Knygathin

Dear Knygathin,

How have you been? I remember that one of your suggestions once helped me a great deal. Would you mind checking my latest post in "The Melancholies of Baron von Pnaklendorf"? It relates to your recent comments about AI.

Best regards,

R

The Hippocampus Press edition of The Book of Jade is out now, and I have ordered and read a copy. Have you your own copy?

I was actually thinking of Barnitz yesterday. I don't have The Book of Jade, but have one of its poems as a Word file, "Danse Macabre".

P.S. There is also the macabre poetry of David Park Barnitz. I know you asked for animated corpses yet this comes close. I often find myself plunged into delirium when I read of pungent descriptions of rotting, worm-infested corpses, animated or not. Here is an example;

Corpse
A dead corpse crowned with a crown of gold
Sits thron'd beneath the sky's gigantic pall;
Gold garments from its rotted shoulders fall,
and regal purple robes funereal.

Before its face a vast processional
Goes by with offerings with its great knees cold;
Its soft hand doth a golden sceptre hold;
And in its flesh lie sleeping worms uproll'd.

They that pass ceaseless by see not at all;
They know not that beneath its garments' fold
Is but a corpse, rotted, and dead, and tall.

He is accurst that sees it dead and old;
He is accurst that sees: the white worms call
For him: for him have funeral dirges toll'd.

Knygathin, regarding your requests on horror tales featuring animated corpses, another name that springs to mind is Sydney J. Bounds. His tale The Pauper's Feast shews us an artist who paints his nightmare of dead children rising from the grave. The Animators features an astronaut stranded on Mars whilst being hunted by the reanimated cadavers of his colleagues and Plague Pit tells the tale of 'nano-machines' that transform persons into mad ghouls and the phenomenon is traced to an underground cavern where the skeletal remains of those who had gone before return to feast on the flesh of the living. I shall keep an eye out for more tales of the living dead.