sparse." Publishers Weekly, reviewing Uncommon Places: A Collection of Exquisites, said that readers "with an appetite for the weird and the decadent will find Pugmire's work a rich confection." The site's review of Monstrous Aftermath: Stories in the Lovecraft Tradition, stated that "horror fans fond of baroque prose" should enjoy the collection, noting "a knack for injecting gallows humor", but adding that those "looking for memorable plots and vivid characterizations ... will have to look elsewhere." Fantasy Magazine's review of The Weird Inhabitants of Sesqua Valley, while observing "the love-it-or-hate-it nature of even the best Lovecraftian style", noted that there were "many pleasures to be had" in the collection of "surprisingly humanistic" tales. The New York Review of Science Fiction's review of The Tangled Muse stated that Pugmire's writing revealed "a mastery of language and vocabulary that brings to mind the work of Clark Ashton Smith", noting a "distinct homoerotic theme or undercurrent that is neither gratuitous nor inconsistent but rather genuine and often central to characterization and storytelling." Bibliography Originally published mainly in fanzines and small press magazines, Pugmire produced a steady stream of book collections beginning in 1997. Centipede Press published two major retrospectives of his work: The Tangled Muse in October 2010, and An Ecstasy of Fear in June 2019. Earlier stories were often rewritten substantially by Pugmire if republished (notably in Weird Inhabitants of Sesqua Valley and The Tangled Muse). Short fiction and poetry collections Tales of Sesqua Valley (1997, Necropolitan Press) Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror (1999, Mythos Books, ) Songs of Sesqua Valley (2000, Imelod Publications; collection of sonnets). Note: Although this volume was announced, and the poems appeared in Imelod magazine, the standalone volume did not appear. Pugmire dropped some poems and added new ones when he printed the poetic sequence in Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts (2008). Tales of Love and Death (2001, Delirium Books, ) A Clicking in the Shadows and Other Tales (2002, Undaunted Press; with Chad Hensley) Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts (2003, Delirium Books; 2008 Mythos Books paperback reprint contains three new stories). The volume also contains "Songs from Sesqua Valley", a sequence of 33 sonnets by Pugmire, most of which had previously appeared in a Canadian small press magazine, Imelod. The Fungal Stain and Other Dreams (2006, Hippocampus Press, ) Weird Inhabitants of Sesqua Valley (2009, Terradan Works, ) The Tangled Muse (2010, Centipede Press, ) Gathered Dust