Gathered Dust and Others

Artist: 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 book'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 prose-poem/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 fin-de-siècle 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

Limited to 100 signed and numbered hardcover copies, 6''x9'', bound in leatherette, signed by the author, stamped on the spine with the title and author's name, includes 80lb. natural vellum end papers, colored book ribbon, multi-colored header, 60lb. natural vellum stock, and has a beautiful dust jacket and sold out at the publisher

Lettered: Limited to 26 leather-bound deluxe hardcover copies w/slipcase, 6''x9'', bound in leather, signature page which is signed by both author and artist, front cover stamped and spine stamped with the title and the author's name, includes artsy end papers, colored book ribbon with nice full colored header, 60lb. natural vellum stock, a beautiful slipcase and dust jacket and sold out at the publisher