tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65157275058097798172024-03-13T08:58:17.195-07:00A View from Sesqua ValleyA blogspot dedicated to my existence as a full-time writer in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, and celebrating the world of weird fiction and poetry.w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.comBlogger728125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-10703074984073259882018-09-22T16:05:00.001-07:002018-09-22T16:05:40.704-07:00W. H. Pugmire's "The Woven Offspring"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A453nP1wnqc" width="480"></iframe>w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-30191078119473405102018-09-19T12:21:00.001-07:002018-09-19T13:10:06.932-07:00ye new novel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000;">Actually, ye young witch is riding a moth on ye cover, not a butterfly....</span><br />
<b>I recorded nine minutes of video yak, but for some reason YouTube uploaded a mere four minutes--very frustrating when they do that. This is a fantasy novel of 188 pages, with opening chapters set in Arkham and Sesqua Valley, but with ye bulk of ye narrative set in our vision of H. P. Lovecraft's dreamlands. It may be order'd for $20 at Hippocampus Press <a href="htpp://www.hippocampuspress.com">htpp://www.hippocampuspress.com</a>. Ye novel is quite outlandish and Lovecraftian, and I am extremely pleas'd to have penned it with my clever co-author. For those who are attending ye <i style="color: #660000;">H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon</i> in Portland, OR next month, I'll be doing a reading from the novel there. </b><br />
<b>beast witches to all,</b><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white;">Isn't that a wonderful book cover? Ye cover design for my newest book is by Daniel V. Sauer, and I am extremely pleas'd with it. This is my third book written in collaboration with David Barker--ye others being <i>The Revenant of Rebecca Pascal</i> and <i>In the Gulfs of Dream and Other Lovecraftian Tales</i>. Some few portions of the novel take place in Arkham and Sesqua Valley, but ye majority of the work is set in H. P. Lovecraft's dreamlands, a place of infinite fictive possibilities. We're hoping that ye book will be available at <i>The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon</i> in Portland, Oregon this October; and if so I shall certainly do a reading from ye book. The novel is now available from Hippocampus Press <a href="http://www.hippocampuspress.com/">www.hippocampuspress.com</a> for $20. Paperback, 188 pages. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white;">No other news, my ducks. Hope all is well with y'all.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #20124d;">Oh yes, my ducks, I was once </span><u style="color: #20124d;">certain</u><span style="color: #20124d;"> that my future wou'd be in drama, perhaps as a playwright but moft assuredly as an actor. Indeed, as a high school student I was determined, after graduation, to become "the next Boris Karloff" and make my living in horror cinema. (I had, after all, won Best Actor Award, pictur'd above, in 1970.) It wasn't until I played in a few professional productions, after high school, that I discover'd, to my dismay, that I was a wretched actor, that I slurred dialogue and was a bit of a ham. Thus I set aside my acting awards (I had won two, but lost one, a golden medal, when I attach'd it by safety-pin to my punk rock boots and it flew off during a slam-dance session), and took up ye Pen of Weird Fiction. I feel, however, that my tales are pregnant with </span><i style="color: #660000;">drama</i><span style="color: #20124d;">, although I tend to avoid scenes of violence. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #20124d;">I am still uncertain when my next two books will see publication, but I am hoping it happens this year. We lost our original illustrator for my forthcoming Hippocampus title, a weird novel set in Lovecraft's dreamlands, written with David Barker. My publisher assures me that he will find some equally fabulous illustrator, but this may delay publication. So, be patient, my sweets, ye tomes will tumble toward ya in time. </span></b><br />
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w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-13587343542985925722018-07-15T19:44:00.001-07:002018-07-15T19:44:57.531-07:00still yakking<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o5PDznSySx4" width="480"></iframe>w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-16776485365080543162018-07-15T19:36:00.001-07:002018-07-15T19:36:35.949-07:00tarnish'd<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T-h3GhfZyp4" width="480"></iframe>w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-91028542372611278672018-07-15T13:33:00.001-07:002018-07-15T13:33:54.405-07:00Ghoulie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Pictur'd above are my two chums, Ghoulie Shea and Bho Bloch. I knew them moftly through correspondence, although Vernon and I began to engage in lengthy 'phone conversations. It was Bloch who introduced me to Vernon by supplying me with his address. Shea became a very important friend, a living link to my great obsession, H. P. Lovecraft. I often sit and dwell on memories of Vernon, always regretting that he is gone and feeling fortunate to have known him in his last years. I've been thinking about him, moftly, because I've been rereading some old Necronomicon Press booklets, and recently dipped into Vernon's <i>In Search of Lovecraft. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Vernon had two or three tales publish'd in professional volumes, and edited two fictional anthologies of his own. His short story "The Haunter of the Graveyard" remains one of my favourite Cthulhu Mythos stories, and so enchanted me that I actually wrote a sequel to it,"Gathered Dust", whut became the title story of one of my books publish'd by Dark Regions Press. (The story will be reprinted this year in my new hardcover collection from Centipede Press.)</b></span><br />
