Carl Bettis: 3 books

Look/Don't Look features poetry of the eerie and the eldritch, ranging from the creepy to the comic to the thoughtful. Read fables from Innsmouth, ponder the afterlife of clothing, hunt ghosts with Keats and Shelley, and chill your heart (or warm it, if you're twisted enough) with a serial killer's verse to his latest victim.

Cthulhu-ku is an illustrated collection of 17-syllable epigrams inspired by the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Most assume some familiarity with the Cthulhu Mythos. If you understand and like the following example, this book will probably appeal to you. "The sad end of her / show biz career: crowned the next / Pickman's Top Model."

Poems of politics and protest from a liberal/progessive viewpoint, written before, during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "Every library needs an artillery shell lamp. / Not because books are weapons. (But sometimes they are.) / No. Because, let authors write books on books on books, / the shells always come in. No scribe / will scribble the savage out of us."