Pulp magazines saw their heyday from the 1920s through the 1950s, appealing to an audience that included men and women: A quarter of the readers of
Weird Tales
were women. Across its 30-year publishing history, a third of its writers were women, too.
Many of those names are lost today, and those pieces have been forgotten-until now.
Requiem for a Siren
is the first anthology devoted to the women poets of the pulps. These 101 poems by 47 women first appeared in magazines like
and
Amazing Stories
. The mothers and godmothers of the genre, these writers penned striking lyrics of death, monsters, ghosts, and nightmares.
You may recognize some of the names-Mary Elizabeth Counselmen, Dorothy Quick, and Leah Bodine Drake are three of the more well-known included here. Hopefully, you'll discover some new-to-you favorites, too, as you page through these poems with your
hot uhallowed lust for beauty
. Happy haunting.