Bohemians of Sesqua Valley
The haunted Sesqua Valley lies hidden in the Northwest, surrounded by forested hills. A region of dream and madness, it seduces the lunatic soul with the dangerous and captivating marvels of the Outside. Linked to the woodland of this valley is the shadowed forest of the Dreamlands, from which Nyarlathotep and his night-gaunts seep into the world of wakefulness so as to tempt and corrupt humankind.
With this collection of new original fiction, Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire investigates his Lovecraftian locality as never before, with new novelettes that take the reader deep into the mysteries of an eldritch land. Chief among they who haunt Sesqua Valley is its first-born beast, Simon Gregory Williams, who in this book is revealed as a creature of secret feelings and dark alchemy. BOHEMIANS OF SESQUA VALLEY is a showcase of Pugmire’s continual obsession with the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, to whom this book pay homage.
A collection of six novelettes of over 50,000 words
Contents:
- Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
- In Memoriam: Robert Nelson
- One Card Unturned
- An Ecstasy of Fear
- Unhallowed Places
- This Splendor of the Goat
- A Quest of Dream
- The Strange Dark One
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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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