Okay, Hayden's selection is definitely a contender.
Bereft
Where had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there for,
Holding open a restive door,
Looking down hill to a frothy shore?
Summer was past and the day was past.
Sombre clouds in the west were massed.
Out on the porch's sagging floor,
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly striking at my knee and missed.
Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret my be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
Excellent good list.
Why thank you! You'll note that I left off most of the YA books, anthologies, or non-fiction. And yes, I have lots of all three of those sub-categories.
Who else has read The Stress of Her Regard?
I love that book. I think I need to re-read it soon. And hey! Ties in with your poetry question!
Kim Newman! Go Kim Newman! Heavily Goth, with a touch of SteamPunk. Plus Genevieve, even if I did keep expecting her to have violet eyes.
And yes, I have lots of all three of those sub-categories.
What's on the non-fiction list?
Come away, O human child!
That was my favorite poem when I was a kid!
From sj's recommendation:
Acquainted with the Night
by: Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
O luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
That was my favorite poem when I was a kid!
Did you know that the Waterboys set it to music?
What's on the non-fiction list?
Piercing the Darkness, Katherine Ramsland
In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, Radu Florescu
Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, J. Gordon Melton
Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula
V is for Vampire: The A-Z Guide to Everything Undead, David J. Skal
