Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire (born William Harry Pugmire; May 3, 1951 – March 26, 2019), was a writer of

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and

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based in

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. His works typically were published as W. H. Pugmire (his adopted middle name derives from the story of the same title by

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) and his fiction often paid homage to the lore of

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. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T. Joshi described Pugmire as "the prose-poet of the horror/fantasy field; he may be the best prose-poet we have" and as one of the genre's leading Lovecraftian authors. Pugmire's stories have been published in numerous

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, book collections, anthologies and magazines including ''

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'', ''The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu'', ''

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,'' ''Year's Best Weird Fiction'', and many more. In addition, two major retrospectives of his work, ''The Tangled Muse'' and ''An Ecstasy of Fear'', were published in 2010 and 2019.

Life

Pugmire was born on May 3, 1951, to a father active in the

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and a Jewish mother. Pugmire grew up in Seattle. Pugmire attended Franklin High School, where he said he was "a wimpy wee fag" who got beaten up a lot.''We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America'' by Kevin Mattson, Oxford University Press, 2020, pages 45-6. To escape what he called a rough childhood, Pugmire embraced "weird, creepy sci-fi stories" like

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TV show. During this time he also began playing the role of the vampire 'Count Pugsly' at Jones' Fantastic Museum in Seattle. The character was based on the look of

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's vampire in ''London After Midnight'' and Pugmire played the role into the 1970s. Issue #69 of

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's ''

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'' featured a dedication to Pugmire in his 'Count Pugsly' guise. In the documentary film ''The AckerMonster Chronicles!'', Pugmire described how he was influenced by Ackerman's magazine and showed the audience the issue in which his photo appeared. Following one year in college, he served as a Mormon missionary in

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, Northern Ireland for eighteen months, where he corresponded with horror writer

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and first began writing fiction. It was also in Northern Ireland that Pugmire discovered a paperback of Lovecraft's stories and was immediately captivated. After returning from his Mormon mission in 1973, Pugmire came out as gay to the church, was given psychiatric treatment, and requested excommunication, which lasted for about 25 years. In the early 2000s, he reconnected with the church and was rebaptized, telling the church's leadership that he would be a "totally queer Mormon, but celibate."Latter-day Saint, Latter-day Lovecraft: an interview with W.H. Pugmire
by Theric Jepson, ''A Motley Vision'', 4 February 2010. For many years Pugmire worked various jobs in cafés owned by old-time punk rockers, who would let him "dress in my

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makeup and mini-skirts as I bussed tables and washed dishes.""Inteview: W.H. Pugmire" by

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, ''Icarus 13: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction'', issue 13, summer 2012,

Lethe Press Lethe Press is an American book publishing company based in Maple Shade, New Jersey. In the early 2000s he became the live-in caregiver for his mother, who was an invalid due to epilepsy and dementia. Pugmire described himself as an eccentric recluse, "the Queen of Eldritch Horror," and a "punk rock queen and street

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". In 2011, Pugmire nearly died from congestive heart failure. While Pugmire recovered after being hospitalized, these medical issues slowed down his writing. He continued to suffer from heart issues in the following years and, after treatment in a cardiac unit, died in his home in Seattle on March 26, 2019, prompting numerous eulogies and career retrospectives.

Writing

Pugmire first began writing fiction during his Mormon mission in Northern Ireland, but grew discouraged with his work and stopped until the mid-80s. Returning to Seattle, he became a figure in the local punk rock scene and launched an influential zine, ''Punk Lust'', in April 1981. Called "one of the more interesting characters in the history of early 1980s punk," Pugmire filled the zine with his own gothic and grotesque drawings. His zine also published letters, including a number of them written by

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. "Punk has shown me that I should be angry," Pugmire later wrote, "and that I can express my anger in the way I look, as well as the way I think." Pugmire's time in Ireland led him to discover the works of H. P. Lovecraft, and eventually

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, and Lovecraft would become his strongest literary influences. Many of Pugmire's stories directly reference "Lovecraftian" elements (especially

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). A self-described "obsessed writer of Lovecraft horror", his stated goal was to "dwell forevermore within Lovecraft's titan shadow", claiming that "being Lovecraftian is my identity as an artist". Pugmire was quoted in the ''

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'' as saying that his writing was "a form of personal exorcism". When Pugmire visited Lovecraft's birthplace of

