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    Look/Don't Look
    Look/Don't Look
    Look/Don't Look
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    Look/Don't Look

    By Carl Bettis

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    Look/Don't Look features poetry of the eerie and the eldritch, ranging from the creepy to the comic to the thoughtful. Read fables from Innsmouth, ponder the afterlife of clothing, hunt ghosts with Keats and Shelley, and chill your heart (or warm it, if you're twisted enough) with a serial killer's verse to his latest victim.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaracabe Things
    Release dateOct 25, 2014
    ISBN9781310698798
    Look/Don't Look
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    Carl Bettis

    Carl Bettis is a software developer and writer in Kansas City, Missouri, where he lives with his wife, their daughter, and a variable number of pets. His works have appeared in such periodicals as Thorny Locust, Daily Science Fiction, Paper + Ink and I-70 Review, as well as the anthologies Chance of a Ghost, 365 Days, 365 Days: Vol. 2, Quick Shivers from the Midwest and The Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers. He is an associate editor for The Same literary magazine and is a member of the Riverfront Readings Committee.

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      Look/Don't Look - Carl Bettis

      Look/Don’t Look

      Poems of Fear and the Fantastic

      by Carl Bettis

      Copyright 2014 by Carl Bettis

      Distributed by Smashwords

      A Slapdash Hackery Factory publication

      This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

      Many thanks to Anne Calvert for her excellent advice and indispensable editorial assistance.

      "I conjure monsters to awaken

      nightmares from which I can awaken."

      – Basil Cartryte, Ghasts and Gaunts

      Contents

      Damnation

      Romantic Quest

      On the Crow

      Blessed Damnation

      Drinking in Innsmouth

      Innsmouth Fairy Tale

      Another Charm

      Dry Magic

      Nightgown

      A Frequent Folly

      Keeping

      At Full

      Selections from Cthulhuku

      Induction

      The Ship of Souls and Bodies

      On Diane H.

      Boundary Issues

      Dust

      She’s Watching Over You

      Earth’s Tale

      Being Haunted

      Oh Inquisitive Friend

      The Writers of the Bible Knew

      Consolation for the

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