 August Derleth published some of Tierney's weird sonnets in "The Arkham Collector" and Tierney also began to submit verse to fantasy/horror markets such as "Nyctalops".His first collection of weird verse appeared under the title "Dreams and Damnations", a slim volume issued by The Strange Company in 1975, which included a few of his translations for Charles Baudelaire.Ultimately Tierney's weird verse of the period was issued as Collected Poems (Richard L. Tierney) (Arkham House, 1981) (see below).