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This had been on my list of books to read for a long time now and I had high expectations because many people who's opinions I respect have rated this author highly. On the other hand, I was concerned that it would be too myopically concerned with Lovecraft and the mythos. Willum makes no bones about it; he's unabashedly writing stories for "Lovecraftians", whoever they are. I have tended to avoid stories written too consciously with the mythos in mind as I was concerned they might be too deriva...
A collection that follows on from Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts which is as thoroughly enjoyable as the former tome. This volume contains some of W.H. Pugmire's longest and most complex tales in An Eidolon of Nothing, The Fungal Stain and Your Metamorphic Moan. We also have some beautiful meditations on lost love in Jigsaw Boy, religious faith in His Splintered Kiss and a loose series of poetry, vignettes and commentary in the Saprophytic Fungi. As with his other tales, intimacy, tenderness and...
I always look forward to reading anything Wilum H Pugmire writes, his tales of Sesqua Valley are brilliantly absorbing, transporting the reader to a locale drenched in esoteric lore and occult knowledge. Wilum has a high command of language, and well wrought Lovecraftian, weird fiction stories. I never wish his books to end as I can stay within their pages 24/7. The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams should be, if it is not already, a classic of weird fiction.
This was a great book and I always thought of Willum as the coolest member of the Lovecraft movement. RIP
this is dark moist stuff!!
Such beautiful lyricism in the prose & fiction of Mr. Pugmire... He is one of the authors keeping the Mythos fresh.
