Dark Parchments: Midnight Curses and Verses

Dark Parchments: Midnight Curses and Verses

Frightening visions of abandonment, suicide, murder, and depression …nightmares populated by archetypes of spiritual evil, loneliness, death, mystery, and supernatural terror. These are the life-blood of haunted poet, Michael H. Hanson.

Take a step upon a dangerous carnival ride of the soul and brace yourself for jarring drops into shocking darkness. Dark Parchments offers up 85 chilling poems that crawl and slither through the fears staining the human psyche, making us shiver in the night.

Scared yet? …You will be.

“Where are today’s lyric poets? Where is today’s Shelley? [He] may well be in the pages of DARK PARCHMENTS: Midnight Curses and Verses, a brooding anthology exploring humanity’s awful heart, its crippling guilt and madness, its untoward dominion and unbridled power.”
— Janet Morris, Author and Creator of the Heroes in Hell and Sacred Band series

Michael H. Hanson is the Creator of the Sha’Daa shared-world, horror/fantasy anthology series currently consisting of Sha’Daa: Tales of The Apocalypse, Sha’Daa: Last Call, Sha’Daa: Pawns, Sha’Daa: Facets, and the soon to premiere Sha’Daa: Inked all published by Moondream Press (an imprint of Copper Dog Publishing LLC).
He has written three collections of poetry: Autumn Blush and Jubilant Whispers whose second editions will soon be published by Racket River Press (an imprint of Copper Dog Publishing LLC), and Dark Parchments.
In the upcoming year Michael will not only be overseeing the writing of the new Sha’Daa anthology Sha’Daa: Inked, but he is also overseeing the writing of the shared-world novel Not To Yield, a science fiction tale inspired by The Odyssey.
Michael is the Founder of the international writers club, The Fictioneers, a non-profit organization created in 2007 to encourage the writing of sci fi, fantasy, and horror, and the creative interaction of fledgling writers with more experienced professionals. The Fictioneers is loosely modeled after those fun children’s clubs of mid-20th Century radio fame (Captain Midnight, Little Orphan Annie, etc.)