A glimmering gate of wonder....

During the summer of 1935, H. P. Lovecraft collaborated with his Florida friend, Robert Barlow, on the typesetting of a small collection of verse by Frank Belknap Long entitled The Goblin Tower. This volume and its 1926 predecessor, A Man from Genoa have become collector's editions of fabulous rarity, and yet contain poems which received great contemporary acclaim from such writers as Arthur Machen, George Sterling, and John Masefield.

In Mayan Splendor presents the early poetry of Frank Belknap Long in a new edition that also includes the author's memorial sonnet to H. P. Lovecraft, reprinted from the June 1938 issue of Weird Tales. Here once again are the fanciful, passionate, wondrously ecstatic statements of a young romantic dreamer, a poet intoxicated by the haunting loveliness and iridescent mystery of human existence. From the eerie desolation of "The Inland Sea" to the rapturous delirium of "Stallions of the Moon," these poems have been conceived in a frenzy of aesthetic exaltation and rank withal among the most compelling artistic achievements by this famous author.

Frank Belknap Long has remarked of his early work that, "There are visions of strangeness and beauty which come to us when we are quite young and remain with us until we are too old to dream. They are visions we like to share." Herewith, through the pages of In Mayan Splendor, a vision shared.