaks by Jenny Blackford … 310
Nerthus, aniconic Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess by T.J. O’Hare … 312
The Cailleach’s Kitchen by Michael Routery … 315
The road from the Holy Land by Leni Hester … 316
Vilde Chaya: Eve Beyond the Borders by Barbara Ruth … 319
Shalim, the Canaanite God of the Dusk by T.J. O’Hare … 322
Monothematic Delusion by Kilaya Ciriello … 323
Monstrously Beautiful, Beautiful Monsters
Circe Weaving by Sandi Leibowitz … 326
Lady of Drunkenness by Taqerisenu … 327
Smintheus by Steven Klepetar … 328
Prayer to Apollon II by Rebecca Buchanan … 329
Teju Jagua, The Cursed Firstborn by T.J. O’Hare … 330
Medusa’s Stare by Kris.K.G … 332
Firestone by Sheikha A. … 333
Belladonna by T.J. O’Hare … 335
Love, War, and Transformation by Gerri Leen … 337
Hymn to Melinoe IV by Rebecca Buchanan … 343
Old Bone by Sandi Leibowitz … 344
Brėkšta, Lithuanian Goddess Of Darkness And Dreams by T.J. O’Hare … 346
Gorgon Resurrection by Maggie Middleton … 347
The Viper by Stephanie Buosi … 348
The Weeknd Birds by Gloria Steele-Hatten … 352
Appendix A: Publishing Credits … 353
Appendix B: Our Contributors … 358
Appendix C: About Bibliotheca Alexandrina — Current Titles — Forthcoming Titles … 382
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