Adam BolivarADAM BOLIVAR is a poet of dark fantasy, a writer of weird fiction, and a marionette playwright with a particular interest in balladry and "Jack" tales-a folkloric tradition centered on a trickster-hero that dates back to medieval times and was presered in isolated reaches of the Appalachian Mountains. His poetry has appeared in the pages of such publications as Spectral Realms and Black Wings of Cthulhu. "The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner," his ballad combining Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," won a Rhysling Award for long-form poetry. His collection of weird balladry and Jack tales, The Lay of Old Hex, was published by Hippocampus Press in 2017 and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. His collection of linked stories, The Ettinfell of Beacon Hill: Gothic Tales of Boston, was released in in 2021 by Jackanapes Press. His second collection of poetry, Ballads for the Witching Hour, is forthcoming from Hippocampus Press in 2022. Adam has written and performed in several original marionette plays performed by puppet troupes in Boston, Berkeley, Portland and Salem. A native of gambrel-roofed Boston, Adam Bolivar currently resides in the gloomy dreamlands of Portland, Oregon with his beloved wife and golden-haired son. Read More Read Less