Michael R. Collings

The darkness is always there, lurking in the corners, skulking behind the shelves, waiting under the stairs, sleeping between the stars. But there is always hope, a light to show the way Michael R. Collings delves into modern and historical horror in his essays; explores the edges of sanity and reality in his fiction; and visits far shores, distant planets, and the hapless programmer next door in his poetic musings. Join the three-time Bram Stoker nominee and World Horror Convention Grand Master in this original collection of new and older works. Embark on your winding journey for hope as you tread cautiously down the dark and narrow way... In the Haunting Darkness.

In WORDS WORDS WORDS: POEMS, poet, critic, and scholar Michael R. Collings explored the histories of more than 150 words, deftly translating their quirks and twists into poetry and verse. Now, in WORDS WORDS WORDS 2: THE DARKER SIDE, he performs the same transformation on over 100 more, this time focusing on more shadowed possibilities. Included is a Nebula nominee and Rhysling Award Finalist, "The Last Pastoral," in the original English and in a Klingon translation--among the first translations of a classically-modeled pastoral into the language.

Words words words--the foundations of our perceptions, our understanding, our realities. This volume examines over 150 words using the lens of poetry--poems about the words, based on the words, obliquely reflecting the words. Ranging from humorous to serious, from short to lengthy, from personal to communal, they attempt to suggest the awe and mystery of words through their histories.

This collection of poems considers the physical, spiritual, and emotional connections between the Temple and the universe that surrounds us.

Birds...everywhere present in our lives...often overlooked...sometimes studied for their own sakes. They are a long-lived subgroup, extending from the times of the dinosaurs to the present day. They present themselves in extremes of coloration and habitats, in endearing habits and unappealing situations. In well over a hundred pages of verse-ranging from serious and formal to light-hearted and casual-Michael R. Collings provides glimpses into the secret...and not-so-secret...lives of avians as they intersect ours. Michael R. Collings is the World Horror Conventions 2016 Grand Master (but relax, there is little of horror in these poems); a multiple-Bram Stoker Award(R) nominee for poetry by the Horror Writers Association, and author of over two dozen collections of verse, ranging from Matrix: Autobiographical Poems, to The State of the disUnion, to Many Waters: Poems of the Ordinary and the Outr .

The verses in MANY WATERS explore the mysteries of water. From the ordinary to the outr , from the sheer exhilaration of a snowball fight to the darkest secrets of forbidden pools....

Michaelbrent Collings is the author of nearly a score of novels, including multiple Amazon and Kindle bestsellers. THE BILLY SAGA is a bestselling young-adult fantasy, enjoyable for both younger readers and adult readers. MICHAELBRENT COLLINGS' THE BILLY SAGA, is a book-length study of key elements, theme, and characters in the SAGA, making connections between Collings' highly inventive re-thinking of the Arthurian tales and the mindset of the times that produced them by tracing uses of Powers, Elements, and Weapons of Power.