What do you think?
Rate this book
Weird Inhabitants of Sesqua Valley
This collection of Sesqua Valley stories contains new material as well as older work revised or completely rewritten especially for this edition. Sesqua Valley, modeled on North Bend and the Snoqualmie Valley in the Pacific Northwest, is home to Wilum Pugmire's created world of supernatural forces and eldritch beings, attracting mere mortals who feel its call. While inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft, Pugmire uses Lovecraftian elements for his own ends, expressing a unique creative and poetic vision that sings of the liberating, if at times terrifying, power of transformation that lies within all of us.
120 pages, Paperback
First published September 14, 2009
48 people want to read
About the author
W.H. Pugmire
111 books108 followersWilum 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).
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).
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
May 30, 2020
The Cthulhu Mythos and weird fiction genre suffered a grievous loss with the death of Mr. Pugmire last year. I'm only docking this book a star because I had already read three of the stories in other Pugmire collections and elsewhere. For such a slim volume (only 120 pages) that felt like a lot. They were:
"Some Distant Baying Sound" - Uncommon Places: A Collection of Exquisites and also the March 2011 issue of the Lovecraft eZine (available online)
"The Million-Shadowed One" - Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts and also The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait (which was otherwise entirely forgettable)
"An Eidolon of Nothing" - The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams
"Some Distant Baying Sound" - Uncommon Places: A Collection of Exquisites and also the March 2011 issue of the Lovecraft eZine (available online)
"The Million-Shadowed One" - Sesqua Valley & Other Haunts and also The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait (which was otherwise entirely forgettable)
"An Eidolon of Nothing" - The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams
September 19, 2014
The stories in this book from this celebrated author will not disappoint. His take on Lovecraftian elements and characters are not the usual style you would expect. The characters Simon Gregory Williams and William Davis Manly that flow through these stories, I believe, are more Dunsanian than HPL. Be warned. This is not your average "Lovecraft style" of stories you would expect. Mr. Pugmire has his own vision and style and how his characters "relate" to one another in a few of these stories would make the Old Gent gasp. An amazing collection of reprints and a few exclusive to this book will bring a great surprise to anyone not having been exposed to this author before. Get lost in the world of Sesqua Valley. You may not return and you may not want to.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews