Gray - Gray Skies of Dismal Dreams

GRAY SKIES OF DISMAL DREAMS

A Collection of Dark Poetry, Strange Tales and Lurid Limericks

By Gerri R. Gray

A HellBound Books Publishing LLC Book

Houston TX

A HellBound Books LLC

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Copyright 2018 by HellBound Books Publishing LLC

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Edited by Xtina Marie

Also by Gerri R. Gray:

The Amnesia Girl (HellBound Books, 2017)

Gray Skies of Dismal Dreams (HellBound Books, 2018)

The Graveyard Girls (HellBound Books, 2018)

Contributor to:

Ghost Hunting the Mohawk Valley (Black Cat Books, 2013)

Beautiful Tragedies (HellBound Books, 2017)

Demons, Devils & Denizens of Hell 2 (HellBound Books, 2017)

EconoClash Review (2018)

D eadman's Tome Cthulhu Christmas Special (2018)

Photography by Gerri R. Gray

Acknowledgements

2000 was first published in The Kindred Spirit (Issue 14, Winter 1987).

Beauty is the Beast was first published in Demons, Devils and Denizens of Hell, Volume 2 (HellBound Books, 2017).

"Dark Craving" was first published in Beautiful Tragedies (HellBound Books, 2017).

Electric Edie was first published in Aquarius Anthology (Golden Isis Press, 1986).

The Final Toast was first published in Thirteen (January 1987).

Freaks was first published in The Kindred Spirit (Issue 9, Fall 1986).

The Green-Eyed Monster was first published in EconoClash Review (2018).

Hieroglyphic Dreams was first published in Thirteen (July 1987). It was reprinted in The Plowman (Summer 1989).

I am She was first published in New Moon Rising (Vol. 3, No.3).

Lonely Wednesday was first published in Poetry Break Magazine (May/June 1991).

Magnum Opus in Decay was first published in Poetry Quarterly (Summer 2017).

Mausoleum 13 was first published in Deadmans Tome (December 2017).

"Memento Mori (Christmas Eve)" was first published in Beautiful Tragedies (HellBound Books, 2017).

The Possession was first published in Golden Isis (Spring 1986). It was reprinted in the book, Circle of Shadows by Gerina Dunwich (Golden Isis Press, 1990).

Premature Burial was first published in Golden Isis (Fall 1980). It was reprinted (in a slightly modified version) in Thirteen (July 1987) and in the book, A Witches Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural by Gerina Dunwich (New Page Books, 2002).

Priestess and Pentacle was first published under the title "Song of Rhiannon" in Golden Isis (Summer 1989).

Season of the Crone was first published in the book, The Pagan Book of Halloween by Gerina Dunwich (Penguin Compass, 2000). It was reprinted in A Witches Halloween (Provenance Press, 2007).

Shadowfest was first published in the book, The Pagan Book of Halloween by Gerina Dunwich (Penguin Compass, 2000). It was reprinted in the book, A Witches Halloween (Provenance Press, 2007).

"Silent Stranger" was first published in Golden Isis (Summer 1990).

"Strangers Among Us" was first published in Golden Isis (Fall 1986).

Sunday Afternoon was first published in Aquarius Anthology (Golden Isis Press, 1986).

"Today I Feel" was first published in Beautiful Tragedies (HellBound Books, 2017).

"Woman of the Woods" was first published in Golden Isis (Winter 1987).