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THE MURDERMOBILE

Oh my God. Over there. It’s
the solar-powered murdermobile
and it’s heading this way.
There’s no escaping those flailing
metal arms, dozens of them,
brandishing axes and machetes and
dripping syringes loaded with
ebola virus juice.

On top of the murdermobile,
next to the solar panels, is a cannon
that will fire an enraged clone
of Jack the Ripper at us. Yes,
we’ll be dead soon. That insidious
doomsday vehicle is now only
six inches away. Our fate is —

Hey, it stopped. That big cloud
is blocking the sun. Boy, what a
stupid machine. It doesn’t even
have a storage battery. Somebody
should fix that.
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That was a sample poem from....

EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH: Poems Of Dark Wonder by Mark McLaughlin

Available on Kindle/Kindle Unlimited or as a paperback.
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The poems in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH cover a wide range of dark fantasy and horror themes, including mythical creatures, strange love, dark magic, and bizarre twists of fate.

Poems collected in EMBRACE OF THE INTERNET WITCH include the following, as well as many more: “The Further Adventures Of Lizzie Borden,” “Poetry & Discipline,” “Lord Of The Canals,” “Ancient Egyptian Home Shopping Network,” “Pop-Up Grimoire,” “Ten Things To Feed An Infant Zombie, Should You Find Yourself Having To Care For One,” “Strange Survivals: A Mythos Update,” “Summer Blockbuster,” “Addressing The Global Symposium On Spontaneous Combustion,” “After Valiant Perseus Snicked Off Medusa’s Head,” “A Spell To Reverse An Unfortunate Turn Of Events,” and “Embrace Of The Internet Witch.”

McLaughlin is also the author of CRUSHED VELVET: POEMS OF HORROR & BEAUTY. Mark was one of the authors of THE GOSSAMER EYE, a collection that won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry category. His 2002 poetry collection, PROFESSOR LaGUNGO’S EXOTIC ARTIFACTS & ASSORTED MYSTIC COLLECTIBLES was a nominee for the 2003 Stoker Poetry Award.