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This, my sixteenth volume of narrative poems, is what you might call a mixed bag. If you bought this in a lolly shop, you would find the usual sickly pink sugary ones, the sour teddies, and the chocolate smoothies. But wriggling around the bottom of the bag would be some that defied description, black and glutinous, with names like dark dreams and shadowy freakshows. Unless you held on tightly these would seek to escape from the bag and go for...

Two RAAF Neptunes take off for Hawaii in November 1968, intending to stop at Fiji and Canton Atoll along the way. They never arrive. Six months later the only two survivors from the two crews are picked up in an inflatable dinghy in the Pacific. The story they have to tell is that of a horror flight in which the Officer in Charge demonstrates his incompetency by ordering a Navex at night while maintaining radio silence. After dealing with a sp...

Once again this teller of tales has assembled a collection, and what a collection! Included here is his 1, 000th Poem entitled 'The Terror', a look back into childhood paranoia. But there is humour here as well, and riveting scenes of horror that will make your hair stand on end, (if you have any left, which he doesn't). There are sixty-four different scenarios here that will keep your imagination titivated, and your heart perpetually halted i...

Perhaps your life is humdrum, banal or unimaginative. On your return from the daily ritual, you have nothing exciting to shake off that feeling of ennui. Well you have now, once you've taken the plunge, and purchased this book. Whole new worlds will open before your eyes, characters and situations will enthrall and delight you. Improbable scenarios will light up your mind, and engage your imagination. Too good to be true? Not at all. These wor...

The thirty four poems contained in this volume are reflective of what I observed in China between September 2005 and December 2006. Twenty three of them were written in China during that period, the others after returning to Australia, and on reflection. The latter poems are fictional narratives, designed to entertain the reader. I wanted to collect them together in one edition so they could be read as a whole, rather than being interspersed w...

The characters in these stories may well haunt your sleeping hours, once you have given yourself up to them, have absorbed their eccentricities and the fables I engineered for them. They do not live as you and I live. Not for them the mundane and repetitive boredom of tiny lives, lived in quiet desperation in the mean streets of our cities. They mainly survive on the edge of their own particular darkness, the bleak forces of nature and unnatur...

The alternative worlds of poet David Lewis Paget, rendered in perfect rhyme and metre for the purist. These are narrative poems, short stories in verse, to be read in darkened rooms by candlelight, or around a camp fire. Guaranteed to give the odd delicious shudder as each plot unfolds. The richness and detail of these tales will amaze you. Reviewers have said that this Poet's work is compulsive reading, almost addictive. They range from Media...

Alex Prittik has everything. A private island, three houses, a bimbo wife, a successful business and $23, 000, 000 in the bank. He also has 8 weeks to live. He's determined not to be around when the worst of the pain hits, but then he meets Tina, and discovers that there is truth in the old saying that no matter how dire your circumstances are, there is always someone worse off than you. He enters into an unlikely romance, and stages a massive...

The weird, wonderful and bizarre tales from Australia's foremost narrative poet are contained in these pages. You are invited to wander through Warlock Park and enjoy the out of world experiences of others, without becoming more than slightly mentally tainted yourself. I have been assured that on closing this book you will return to your own mundane world, leaving only the flavour of an intense experience behind, still nestled within these pag...

When James Coverleigh builds a huge mausoleum called 'Valhalla', and attempts to persuade people to give up the burial rite for a permanent place on a shelf, he stimulates the opposition into pursuing their own ideas of new-style burial. Between them they manage to take the dignity out of dying, and turn the state of death into a circus. This is a bizarre foray into the unknown, an irreverent romp through those rituals and institutions we've a...

Once more a collection of 70 narrative poems, with disparate themes, something, in fact, for everybody. This is my fifteenth collection, beginning with Timepieces, which was largely Gothic, to the present collection which are rather less bloodthirsty than those early volumes. I like to think of most of the subject material as bizarre these days, more subtle perhaps, but just as interesting in their wayward themes. The fact that most of them ar...

Welcome to Goblin Dell, the repository for yet another collection of narrative poems from my pen, the thirteenth. Within this colourful Dell are the imaginative streams of an alternative world, a world that we all visualise at times if only to escape the one we're in. This new world of ours doesn't adhere to the physical laws, rules and regulations that presently bind us. It transcends all that, being beholden only to the limits of our imagina...

Three women co-exist uneasily together at Heaven's Ridge, in the far north of South Australia. The legatees of their Great-Great Grandfather Theodore Schuman, their one pursuit in life is to discover the long lost fortune of their mining forefather. Over 120 years earlier he had gone to South Africa, with a view to dealing in diamonds at the great Kimberley mine. His trip ended badly with his body being returned to South Australia in a barrel ...

Edgar Allan Poe is considered by many to be the premier writer of the macabre, both in story and in poetry. Yet it is my pleasure to introduce to you the man who continues where Poe left off. David Lewis Paget is an accomplished Australian Poet. His narrative poems are of such high quality both in rhyme and meter that there are few his equal. Over the past forty years or more, David Lewis Paget has honed his skill as a Narrative Poet to such a...

This is the latest offering from the Master of the Macabre, 60 Gothic Narratives by Australian Poet David Lewis Paget. If you haven't come across these before, you're missing out. Guaranteed to raise those fine hairs on the back of your neck, especially if you're reading at night, in a quiet gloomy house. You will find yourself getting up to double lock your doors and windows once you've sampled a few of these. Composed in perfect rhyme and me...

This book contains forty years of poetry, from the very earliest beginnings, to the more accomplished work of later years. There was a lot of experimentation in those early years, feeling my way, so to speak. The one constant is rhyme and metre. Even in the very few poems that may look as if they're free form, the metre is there, as is the rhyme. It is the very basis of what I believe poetry to be. At 450 pages, there is an entire life's work ...

Any motorist, stopping for petrol in any South Australian country town, would expect to be welcomed with open arms - WRONG! - Any stranger, in any South Australian country town, could expect full protection from the police - WRONG! - Any woman, visiting a friend at night, in any South Australian country town, could expect to get home again in one piece - WRONG! - Not if that town is DARK HARBOUR! JUST ASK DAMIEN CURTIS! When he pulls in to Dar...

Beware! Do not read this book unless you are mentally stable and physically fit. The author and publisher accept no responsibility for medical bills relating to ruptured spleens, incontinent bladders or psychiatric disorders arising as a result of ingesting the contents of these pages. This is not a novel, it is a black comedy, a series of stories with a common backdrop, the streets and swamps of Wudgi Crossing. This tiny South Australian town...

Each tale within these pages has unraveled slowly from some tightly rolled secret hoard, stored safely up in the dark locker of an over-active imagination. They descended to pen and keyboard as tiny slivers of plot, character, background, lines, rhymes, imagery and shivery. I was the lucky one chosen to put all those pieces together in some comprehensible and entertaining fashion, that in some future time you, the reader, might pick up this bo...