Cult figure Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire is back with his first major short story collection. Includes all his major Sesqua Valley stories as well as "Songs of Sesqua Valley," the complete sonnet cycle.
Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, Esq., is the author of many books of weird fiction in the Poe/Lovecraft tradition. His past books include DREAMS OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR, SESQUA VALLEY & OTHER HAUNTS and THE FUNGAL STAIN AND OTHER DREAMS. Forthcoming books include WEIRD INHABITANTS OF SESQUA VALLEY (Terradan Works, Summer 2009. His most recent anthology appearance will be in S. T. Joshi's anthology of modern Lovecraftian fiction, BLACK WINGS (P. S. Publishing, Autumn 2009).
2011 has seen Miss Pugmire writing like some daemon-possess'd lunatic. Three new hardcover collections and one new paperback collection will have been publish'd by year's end. Earlier this year the definite edition of THE TANGLED MUSE, a deluxe illustrated hardcover omnibus, was published by Centipede Press. Early this summer Arcane Wisdom Press will publish SOME UNKNOWN GULF OF NIGHT, a book-length prose-poem/vignette sequence inspir'd by H. P. Lovecraft's FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH. The hardcover edition sold out in pre-order, but a trade pb edition will be available here at Amazon early next year. Last summer Dark Regions Press will publish GATHERED DUST AND OTHERS in a hardcover edition limited to 100 copies. After those copies are sold, the book will be available as paperback and ebook. And in October that rad publisher, Miskatonic River Press, will publish THE STRANGE DARK ONE--TALES OF NYARLATHOTEP in paperback. Early next year Wilum's second collection from Hippocampus Press, UNCOMMON PLACES, will see print. And late next year the book he is writing with JEFFREY THOMAS, a collection of Lovecraftian weird tales concerning the sinister New England artist, Enoch Coffin, will be published by Dark Regions Press.
Wilum specializes in prose and poetry of a Lovecraftian nature, supernatural fiction that is set in the fictive world of H. P. Lovecraft or in Wilum's own invented locale, the Sesqua Valley. Unlike Lovecraft's cosmic fiction, Wilum's work is utterly supernatural, at times outlandishly so. His prose style reflects the keen influences of Lovecraft, Poe, Oscar Wilde and Henry James, just as his poetry is tainted by his profound love for the Works of Shakespeare.
At present Wilum is working on two new solo projects, and on a collaborative book with Maryanne K. Snyder. Their first collaboration, "The House of Idiot Children," was published in the famous national magazine, WEIRD TALES.
Wilum is the Queen of Eldritch Horror.