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, "he walked the streets from College Hill to Federal Hill with a diary in hand, scratching impressions as he went." Pugmire used these notes in his book ''Bohemians of Sesqua Valley''. Pugmire set many of his stories in the Sesqua Valley, a fictional location in the

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of the United States which for him served the same purpose as the fictional

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nexus did for Lovecraft, or the

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for

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Critical response

Pugmire's writings have been described as a "love letter to Lovecraft" around which he constructed his own universe. Pugmire's fiction has also been described as embracing the gothic with a modern sensibility, not as a look or a style but as "an idea that cut against the naive American faith that the past was absolutely past." Editor and scholar Scott Connors has written that, stylistically, Pugmire "owes as much to Oscar Wilde and Henry James as to HPL and Poe, creating a truly unholy fusion that defies academic boundaries between 'mainstream' and 'genre' fiction." Writing for ''Weird Fiction Review'', Bobby Derie stated that Pugmire "wrote Lovecraftian fiction without the formulaic trappings of the mythos, wrapped in a sensuous prose and characters with easy, fluid sexuality". Issue 28 of ''The Lovecraft eZine'' was devoted to Pugmire—"one of our greatest Lovecraftian writers"—with tributes from S. T. Joshi, Joseph S. Pulver Sr., and others; in it, Lovecraftian author and editor

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described Pugmire as "the Oscar Wilde of our time ... the most revered and beloved figure in the Lovecraftian movement today." Author

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listed him as one of "the best contemporary horror/weird fiction" small-press authors, and a writer who "puts forth a new baroque masterpiece every other year".

, in a 2009 interview, stated that Pugmire and

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were "the best Lovecraftians today". Lovecraftian writers Mike Davis and Will Hart both called Pugmire "the world's greatest living Lovecraftian writer."

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, in a ''Washington Post'' review article, spoke of Pugmire's "decadent, lush prose". S. T. Joshi described Pugmire's writing style as "richly evocative", writing in his scholarly analysis of

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fiction, ''The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos'', that Pugmire's work contains "some of the richest veins of neo-Lovecraftian horror seen in recent years." However, Joshi has been more critical of Pugmire's nonfiction writing, proclaiming "no one takes him seriously as a critic." ''

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'' magazine, in their review of ''Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts'', stated that "Pugmire's devotion to his sources transcends mere pastiche, and his style is neither overwrought nor too sparse." ''

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'', reviewing ''Uncommon Places: A Collection of Exquisites'', said that readers "with an appetite for the weird and the decadent will find Pugmire's work a rich confection." The site's review of ''Monstrous Aftermath: Stories in the Lovecraft Tradition'', stated that "horror fans fond of baroque prose" should enjoy the collection, noting "a knack for injecting gallows humor", but adding that those "looking for memorable plots and vivid characterizations ... will have to look elsewhere."

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's review of ''The Weird Inhabitants of Sesqua Valley'', while observing "the love-it-or-hate-it nature of even the best Lovecraftian style", noted that there were "many pleasures to be had" in the collection of "surprisingly humanistic" tales. ''The'' ''New York Review of Science Fiction'''s review of ''The Tangled Muse'' stated that Pugmire's writing revealed "a mastery of language and vocabulary that brings to mind the work of

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", noting a "distinct homoerotic theme or undercurrent that is neither gratuitous nor inconsistent but rather genuine and often central to characterization and storytelling.""Wilum H. Pugmire's ''The Tangled Muse''", by Peter Rawlik, ''The New York Review of Science Fiction'', October 2011, Issue 278, pages 13–14.

Bibliography

Originally published mainly in

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s and small press magazines, Pugmire produced a steady stream of book collections beginning in 1997.

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published two major retrospectives of his work: ''The Tangled Muse'' in October 2010, and ''An Ecstasy of Fear'' in June 2019. Earlier stories were often rewritten substantially by Pugmire if republished (notably in ''Weird Inhabitants of Sesqua Valley'' and ''The Tangled Muse'').

