Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts
Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts is a collection of horror and dark fantasy tales in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, set in the mysterious Sesqua Valley - a dark and sinister locale imagined by W.H. Pugmire. The reader will find carefully crafted tales of Lovecraftian horror and the Cthulhu Mythos artfully coloured with the lavish touches for which W.H. Pugmire is famous. His stories are not mere pastiche, but finely wrought stories that transport the reader into a foreboding and enticing realm of hororr and dark fantasy.
203 pp. 20 Lovecraftian and Cthulhu Mythos short stories and 1 sonnet cycle, set in Pugmire's Sesqua Valley.
Contents: O, Christmas Tree / The Ones Who Bow Before Me / Born in Strange Shadow / Another Flesh / Immortal Remains / Selene / The Darkest Star / The Songs of Sesqua Valley / The Heritage of Hunger / The Imp of Aether / The Million-Shadowed One / The Child of Dark Mania / The Hands That Reek and Smoke / The Host of Haunted Air / The Woven Offspring / The Place of Old Insanity / The Zanies of Sorrow / Beneath An Autumn Moon / The Balm of Nepenthe / The Phantom of Beguilement / A Vestige of Mirth.
Full color cover & 9 interior black & white illustrations by Augie Wiedemann.
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W. H. Pugmire
Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire (1951-2019) was a writer of horror fiction based in Seattle, Washington. His works typically are published as W. H. Pugmire (his adopted middle name derives from the story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe) and his fiction often pays homage to Lovecraftian lore. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T. Joshi has described Pugmire as "the prose-poet of the horror/fantasy field; he may be the best prose-poet we have," and "perhaps the leading Lovecraftian author writing today."
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