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Paranormal poetry


  • Poetry that features human characters that are often involved with the occult, witchcraft, spiritualism, psychic phenomena, vodou, etc., and interact with supernatural beings.

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    • Paranormal poetry

  • Variants

    • Occult poetry
    • Supernatural poetry
    • Supernaturalist poetry

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  • Sources

    • found: We are not alone and other paranormal poems, 1999.
    • found: Scytere, V. Antics : paranormal poems, 2008.
    • found: Supernatural poetry : a selection, 16th century to the 20th century, 1978.
    • found: Wiksup, R.P., II. The face on Mars is in the mirror, 2015:cover ("An original collection of occult poetry")
    • found: Rutherford, B. Whippoorwill Road : the supernatural poems of Brett Rutherford, ©1985.
    • found: Prosser, H.L. The Cymric and other occult poems, ©1976.
    • found: The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in anthologies, ©2007:subject index (Occult, The)
    • notfound: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry & poetics, ©2012;The new Princeton handbook of poetic terms, 1994;Myers, J. Dictionary of poetic terms, ©2003

  • General Notes

    • Poetry that features human characters that are often involved with the occult, witchcraft, spiritualism, psychic phenomena, vodou, etc., and interact with supernatural beings.

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  • Change Notes

    • 2018-05-15: new
    • 2018-08-03: revised

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