Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts
By W.H. Pugmire
2003
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
229
Number of Pages
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. 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.
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
90
5 STARS
34%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
17%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
W.H. Pugmire
Author · 16 books
Wilum lived in Seattle, WA and wrote Cthulhu Mythos fiction full-time. He was the self-proclaimed "Queen of Eldritch Horror," and had been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since the early 1970s. Writing weird fiction was his life, but congestive heart failure slowed his writing. He considered his finest books to be Some Unknown Gulf of Night (Arcane Wisdom Press 2011), Uncommon Places (Hippocampus Press 2012) and The Tangled Muse (Centipede Press 2011).
