Catacombs and Photographs by Brandy Schwan
The Grim Trixter is back, this time with a limited edition chapbook collection of more than 30 hauntingly evocative poems that explore everything from nursery rhymes to modern serial killers.
Print run is limited 100 copies, signed by the author and featuring cover art by Lindsay Archer.
Special introduction by Richard Doetsch, author of The Thieves of Heaven and The Thieves of Faith (Dell Books).
Read “Lizzie’s Pears” from Catacombs and Photographs (Virtual Book)
Read “Nothing to Gein” from Catacombs and Photographs (Virtual Book)
Blurbs:
“Like a vintage wine, there is a distinctive sense of age to Brandy Schwan’s poetry, as if she is not conjuring her words from thin air, rather transcribing it from the exotic whispers of a muse that is far older than she. And the voice of that muse, filtered through Schwan’s elegant and masterful pen, is engaging, hypnotic and addictive.”
—Kealan Patrick Burke, author of The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others, and Master of the Moors
“One might say, unequivocally, that it is impossible to improve upon perfection. Brandy Schwann has proven this old adage wrong with her new collection of poetry, Catacombs and Photographs. As she so deftly accomplished in her first collection Grim Trixter, Brandy brings readers a whole new feast of delights to tickle our minds with passages of dark love and images of regal want and loss. But what Brandy shows readers in Grim Trixter as an innate FLAIR for macabre verse, she displays an enhancement of her genius through a realized application of her talent. And what a talent Brandy is! She knows it, clearly, and now we all do as well. I urge any enthusiast of dark verse to relish in the beauties of Catacombs and Photographs.”
—Michael Laimo, author of Dead Souls and Fires Rising
Reviews:
“Like bits of stories stolen from a new generation of Grimm’s fairy tales, Schwan’s poems are often dark, lovely, and set to a cadence all their own. Featuring some of the best genre poetry available today Catacombs and Photographs is well worth the price and its visions are well worth the time readers will spend swept away.”
Dark Recesses Magazine
“The pieces in Catacombs and Photographs alternate between being darkly erotic and eerily child-like. I know that sounds like it could make for a creepy combination, and it does, but only in the best possible way. My favorite poems, were I to chose, would be “Mary Jane” and “Illness of Alice”.”
Niteblade.com
