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A genuinely original and creepy collection of stories and prose poems in the Lovecraft mythos, but better written than anything HPL ever made. Sad that I didn't know of the author before his untimely passing.
Once again Wilum delivers a fantastic collection of Mythos inspired horror! For anyone who loved his 'Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts' then this unholy mass of degenerate perfumed obscenities will be an intoxicating pleasure!
I really enjoyed this. It not only wears its influences on its sleeves; it celebrates them. Gothic imagery, southern trappings, and surprising chills. It's a hoot.
Wow.W.H Pugmire is quite possibly the most fantastic prose stylist I have read so far. His writing is vivid, tender, dripping with gothic sensuality. Everything about his tales is superb, from the dialogue to the characters, the language, the imagery, the Lovecraftian references...it's all there. The stories themselves might not always be very intricate, but that hardly weighs when you're in for the ride with a wordsmith like WHP.If I hadn't promised myself a degree of breadth in terms of author...
The stories in Gathered Dust and Others straddle the line between inventive weird fiction and Lovecraftian fanfic. There are excesses here that veer into the unpardonable: mauve! coils of hair! spooky flutes! Description sometimes strays into territory too purple (or perhaps mauve) for even my forgiving tastes, dialog becomes tin-eared, Lovecraft's cod-antiquarian vernacular gets tried on the way a boy tries on his father's shoes, and there are moments of self-consciousness that devolve into pre...
Pugmire writes a haunting tale that sings to you or gives you only a taste of the sacrifice in its rarest form imaginable. My overall favorite in this collection is “These Deities of Rarest Air” the prose in this title is the type of poetic song I’m talking about.From macabre kisses leaving one in darkness of kindred reflections, the taste of sacrifice and all its pulpy remains, and a host of haunting air. All these tales bloom into a madness of lovely visual readings.Other favorites listed belo...
This limited hardcover edition is numbered 4 of 100 produced and is signed by W.H. Pugmire. The complete name of the author is Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire.Dark Regions press this books publisher states "With his first collection from Dark Regions Press, W. H. Pugmire continues his radical and obsessive reinterpretations of H. P. Lovecraft. 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...
I didn't care for his writing style.
Some fresh takes for weird fiction and a nice addition to the broader Cthulhu Mythos. There are homosexual characters, as well as themes of incest and assault. I thought it was handled fine, but I understand if some are put off.
Her eyes, those colorless orbs, penetrated him with their staring, and her perfect mouth made love to the language she uttered. The artist, his hands itching for his pen, took in her mauve skin, her coils of tawny hair; and he marveled at how luxurious that hair looked in the misty light of the place, how it seemed in his imagination at times to writhe with an almost lecherous sentience.As I bounced around the internet between several of my favorite weird fiction websites I had come across the n...
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The title story for this new collection appears here in its second version. The first version was written as an extension to my prose-poem/vignette sequence, "Uncommon Places" (first published in THE TANGLED MUSE), in which each numbered segment is inspired by entries from H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book. I decided that I wanted to use the final new ten-thousand words of "Uncommon Places" to tell a connected short story that would stand as a sequel to J. Vernon Shea's "The Haunter of the Grav...
