Cover art for The Fuel of Tender Years created by Rodger Gerberding
The Fuel of Tender Years is a collection of macabre poetry written by Joey Froehlich. It is illustrated by Rodger Gerberding and the forward is written by Stephen King.
After Froehlich corresponded with King for a time, King told Froehlich that he should do a collection of his poetry. He told him that if he did, he would write a forward for him. A couple years later, in 1996, Froehlich published The Fuel of Tender Years as a chapbook through Gothic Press. As promised, King followed through and wrote the forward.
Contents[]
- A Hunger for Brains
- A Nighted View Before
- At Home in Ancient Smoke
- Behind the Eyelid Dreams You Will Never See
- Blood at the Circus
- Break In
- Cloth
- Cold Wind Guitars
- Dancers of Night
- Dealer of Obscurity
- Death in 1936
- Dreams of a Little Boy
- Dresden Slaughterhouse
- Echo
- Far From a Sinister Heart
- Fossils in the Sand
- From the Fire She Loved
- God Feeds the Ravens
- Gutter, Inc.
- Haunted Whispers
- I Failed the Man Who Ate My Dreams
- I Love Your Nightmare
- If You Don't Take Care of Your Own Brain Who's Going to Take Care of It For You?
- Inspired
- It Helps the Pain
- It's a Nightmare From Here
- Lawyers of Night
- Less Frogs
- Life is Good Unless You Die
- Mysterious Nation
- Nightmares' Mutiny
- Nobody Lives Without Her
- On His Deathbed, Someone Cared
- On Writing
- Parasite Window
- Psycho Fire
- Radicals Die Too
- Road to Nowhere
- Savage Eyes/Dark Remains
- Singing Nightmares
- Summer Bones
- Sunshine Banjoes
- Technology's Trance
- Thanksgiving
- The Buzzsaw Reunion
- The Cage
- The Fear You Don't Remember
- The Fuel of Tender Years
- The Girl Who Washes Sad Forever
- The Mailman
- The Marriage of the Dead
- The Music Out of Space
- The Sad Hermit
- The Sweetheart Of Doom
- The Violins
- The Year of Her Body
- Tombstone House
- Two Bullets
- Voices
- Where There Was Nothing
- Windows to a Dark Heart