Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire | |
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.jpg) Pugmire signing books at the World Horror Convention on March 28, 2008 | |
| Born | May 3, 1951 United States |
| Died | March 26, 2019 (aged 67) Seattle, Washington |
| Occupation | Short story writer |
| Genre | Weird fiction, horror fiction |
| Literary movement | Cosmicism |
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Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire (born William Harry Pugmire; May 3, 1951 – March 26, 2019), was a writer of weird fiction and horror fiction based in Seattle, Washington. His works typically were 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 paid homage to the lore of Lovecraftian horror.[1][2] 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"[3] and as one of the genre's leading Lovecraftian authors.[4]
Pugmire's stories have been published in numerous fanzines, book collections, anthologies and magazines including The Year's Best Horror Stories, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, Weird Tales, 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.
- ^ "Summation 2003: Horror" by Ellen Datlow, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Garvin J. Grant, St. Martins, 2003, page lx.
- ^ "Wilum Pugmire". Centipede Press. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ^ Pugmire, W. H. (2011). The Tangled Muse. Foreword by S. T. Joshi. Centipede Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-933618-78-4.
- ^ Joshi, S. T. (2010). I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft. Hippocampus Press. p. 1043. ISBN 978-0-9824296-7-9.