W. H. Pugmire

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Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire
Born May 3, 1951
Occupation Short story writer
Nationality American
Genres Horror
Dark fantasy
Literary movement Cosmicism
Influences

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire (born May 3, 1951) is a writer of horror fiction based in Seattle, Washington. His works typically are published as W. H. Pugmire.

Strongly influenced by the works of H. P. Lovecraft, many of Pugmire's stories directly reference "Lovecraftian" elements (such as Yog-Sothoth of the Cthulhu Mythos). Pugmire's major original contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos is the Sesqua Valley, a fictional location in the Pacific Northwest of the United States that serves as the primary locale for much of his fiction. According to his official biography, his "goal as an author is to dwell forevermore within Lovecraft's titan shadow."

Pugmire is a self-proclaimed eccentric recluse as well as "the Queen of Eldritch Horror."

Pugmire's fiction has appeared exclusively under small press imprints, such as Necropolitan Press, Mythos Books, Delirium Books, and Hippocampus Press. He is currently working on a new collection of Lovecraft-inspired tales for publication from Mythos Books.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

Title Year Publisher Length Notes
Tales of Sesqua Valley August 1997 Necropolitan Press 66 A second printing of the book was made, the sole difference being the cover stock: the first printing had a glossy white cover while the second printing had grainy gray cardstock cover. Most of the reprints in this edition were substantially rewritten since their initial publication.
Contents: "Beyond the Valley of the Damned" [Introduction by Jeffrey Thomas], "Another Flesh" [originally published in The Bone Marrow Review #1], "Beneath the Deepest Wound" [originally published in The End #1], "Apotheosis" [previously unpublished], "Born in Strange Shadow" [originally published in Terminal Fright], "An Image in Chalk" [originally published in World of H. P. Lovecraft #4], "The Imp of Aether" [previously unpublished], "Immortal Remains" [previously published in Cthulhu Codex #6], "The Million-Shadowed One" [previously unpublished], "The Child of Dark Mania" [previously published in The Pnakotic Series], and "The Balm of Nepenthe" [previously unpublished]. 
Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror December 1999 Mythos Books 91 The reprints in this edition were substantially rewritten since their initial publication.
Contents: "Beyond the Realm of Dream", "Graffito Flow", "The Hour of Their Appetite", "Cool Mist", "Dust to Dust", "Necronomicon", "Gates Closed by Darkness", "The Baleful God", "Drink the Moon", "The Thing in the Glen", "The Audient Void", "The Hungry Place", "A Piece of Stone", and "The Totem Pole". 
Tales of Love and Death May 2001 Delirium Books 72 The reprints in this edition were substantially rewritten since their initial publication. Published in a signed, limited edition of 300 copies.
Contents: "The Phantom of Beguilement" [previously unpublished], "An Image in Chalk" [originally published in World of H. P. Lovecraft #4], "The Boy Who Made Me Scream" [originally published in Bizarre Dreams], "The Psychopomp of Irem" [originally published in New Mythos Legends], "The Bloom of Sacrifice" [originally published in The End #3], "The Zanies of Sorrow" [previously unpublished], "The Kiss of Corruption" [originally published in Tales of Lovecraftian Horror #9], "The Boy with the Bloodstained Mouth" [originally published in Nocturne #2], “Pale, Trembling Youth” [co-authored with Jessica Amanda Salmonson, originally published in Cutting Edge], "Cathedral of Death" [originally published in Grue #14], "The Cryptic Power" [originally published in Revelations From Yuggoth #1], "The Garden of Shattered Faces" [originally published in The Urbanite #10], "The Time of Twilight" [originally published in The Urbanite #10], "The Woven Offspring" [originally published in Lore #9], "Wormhead’s Kiss" [originally published in Deathrealm Fll/Win ’91], and "Crippled Love" [originally published in Cyber-Psychos AOD #5]. 
A Clicking in the Shadows and Other Tales 2002 Undaunted Press Split release with Chad Hensley.
 
Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts July 2003 Delirium Books 242 The reprints in this edition were substantially rewritten since their initial publication. Published in a signed, limited edition of 250 copies.
 
The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams October 2006 Hippocampus Press 179 Most of the reprints in this edition were substantially rewritten since their initial publication.
Contents: "An Eidolon of Nothing" [previously unpublished], "Hour of Their Appetite" [originally published in Dreams in Lovecraftian Horror], "The Sign That Sets the Darkness Free" [originally appeared in A Clicking in the Shadows and Other Tales], "Jigsaw Boy" [previously unpublished], "The Fungal Stain" [previously unpublished], "Balm of Nepenthe" [originally published in Tales of Sesqua Valley], "Some Darker Star" [originally appeared in Tales of Lovecraftian Horror #11], "The Saprophytic Fungi" [previously unpublished], "A Phantom of Beguilement" [originally published in Tales of Love and Death], "Stupor Mundi" [originally published as "Graffito Flow"], "Past the Gate of Deepest Slumber" [previously unpublished], "His Splintered Kiss" [originally published in The Urbanite #10], "Oh, Baleful Theophany" [previously unpublished], "The Strange Dark Folk" [previously unpublished], and "Your Metamorphic Moan" [previously unpublished]. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Biographical Material", in The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams by W. H. Pugmire (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006) ISBN 0-9771734-3-7.