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Android Girl is the perfect title for this collection of poetry. Like an android, this collection balances humanity and machine with an adequate dose of horror. Michael expresses himself in a variety of forms, utilizing both rhyme and free verse to offer wry warnings and submerged truths.

Inspired by the world-changing events of 2020, Michael H. Hanson delivers a moving collection of poetry and verse, driven by his own experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align and Hell is close. It is the time of The Sha'Daa. The mysterious Johnny The Salesman is up to his usual tricks, offering dark magic trades if one is brave enough to barter with him. Johnny's latest ally, the immortal tattoo artist Haumea, just might have the answer to saving the planet from destruction, if she can create enough supernatural tattoos at Mom's Bane tattoo parlor to turn the tide against evil.

Autumn Blush is poet Michael H. Hanson’s first published collection of poetry. Long out of print, it has been re-edited from cover to cover with many pieces receiving Michael’s rewrites that range from minor to extensive. A small number of poems have been removed and replaced with new exciting verse. Autumn Blush contains one 107 of Michael’s most rustic and romantic poems that roam through nature and all of the seasons. These short sonnets explore the depths of ardent passion felt by both fiery lovers and those whose powerful affections are left unrequited.

Frightening visions of abandonment, suicide, murder, and depression...nightmares populated by archetypes of spiritual evil, loneliness, death, mystery, and supernatural terror. These are the lifeblood of haunted poet, Michael H. Hanson. Take a step upon a dangerous carnival ride of the soul and brace yourself for jarring drops into shocking darkness. Dark Parchments offers up 85 chilling poems that crawl and slither through the fears staining the human psyche, making us shiver in the night. Scared yet? You will be.

Michael H. Hanson’s soulful collection of poetry, Jubilant Whispers, has been out of print for several years. It returns, now, fully re-edited with many poems rewritten, and additional works added to this second addition. In Jubilant Whispers, Michael offers up 71 works, a cornucopia of passionate poems that feed the heart and spirit. In his verses and prose, he recounts moments of pleasure, loss, pain, and longing.

The Mother of all Apocalypses, The Sha'Daa, is back! The mysterious Johnny The Salesman is up to his usual eldritch tricks and his latest ally, the immortal toy seller Willy Carroll, just might have the answer to saving planet Earth if he can sell enough supernatural toys at Whirligigs toy store in Chicago to turn the tide against evil. Twenty-six authors of the macabre offer up twenty-two gruesome tales of supernatural toys in this delightful shared-world adventure.