Take Gathered Dust And Others Written By W.H. Pugmire Listed As Script

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 name Pugmire on several occasions and decided to give this collection a spin.
The book starts with a bang, Gathered Dust is an homage or sequel to J, Vernon Shea's The Haunter of the Graveyard which has always been a favorite of mine, I didn't enjoy the stories in the niddle of the book as much as the first few but the lastor, especially Host of Haunted Air and A Vestige of Mirth are fantastic.




We had one final fight about my motherI demanded to be told about her, about why she had vanished when I was a boy, I knew instinctively that she had held the key to my mystery of hatching into this hateful world, She has visited me often, in my queerest dreams, and with each visit she looked a little altered, Often she was accompanied by two silent creatures, winged things with flesh as black as midnight, fiends without faces,



There are references to the Lovecraft world but Pugmire has also created his own little pocket of weird called Sesqua Valley, It's the kind of pocket you don't want to just stick your hand into blindly, too many sharp, pointy, oozy things inside, You could say this is Lovecraft with a darker, sharper edge, Some of these stories are told from the viewpoint of the fiends themselves, There is some sex both gay and straight but that is all secondary, looked down upon as unworthy of what is really important, There is also a recurring theme with eyes, . . not windows to the soul but windows to the void,



Coming to a stop, he held one hand to the quarter moon and made to it an esoteric sign, his sunken eyes flashing with keen expectancy.
A number of people gathered around the cart and took up the queerest looking instruments I had ever seen, Simon chose a mammoth coiled hornlike thing that looked incredibly heavy, an instrument that reminded me of a shofar blown at Jewish holidays, but it didn't come from any ram of earthly existence.
I didn't care for his writing style, 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 Im 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 below,

Your Kiss of Corruption
Yon Baleful God
Time of Twilight
Let is Wash This Thing
Bloom of Sacrifice
Depths of Dreams and Madness
Host of Haunted Air
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 amp Other Haunts' then this unholy mass of degenerate perfumed obscenities will be an intoxicating pleasure! The title story for this new collection appears here in its second version.
The first version was written as an extension to my prosepoem/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 tenthousand 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 Graveyard," which he wrote for August Derleth's original edition of TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS, The plot of the story would be entirely dictated by entries in HPL's CB, So I found some choice entries, a few of which I now list:
entry"Man lives near graveyardhow does he live Eats no food, "
entry"Fog or smokeassumes shape under incantations, "
entryStrange human being or beings living in some ancient house or ruins far from populous district either old N, E. or far exotic land. Suspicion based on shape and habits that not ALL is human, "
entry"Terrible trip to an ancient and forgotten tomb, "
entry"Man blindfolded and taken in closed cab or car to some very ancient or secret place, "
Vernon Shea was penpals with Lovecraft when he was a kid, and near the end of his life he became my own favorite correspondent and chum, When Jim Turner revised TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS, he dropped Vernon's story from the book, and I then determined that I would someday write my own sequel to the story and dedicate it to Vernon's memory.
When Dark Regions Press asked me for a book of tales, I decided to take that first version of my sequel and rewrite it as a single narrative, lengthen it a bit and remove some of the dreamy prosepoems that intruded on the narrative in the original version which will be published in March in my next book from Hippocampus Press, UNCOMMON PLACES.


GATHERED DUST AND OTHERS also includes some tales that have appeared in various journals, ezines and anthologies but never collected in a hardcover collection of my own, I've also written a new tale set in Gershom, my city of exiles, and a new Sesqua Valley tale, I love the jacket illustration by Wayne Miller, and Jeffrey Thomas has provided an Introduction that is quite wonderful, It was such a pleasure to work with Dark Regions Press, This year they will publish another collection, ENCOUNTERS WITH ENOCH COFFIN, whut I wrote in collaboration with Jeffrey Thomasand it is Lovecraftian to ye Core! This limited hardcover edition is numberedofproduced 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 Gathered Dust and Others'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 strangeness concerns the legacy of Randolph Carter and a monstrous burying ground where the phantoms of the past linger so as to feed upon the living.
In "Depths of Dreams and Madness" we journey to Pugmire's Sesqua Valley, wherein we find Lovecraft's artist, Richard Upton Pickman and Robert E, Howard's mad poet, Justin Geoffrey, tainted by the valley's supernatural lunacy, With "These Deities of Rarest Air," Pugmire continues his exploration of the prosepoem/vignette sequence, in a work that deliciously evokes the mystic aura of not only Lovecraft but Clark Ashton Smith as we ll.
With artful decadence and a pen dipped into the dark findesiècle poetry of Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire, Pugmire celebrates his beloved genre of fantastic fiction with works that only his cracked skull could conceive.
Jeffrey Thomas has provided a provocative Introduction, "

Also available as a deluxelettered slipcased hardcover,

Contents:

vii The Strange Case of Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, an Introduction by Jeffrey Thomas
viii The February,an interview of W, H. Pugmire by Jeffrey Thomas
"Gathered Dust" Randolph Carter
"Your Kiss of Corruption"
"Yon Baleful God" Cthulhu Mythosvariant of "The Baleful God"
"Time of Twilight"
"These Deities of Rarest Air" Cthulhu Mythos
"The Boy with the Bloodstained Mouth"
"The Woven Offspring"
"The Tangled Muse"
"Let Us Wash This Thing"
"Bloom of Sacrifice"variant of "The Bloom of Sacrifice"
"He Who Made Me Dream"
"Cool Mist"
"Descent into Shadow and Light"
"Serenade of Starlight"
"Graffito Flow"
"Depths of Dreams and Madness"variant of "Into the Depths of Dreams and Madness"
"Host of Haunted Air"
"A Vestige of Mirth"

Cover by Wayne Miller With his first collection from Dark Regions Press, W.
H. Pugmire continues his radical and obsessive reinterpretations of H, P. Lovecraft's brilliant fiction. Among the Gathered Dust and Others'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 strangeness concerns the legacy of Randolph Carter and a monstrous burying ground where the phantoms of the past linger so as to feed upon the living.
In "Depths of Dreams and Madness" we journey to Pugmire's Sesqua Valley, wherein we find Lovecraft's artist, Richard Upton Pickman and Robert E, Howard's mad poet, Justin Geoffrey, tainted by the valley's supernatural lunacy, With "These Deities of Rarest Air," Pugmire continues his exploration of the prosepoem/vignette sequence, in a work that deliciously evokes the mystic aura of not only Lovecraft but Clark Ashton Smith as we ll.
With artful decadence and a pen dipped into the dark findesiècle poetry of Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire, Pugmire celebrates his beloved genre of fantastic fiction with works that only his cracked skull could conceive.
Jeffrey Thomas has provided a provocative Introduction,

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jeffrey Thomas
Gathered Dust
Your Kiss of Corruption
Yon Baleful God
Time of Twilight
These

Deities of Rarest Air
The Boy with the Bloodstained Mouth
The Woven Offspring
The Tangled Muse
Let Us Wash This Thing
Bloom of Sacrifice
He Who Made Me Dream
Cool Mist
Descent into Shadow and Light
Serenade of Starligh
Graffito Flow
Depths of Dreams and Madness
Host of Haunted Air
A Vestige of Mirth.