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Elevated, beautiful imagery vies with startling and fearful visions of dread for supremacy of tone. The titles themselves convey some of the wide range of subjects touched on: To an Unknown Enchantress, The Corpse of Beauty, Siren of the Dead, Vampiric Roses, and Decapitated Kiss, amongst so many others, exhibit an unearthly decadence and splendour not to be missed. In the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, George Sterling, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, and H. P. Lovecraft, \u003ci\u003eThe Crimson Tome\u003c\/i\u003e exhibits a technique of the sombre, which, paradoxically, is very enlightening. In such bardic horrors as these, the Muse of Monstrousness unveils her face and smiles wickedly.-Charles Lovecraft, P'rea Press \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis generous collection marks the appearance of a distinctive new voice in weird and fantastic verse. 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