{"product_id":"the-funeral-colony-oliver-sheppard-9798838603227","title":"The Funeral Colony","description":"In this follow-up to his \u003ci\u003eThirteen Nocturnes\u003c\/i\u003e collection of verse, acclaimed Texas poet Oliver Sheppard presents \u003ci\u003eThe Funeral Colony\u003c\/i\u003e, a 330-page descent into the Gothic imagination where disease, desire, and death converge. These poems transform the clinical language of contagion into visceral explorations of body horror, drawing from medieval plague chronicles, vampire folklore, and the philosophical extremes of de Sade, Artaud, and Ligotti to create a uniquely unsettling portrait of humanity stripped bare by pestilence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Funeral Colony\u003c\/i\u003e confronts what it means to be human when humanity itself becomes the disease. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for Oliver Sheppard's previous collection of verse, \u003ci\u003eThirteen Nocturnes\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Oliver Sheppard is a major new voice in the genre of macabre poetry. \u003ci\u003eThirteen Nocturnes \u003c\/i\u003edoes in fact announce a 'cold poetics of the macabre in the new dark age of the Anthropocene, ' emphasis on that 'po, ' if not Poe himself.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Donald Sidney-Fryer, \u003ci\u003eSpectral Realms\u003c\/i\u003e (Winter 2021) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sheppard's \u003ci\u003eThirteen Nocturnes\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent collection of mostly Gothic poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Ellen Datlow, \u003ci\u003eBest Horror of the Year, \u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 11 (2019) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThirteen Nocturnes\u003c\/i\u003e absolutely blew me away. Sheppard's attention to the music of language, as well as his visceral images, make this a haunting collection of contemporary poetry that has clearly come out of the graveyard, Gothic, and cosmic horror traditions.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Jo Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen the Night Bells Ring\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Muse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Sheppard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798838603227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.74d","brand":"Oliver Sheppard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47427790209279,"sku":"9798838603227","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32aa467e-adf3-4fa4-8876-57862b938562.jpg?v=1761581614","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-funeral-colony-oliver-sheppard-9798838603227","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}