In Mayan Splendor

In Mayan Splendor
Jacket illustration by Stephen E. Fabian for In Mayan Splendor
AuthorFrank Belknap Long
IllustratorStephen E. Fabian
Cover artistStephen E. Fabian
LanguageEnglish
Genrepoetry
PublisherArkham House
Publication date
1977
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pagesx, 66 pp
ISBN0-87054-080-7
OCLC3589038
811/.5/2
LC ClassPS3523.O465 I5

In Mayan Splendor is a collection of poems by Frank Belknap Long. It was released in 1977 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,947 copies. The book is illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian and contains the complete contents of Long's earlier verse collections, A Man from Genoa (1926) and The Goblin Tower (1935) plus additional poems.

Contents

In Mayan Splendor contains the following poems:

  1. "In Mayan Splendor"
  2. "A Knight of La Mancha"
  3. "Sonnet"
  4. "A Man from Genoa"
  5. "Advice"
  6. "Pirate-Men"
  7. "On Icy Kinarth"
  8. "The Magi"
  9. "On Reading Arthur Machen"
  10. "Stallions of the Moon"
  11. "In Hospital"
  12. "Ballad of St. Anthony"
  13. "The White People"
  14. "An Old Tale Retold"
  15. "Prediction"
  16. "The Rebel"
  17. "Two Stanzas for Master François Villon"
  18. "The Goblin Tower"
  19. "West Indies"
  20. "The Hashish-Eater"
  21. "When We Have Seen"
  22. "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville"
  23. "Manhattan Skyline & W.W."
  24. "The Horror on Dagoth Wold"
  25. "In the Garden of Eros"
  26. "The Prophet"
  27. "Night-Trees"
  28. "Florence"
  29. "When Chaugnar Wakes"
  30. "In Antique Mood"
  31. "The Abominable Snow Men"
  32. "A Sonnet for Seamen"
  33. "Ballad of Mary Magdalene"
  34. "Great Ashtoreth"
  35. "Subway"
  36. "An Old Wife Speaketh It"
  37. "A Time Will Come"
  38. "The Inland Sea"
  39. "Exotic Quest"
  40. "H.P. Lovecraft"

References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 118–119. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 52.
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 142–143. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 124. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.