Short fiction and poetry collections

*''Tales of Sesqua Valley'' (1997, Necropolitan Press) *''Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror'' (1999, Mythos Books, ) *''Songs of Sesqua Valley'' (2000, Imelod Publications; collection of sonnets). Note: Although this volume was announced, and the poems appeared in ''Imelod'' magazine, the standalone volume did not appear. Pugmire dropped some poems and added new ones when he printed the poetic sequence in ''Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts'' (2008). *''Tales of Love and Death'' (2001,

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, ) *''A Clicking in the Shadows and Other Tales'' (2002, Undaunted Press; with Chad Hensley) *''Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts'' (2003, Delirium Books; 2008 Mythos Books paperback reprint contains three new stories). The volume also contains "Songs from Sesqua Valley", a sequence of 33 sonnets by Pugmire, most of which had previously appeared in a Canadian small press magazine, ''Imelod''. *''The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams'' (2006,

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, ) *''Weird Inhabitants of Sesqua Valley'' (2009, Terradan Works, ) *''The Tangled Muse'' (2010,

, ) *''Gathered Dust and Others'' (2011,

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, ) *''Some Unknown Gulf of Night'' (2011, Arcane Wisdom Press, ) *''The Strange Dark One: Tales of Nyarlathotep'' (2012, Miskatonic River Press, ) *''Uncommon Places: A Collection of Exquisites'' (2012, Hippocampus Press, ; prose-poetry collection) *''Encounters with Enoch Coffin'' (2013, Dark Regions Press, ; with Jeffrey Thomas) *''Bohemians of Sesqua Valley'' (2013, Arcane Wisdom Press) *''The Revenant of Rebecca Pascal'' (2014, Dark Renaissance Books, ; novel; with David Barker) *''These Black Winged Ones'' (2014, Myth Ink Books) *''In the Gulfs of Dreams and Other Lovecraftian Tales'' (2015, Dark Renaissance Books, ; with David Barker) *''Monstrous Aftermath: Stories in the Lovecraftian Tradition'' (2015, Hippocampus Press, ) *''An Ecstasy of Fear'' (2019, Centipede Press, ) *''An Imp of Aether'' (2019, Hippocampus Press, )

Novel

*''Witches in Dreamland'' (2018,

, ; with David Barker)

Selected anthology and magazine appearances

* "Whispering Wires", ''

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'' (#20, September 1973; as "Bill Pugmire"; first sold story) * "Pale Trembling Youth" (with

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), ''Cutting Edge'' (1986, Doubleday); reprinted in ''

XV'' (1987, DAW Books) and ''Horrrorstory Vol. V'' (1989, Underwood-Miller) * "O, Christmas Tree" (with Jessica Amanda Salmonson), ''Tales by Moonlight II'' (1989,

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) * "The Boy with the Bloodstained Mouth", ''The Year's Best Horror Stories XVIII'' (1990, DAW Books) * "Delicious Antique Whore", ''Love in Vein'' (1994,

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; 2000, Eos; 2005, Harper Voyager) * "The Night City" (with Chad Hensley), ''The Darker Side: Generations of Horror'' (2002,

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) * "The Serenade of Starlight", '' The Children of Cthulhu'' (2002,

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) * "The House of Idiot Children" (with M. K. Snyder), ''

'' (#348, January / February 2008) * "Inhabitants of Wraithwood", '' Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror'' (2010,

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) * "Some Buried Memory", ''

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'' (2011,

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) * "The Fungal Stain", '' New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird'' (2011,

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) * "The Hands that Reek and Smoke", ''The Book of Cthulhu'' ''II'' (2012, Night Shade Books) *"A Quest of Dream", ''Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One'' (2014, Undertow Publications) * "Half Lost in Shadow", ''Black Wings IV'' (2015, PS Publishing; 2016, Titan Books) *"Old Time Entombed", ''That Is Not Dead: Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Through the Centuries'' (2015, PS Publishing) *"They Smell of Thunder", '' New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird'' (2015, Prime Books) * "Into Ye Smoke-Wreath'd World of Dream", ''Cthulhu Fhtagn!'' (2015, Word Horde) *"The Imps of Innsmouth", ''Innsmouth Nightmares'' (2015, PS Publishing) *"A Shadow of Thine Own Design", ''The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu'' (2016,

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) * "A Gentleman of Darkness", ''Heroes of Red Hook'' (2016, Golden Goblin Press, reprinted 2021 in ''His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Stories about H. P. Lovecraft'', Hippocampus Press) *"In Blackness Etched, My Name", ''Black Wings V'' (2016, PS Publishing; 2018, Titan Books) * "The Barrier Between", ''Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic'' (2017, Dark Regions Press) *"To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks", ''Black Wings VI'' (2017, PS Publishing; 2018, Titan Books) *"An Implement of Ice", ''Weirdbook'' (#38, 2018)

References

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