The Fourth Macabre MEGAPACK® by Frank Belknap Long & J. N. Williamson & George T. Wetzel & Richard Wilson

Author:Frank Belknap Long & J. N. Williamson & George T. Wetzel & Richard Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, dark, fantasy, short stories, classic
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2017-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

HYMENEAL, by Manly Banister (poem)

Originally published in The Nekromantikon #3, 1950, under the pseudonym “Val Seanne.”

Gray is the dusk of my wedding day…

And the keen wind whistles

Shrill, sharp, and cold

Upon the plains of Yar.

The tundra rustles slyly

To the tread of wedding guests…

Rustle, rustle, teem and bustle…

By the light of a pale north star—

Aye, the guests are all a-gathered;

The wedding feast awaits…

The groom alone still lacketh;

We have left the door adjar.

“Whispering, stirring, stridulating guests—

O, Were-folk here assembled—

Tell me true, his journey endeth

In some gloomy land afar!”

“Nay, fair bride; the bridegroom cometh.

Hear his step outside the door!”

He comes, He comes!… O God, He comes!

My lord, my groom…is Death’s grim avatar!

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