Melpomene is a collection of poetry, prose and short fiction named after the Greek Muse of Tragedy. The central theme of the anthology is the beauty found in sorrow and the darker sides of human nature, drawing on literary traditions such as the 'Damned Poets', the Decadent Movement, Symbolism/Surrealism and the Fin de siècle.

Melpomene is broken into four sections: Liber Veneficium (Book of Magic), Liber Maeroris (Book of Sorrow), Liber Fatum (Book of Fate), and Liber Mortuorum (Book of Death). Each section contains both new and classic literature dealing with these themes.

Containing works both old and new, Melpomene offers a prime selection of works on the melancholic side of existence, the transformational beauty of the esoteric, occult secrets hidden in verse, sorrow, doom and the inevitable grasp of death. Melpomene will haunt the reader with a dark and unearthly beauty that is both forbidden and forlorn...

Authors include:

Charles Baudelaire

Paul Verlaine

William Blake

Edgar Allan Poe

Emily Dickinson

Gwendolyn Taunton

Azsacra Zarathustra

Math Jones

Bernardo Sena

J. Karl Bogartte

C. B. Liddell

James WF Roberts

Christopher Pankhurst

H. A. Cledones

Tamas Nagyatadi Horvath

L. Alexander Carle

Bill Noble

Marg Howlet

Ivor Steven

Gene Banyard