“R. David Fulcher crafts a heady mix of connection that surges through life’s currents and eddies with an astute eye to capturing their underlying influences and meaning…The poems are delivered with the thrust and power of possibility, driven as much by emotion as philosophical perception.”
—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
HOWLING IN THE VOID is the latest poetry collection by R. David Fulcher. It blends myth, memory, and modern disquiet. This collection is an exploration into grief, desire, aging, love, and disruption told through poems that toggle between haunted interiors and landscapes that vastly differ. Ancient gods linger beside everyday moments; beauty and terror exist in a fragile, uneasy balance. At once intimate and cosmic, these poems confront what it means to feel deeply in a reality that offers no guarantee of resolution. Fulcher’s voice is lyrical, unflinching, and grounded in the traditions of mythic and speculative poetry while remaining uniquely his own. HOWLING INTO THE VOID is for those souls willing to step into a shadow world—where the howl itself becomes an act of defiance.
A 2025 HALLOWEEN BOOK FESTIVAL WINNER!
Introducing ASTEROID 6 AND OTHER TALES OF COSMIC HORROR! The companion book to R. David Fulcher’s 2023 indie horror hit, THE PUMPKIN KING AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR!
CALIFORNIA BOOK WATCH writes:
“Asteroid 6 and Other Tales of Cosmic Horror is not only just as powerful as Fulcher’s The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror, but continues to inflate the scenarios and definitions of horror and terror in a way that will delight libraries and readers seeking novel, creative approaches to expanding and exploring the genre’s boundaries. Asteroid 6 and Other Tales of Cosmic Horror should be in any definitive modern horror collection.”
In this newest collection, Fulcher explores concepts of the insignificance of human existence, terror of the unknowable and incomprehensible, and more motifs found in edlritch horror. Fulcher draws his influence from a wide assortment of authors ranging from Poe and Fritz Leiber to Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
The title story features an astronaut named Jones who, while on asteroid-clearing duty, crash lands onto a massive asteroid where he is drawn to an alien monolith and discovering an ancient race trapped in stasis. Does he dare set it free?
Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind collection!
Gravelight is pleased to present the first volume in a two-book series collecting the horror fiction of R. David Fulcher!
THE PUMPKIN KING AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR offers up 20 works by Fulcher, each updated and revised by the author. Each tale has been fully revised by the author, making these the definitive versions of the stories.
The collection Includes
- Eulogy to E.A. Poe
- Marienburg Castle
- The Pumpkin King
- Heavenly Strains
- A Matter of Taste
- My Days With Mahalia
- A Night Out With Mr. Bones
- Merry Are We of the Lake
- The Night Flyer
- Pumpkin Seed Spit
- A Night for Animals
- The Man Next Door
- Extra! Extra!
- The Flight Dummy
- For the Children
- The Watcher’s Web
- Dreaming, The Copper City
- The Huntress
- The Faerie Lights
- The October Man
Features a wrap-around cover and contemporary design. Perfect for Halloween or dark, rainy nights.
R. David Fulcher, Writer 