An Ecstasy of Fear

by W.H. Pugmire, S.T. Joshi (Introduction), Gwabryel (Illustrator)

"Centipede Press" second collection of stories by Wilum Pugmire contains the author’s hand-picked greatest stories and prose poems (with no overlap with the first "Centipede Press" collection, The Tangled Muse). Profusely illustrated by Tom Brown, the book also features a dustjacket by Camille Alquier, frontispiece by Matthew Jaffe, and an interior illustration by Gwabryel.

Contents:
- Introduction
- "The Black Winged Ones"
- "Gathered Dust"
- "An Ecstasy of Fear"
- "Let Us Wash This Thing"
- "Artifice"
- "Letters from an Old Gent"
- "The Imps of Innsmouth"
- "Smooth Artifact of Bone"
- "Some Unknown Gulf of Night"
- "An Identity in Dream"
- "Hempen Rope"
- "Chamber of Dreams"
- "Unhallowed Places"
- "House of Legend"
- "A Shadow of Your Own Design"
- "Cesare"
- "To See Beyond"
- "A Quest of Dream"
- "Pickman's Lazarus"
- "To Dance Among Your Puppets"
- "Ye Horror on Tempest Hill"
- "Underneath an Arkham Moon"
- Source Credits

Genres: Horror

320 pages, Hardcover

First published July 2, 2019

About the author

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire (born William Harry Pugmire, 1951–2019) 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. 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.

Wilum lived in Seattle, WA and wrote Cthulhu Mythos fiction full-time. He was the self-proclaimed "Queen of Eldritch Horror". 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).

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This hardcover is numbered 40 of 300 copies, and is signed by:

Wilum Pugmire
S. T. Joshi
Camille Alquier
Tom Brown
Matthew Jaffe

Contents:

009 - Introduction
013 - "The Black Winged Ones"
021 - "Gathered Dust"
049 - "An Ecstasy of Fear"
075 - "Let Us Wash This Thing"
081 - "Artifice"
083 - "Letters from an Old Gent"
089 - "The Imps of Innsmouth"
095 - "Smooth Artifact of Bone"
103 - "Some Unknown Gulf of Night"
195 - "An Identity in Dream"
197 - "Hempen Rope"
199 - "Chamber of Dreams"
203 - "Unhallowed Places"
225 - "House of Legend"
227 - "A Shadow of Your Own Design"
233 - "Cesare"
235 - "To See Beyond"
253 - "A Quest of Dream"
267 - "Pickman's Lazarus"
279 -"To Dance Among Your Puppets"
289 - "Ye Horror on Tempest Hill"
309 - "Underneath an Arkham Moon"
319 - Source Credits