Here we are at day sixteen and what Halloween countdown would be complete without a visit from an author who has devoted his life to reinterpreting the writings of one of the most brilliant weird fiction authors of all time, Howard Philip Lovecraft. That's right, Willum Hopfrog Pugmire has entered the countdown, and his latest release from Dark Regions Press, Gathered Dust and Others.
With his first collection from Dark Regions Press, W. H. Pugmire
continues his radical and obsessive reinterpretations of H. P.
Lovecraft's brilliant fiction. Among the book's original pieces is the
title story, "Gathered Dust," a sequel to J. Vernon Shea's "The Haunter
of the Graveyard." Set in Arkham, this tale of utter strangeness
concerns the legacy of Randolph Carter and a monstrous burying ground
where the phantoms of the past linger so as to feed upon the living. In
"Depths of Dreams and Madness" we journey to Pugmire's Sesqua Valley,
wherein we find Lovecraft's artist, Richard Upton Pickman and Robert E.
Howard's mad poet, Justin Geoffrey, tainted by the valley's supernatural
lunacy. With "These Deities of Rarest Air," Pugmire continues his
exploration of the prose-poem/vignette sequence, in a work that
deliciously evokes the mystic aura of not only Lovecraft but Clark
Ashton Smith as we ll. With artful decadence and a pen dipped into the
dark fin-de-siècle poetry of Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire, Pugmire
celebrates his beloved genre of fantastic fiction with works that only
his cracked skull could conceive. Jeffrey Thomas has provided a
provocative Introduction.
Dark Regions Press presents Gathered
Dust and Others by W.H. Pugmire as part of Dark Regions Digital. Browse
all of our digital titles by searching for "dark regions digital" or
"dark regions press."
"Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire is the prose-poet of the horror/fantasy field; he may be the best prose-poet we have." - S. T. Joshi
"In my opinion, he's the best living writer of Lovecraftiana." - Toren Atkinson, of the band Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
"Sometimes
subtle, sometimes as blunt as a rosewood coffin, Pugmire's stories are
always emotional. Drawing from his own rather bizarre life, it's often
difficult to separate the facts from the fiction, even for those who
presume to know him." - Ken Abner, editor of Terminal Frights
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Wilum
Hopfrog Pugmire, Esq., is the author of many books of weird fiction in
the Poe/Lovecraft tradition. He is seen in the current author's photo
with S. T. Joshi at the Lovecraft plaque at Brown University--both
Pugmire and Joshi contributed to the fund that helped to pay for the
placement of this memorial to the genius of H. P. Lovecraft. Joshi has
served as editor for many of Pugmire's collections of weird fiction,
including the hardcover omnibus from Centipede Press, THE TANGLED MUSE,
and the new collection from Hippocampus Press, UNCOMMON PLACES.
Wilum
Pugmire is an obsess'd H. P. Lovecraft fan-boy, and his obsession has
resulted in his writing book after book of weird fiction in the
Lovecraft tradition. The finest of his books is SOME UNKNOWN GULF OF
NIGHT, a collection of prose-poems and vignettes each of which was
inspired by Lovecraft's sonnet sequence, Fungi from Yuggoth. His
second-best book is UNCOMMON PLACES, recently publish'd by Hippocampus
Press, containing mostly prose-poems, the literary form that best
expresses Pugmire's decadent poetic soul.
Miskatonic River Press
will be releasing Pugmire's collection of tales of Nyarlathotep, THE
STRANGE DARK ONE, at the end of 2012. In 2013, Dark Regions Press will
published as limited trade hardcover the book of Lovecraftian tales that
he composed with Jeffrey Thomas, ENCOUNTERS WITH ENOCH COFFIN, a book
of all-new works (no reprints) for which Pugmire has penned a number of
new novelettes set in Lovecraft's mythical towns of Arkham, Innsmouth,
Dunwich and Kingsport.
Pugmire is nearly completed with the
writing of his next book for Arcane Wisdom Press, BOHEMIANS OF SESQUA
VALLEY, a collection of novelettes in the Cthulhu Mythos tradition. He
has just agreed to write a third book for Dark Regions Press, and plans
to make it a book-length collection of weird fiction inspir'd by the
Life and Works of Oscar Wilde. Plans are to release the yet untitled
book in 2014.
Wilum is the Queen of Eldritch Horror.
