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Like poison leaked from some acidic brain, this book will haunt you
with the language and vision of the lost. For more than four
decades, W. H. Pugmire has delighted and astonished his many
devotees with vignettes of perfumed prose-poetry that rival the
work of Baudelaire and Clark Ashton Smith. In this new collection,
which contains both new and reprinted pieces, Pugmire once again
stakes his claim to be the most accomplished prose stylist in
contemporary weird fiction. Here we find the shades of Lovecraft,
Poe and Oscar Wilde-that dandified British author whose life and
work hover over this collection like a sea-mist. We explore the
shadows spawned in Sesqua Valley... Providence, Rhode Island... and
Gershom, a city of artistic exiles. The title work is an impressive
sequence of prose-poems, each segment inspired by an entry in
Lovecraft's Commonplace Book, fusing delicate prose-poetry with the
terror that only the landscape of the fantastic imagination can
elicit. This new collection includes all of the original works
which first appeared in "The Tangled Muse," Wilum Pugmire's
highly-limited (and now, out of print) omnibus, together with a
number of newly-written and rather disturbing prose-poems that see
their first publication here. The title work also appeared in "The
Tangled Muse," but the author has added 10,000 additional words to
it for this edition-most of the new material being a segmented
sequel to J. Vernon Shea's "The Haunter of the Graveyard."
"Uncommon Places" features cover artwork and interior illustrations
by the fantastic Swiss artist, Gwabryel, specially commissioned for
this edition.
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