John Glover

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Writer, poet, librarian, unhallowed revenant. Comments mine, not my employer’s.

Movie poster for the upcoming film WERWULF
sara teasdale’s poem “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Harvest Me Like One Of Your Antique Books Why preserve the rhythms of a mind when buttons exist? For poetry, press red, shade of trampled hearts. For novels, find the one that’s blue as a hero newly dead. Machines grow hungry: feed them iron ink, chain-lined paper, stories built from days of toil and boredom. (Gatekept dreams will shrink a wallet, unlike the slop that clankers praise.) Congested shelves can breathe at last, their freight predestined for some better place, where coy truth is barely a token. Musty weight departs, mere offal for the worms to enjoy. And now we have books—The Codex On Demand!— with vistas fixed, unable to expand. — John T. Glover
got-damn Reese’s peanut butter cups in Halloween drag in dang July, on a shelf at CVS
Painting of a tower of people against a cloudy background — “Ladder No. 2”
masters of the universe movie poster, featuring he-man reaching for a sword on his back
movie poster for the mandalorian and grogu
Cover of first edition of Aldiss' novel HOTHOUSE. Blue background, green foliage and green/white/yellow gem-like structures. Two humanoid figures in the lower right.
Black text on a white background, featuring a poem "Space Burial" Where nothing holds us, where long light Can barely stretch, we leave you, friend. From this steel shell you take your flight Without the aid of steel or air, Or need of them. So, weightless, end All waiting, hope or care. Tomorrow on a million moons A million suns will rise—on you They shine forever; no cocoons Of shadow shall eclipse your ride, No worms shall eat your glory through, Nor earth devour your pride. We spring from earth, but in these lanes Of vacancy forget our source. New worlds lie yonder!—So on vanes Of fire we flash there. You are gone, Friend; take with you our brief remorse. We mourn but we go on. Brian W. Aldiss
B&W portrait of the poet Sara Teasdale, seated and looking to her right.
pin saying “I ❤️ GURGI” in red text, with line drawing of the doglike creature Gurgi
Prints with text taken from Edgar Kunz's "Good Deal" and Devon Walker-Figueroa's "My Invention", distributed at the 9 February 2026 Visiting Writers Series reading at VCU
Load screen for the 1999 game PLANESCAPE: TORMENT
Multiple flavors/colors of Lindt Lindor truffles in wrappers in a pile
Captain Avatar from the old Star Blazers anime, a white-bearded man wearing a captain’s hat
Laura Passin’s poetry collection WE THE DESTROYERS next to Courtney LeBlanc’s poetry collection EXQUISITE BLOODY BEATING HEART on a red blanket
humorous paired photos of the same rabbit, indicating that rabbits constantly shed
Sam Neill wearing hospital clothes covered in hand drawn crosses, sitting in an empty movie theater—scene from IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
Photo of five cast members from SISTER BONIFACE, on a road in an English village
Flyer for VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
Two thieves running across a plain during the Hyborian age
Cover of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, featuring Ignatius Reilly against a brick wall, holding a hot dog and a cursed Edged Weapon Of Picaresque Insulting
Cover of Alma Katsu's novel FIEND, featuring a dark house in a city, cloud overhead, with an overall red-to-blue gradient
NO SMALL GIFT, by Jennifer Franklin, face-out on a bookshelf
promotional graphic for the 23rd annual James River Writers Conference
Longenbach’s THE POETIC LINE, a book sitting on a shelf face-up
Ogden Jahad eye from HELLBOY (2004
Stills from the film MAD LOVE, including Frances Drake and her waxen copy, and a photo of. Man in a dark cloak and hat and sunglasses with metallic hands
Copy of DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP sitting on a cushion
Bernie meme saying “I am once again asking Hollywood to remake the duds, not the bangers”
New novel THE BEWITCHING from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, on a bookshelf
Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing photographed in black and white in a 2 x 2 arrangement
Charlie the robot from scooby doo season one
Nick Mamatas’ anthology 120 MURDERS, sitting face-out on a shelf among other anthologies
Henry Lien’s SPRING, SUMMER, ASTEROID, BIRD: THE ART OF EASTERN STORYTELLING, on a counter at an airport
Book display at an airport, featuring Amal El-Mohtar’s THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, among others
One of the vampire wives from BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA
Text of a poem: Do One Thing to Save The World Five calls are easy, just embed a telephone set where anxiety lies in wait. No data can be leaked to the machine—oh no, I typed this where **** and **** and ****** and ***** (and even ********) might see it. One email will save Gaza, Social Security, the white rhino, and the and-thes. All these pains in my luxury heart: like to shield a life, share your story with the senator’s voicemail, which his aide has not emptied. Better some slight hope than idling while they build camps, cancel rights, and determine who is no longer worth remembering. Oh God, my lunch is over, and America is still falling all over itself, trying to strangle its dreams. —John T. Glover
The collected poems of Sylvia Plath, in paperback, on a red blanket
Prehistoric man riding on a mammoth
Flyer for JRW event, text in skeets
Full TOC of FUNGOS
Cover of FUNGOS
Four versions of the tower tarot card
Black and white photo of author Ellis Avery
Fortune cookie fortune on a beige tablecloth reading “Your determination will lead to success in August”
Multiple issues of WEIRD TALES laid out, all featuring Tanith Lee among their table of contents
The Stygian witches from CLASH OF THE TITANS
A fountain pen ink from Diamine named "Marley," in a little box in front of their 2025 Invent Calendar, a cardboard box with a winter scene and 25 doors concealing ink samples, on a white mantel.
Black and white photo of Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Vincent Price
A rabbit in an alley in Richmond, Virginia, crouched on a gravel-covered track
Cover of Waterstones special edition of Haruki Murakami’s THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS
The Goblin Market, by Hilda Koe, 1895 -- goblins offering fruit
the Green Goblin, from the 2002 Spider-Man movie
Orcs in battle in the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies
Old goblin frog-rider miniatures from Warhammer
Arthur Rackham illustration for the Christina Rossetti poem "Goblin Market"
a selection of muted words, including "tankie" and "tankini"