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The official edition of this mammoth omnibus will be published late January. It contains all of the stories that I consider'd my best up to the time of compilation. Along with reprints there are some new things, including two tales in my new setting, the city of exiles called Gershom, in which the book's title story is set. Amusingly, I created Gershom in an attempt to write "modern urban horror fiction," inspir'd by a then-recent reading of an anthology of the New Weird. "Yeah," I assured mysel...
This spectacular collection of Weird prose poetry was my first experience with WH Pugmire but will most assuredly not be my last. I have a fairly low threshold of expectation when it comes to pastiche, especially Lovecraftian pastiche, which made the exploration of this tome all the more blissfully surprising. Pugmire unashamedly pays frequent homage to the vaunted father of cosmic horror, but with a voice of such uniquely lyrical quality and with such a bent of tittering madness that it far sur...
The Tangled Muse is a brilliant collection of weird fiction that is just as beautiful, strange and exotic as its author W.H. Pugmire. His characters and settings are vivid and captivating. He describes the world with such a clear and lyrical style of prose that every word and phrase weave and combine together like a dark lucid dream. I find myself reading and re-reading these wonderful tales and poems over and an over just so I can spend a little more time inside this talented author's dark and