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w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-25011876882347913462018-06-24T08:08:00.001-07:002018-06-24T08:08:35.209-07:00S T Joshi NYC 6-22-18<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cnGrhzodxuo" width="480"></iframe>w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-53110674518917042532018-06-23T13:00:00.001-07:002018-06-23T13:00:22.326-07:00Hippocampus!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PsHEuyAW9AM" width="480"></iframe>w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-3449053510130929352018-06-17T18:53:00.001-07:002018-06-17T18:53:21.900-07:00```<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Da7q0Q4QDUM" width="480"></iframe>w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-45836423084218136332018-06-17T12:28:00.001-07:002018-06-17T12:37:43.488-07:00Literature<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-88899017430226309632018-05-09T16:16:00.001-07:002018-05-09T16:16:32.267-07:00Ask Lovecraft - ST Joshi<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zjmRntw5aYU" width="459"></iframe>w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-41079564928654071142018-04-06T08:59:00.002-07:002018-04-09T07:52:01.394-07:00new BLACK WINGS VI hardcover!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="color: #660000;">Yes, my ducks, ye newest volume of S. T.'s wonderful series, </b><b><i>Black Wings, </i><span style="color: #660000;">has just been publish'd in hardcover by PS Publishing in England. It contains my story, "To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks," whut I originally penned for an anthology called </span><i>Autumn Cthulhu</i><span style="color: #660000;">, from which it was rejected. This is an instance in which rejection is a step up, because instead of appearing in that paperback volume the story will now see hardcover publication, and those hardcover editions from PS Publishing are beautiful. Also exciting for me is that this is one of ye few times when a Sesqua Valley story has appear'd in a <u>hardcover</u> volume. Yeehaw! To order ye volume, go to <a href="http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/">www.pspublishing.co.uk</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #4c1130;">Of course, this new story will be included in ye paperback edition of the book when that is publish'd by Titan Books, and that will certainly be available in ye States. And I am thrill'd to learn that S. T. has decided to include "To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks" in his forthcoming paperback anthology, </span><i><span style="color: #0c343d;">The Best of Black Wings</span><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="background-color: white;">!!</span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">Yes, my sweethearts--I pose as Lovecraft Scholar yet again, with an essay just publish'd in </span><i style="color: #274e13;">The Curse of Yig and Selected Ghastly Ghostwritings</i><span style="color: #444444;">, just publish'd by PS Publishing <a href="http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/">www.pspublishing.co.uk</a> in jolly ole England. This is a delightsome series edited & illustrated by Pete Von Sholly. Ye contents for this new volume:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Medusa's Coil, by H. P. Lovecraft (with Zealia Bishop);</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">After a long spell of not writing fiction, I am trying to find my way into ye composition of two new tales. One is to be a traditional Cthulhu Mythos tale, and I want it to be securely in that tradition. The other is the kind of story I swore to myself I wou'd never write--one in which H. P. Lovecraft is portray'd as character. I have protested to ye editor that <u style="font-style: italic;">I do not write such stories</u>, but he is insistent that I do so nigh. So I have to decide the time in HPL's life that I want to paint, and then invent some fantastic plot through which he staggers. I am not hopeful that anything good will come from my efforts.</span></b></div>
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<i>Stand within a ring of standing stones,</i><br />
<i>Tremble as you touch the hungry air,</i><br />
<i>Answer that which haunts a Cretan lair,</i><br />
<i>Night-usurper of King Minos' throne!</i><br />
<i>Language from a dim forgotten age</i><br />
<i>Eagerly develops on your tongue;</i><br />
<i>Yowl an antient name forever sung,</i><br />
<i>Stimulate a nameless heritage.</i><br />
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<i>Appetites that ravage ev'ry nerve,</i><br />
<i>Rabid as a lust you cannot quench,</i><br />
<i>Greedily devour your soul, and hence,</i><br />
<i>Esoteric blasphemy you serve.</i><br />
<i>Netherworld of Darkness spiraling,</i><br />
<i>Titan Qom-maq is your Ever King!</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He was a good friend, although we became distant because of silly nonsense in these past few years. I shall always cherish his memory and return to enjoy his wonderful short stories. Peace unto his Shade.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b><i>And Now the Screaming Starts</i> is one of my favourite horror films, based on ye superb Gothic novel, <i>FENGRIFFEN</i>, by David Case. Mr Case pass'd away recently, & that inspir'd me to watch ye film again, and to do a search this morning on audio books read by David Case (who, although he was American, has a rather British sound to his performance voice). I fell in love with his voice when I borrow'd his reading of Richard Ellmann's biography of Oscar Wilde (Knopf 1988) from our public library, at ye beginning of my long deep adoration of Wilde that began after seeing him portray'd in a British telly series, LILLIE. I've never found a copy of that audio for sale; but just to-day I discover'd a reading by Mr Case of <i>THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY on cassette tape, whut I have just order'd. I think I have two other unabridged readings of Wilde's novel somewhere in ye house. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b><i>For me, FENGRIFFEN remains <u>the perfect</u> Gothic horror novel. I have for many years felt a desire to write a similar novel, inspired by FENGRIFFEN but set in Sesqua Valley. I feel I may yet compose such a volume. And dedicate it to ye memory of David Case.</i></b></span><br />
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S. T. has pofted ye contents of ye forthcoming BEST OF BLACK WINGS paperback anthology. I am so pleas'd to have one of my better stories appear therein. Ye Contents be:<br />
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"Lesser Demons", by Norman Patridge<br />
"Howling in the Dark", by Darrell Schweitzer<br />
"Passing Spirits", by Sam Gafford<br />
"When Death Wakes Me to Myself", by John Shirley<br />
"The Abject", by Richard Gavin<br />
"Dahlias", by Melanie Tem<br />
"Bloom", by John Langan<br />
"Thistle's Find", by Simon Strantzas<br />
"Houdini Fish", by Jonathan Thomas<br />
"Artifact", by Fred Chappell<br />
"Cult of the Dead", by Lois H. Gresh<br />
"The Dark Sea Within", by Jason V Brock<br />
"Night of the Piper", by Ann K. Schwader<br />
"The Woman in the Attic", by Robert H. Waugh<br />
"The Walker in the Night", by Jason C. Eckhardt<br />
"The Organ of Chaos", by Donald Tyson<br />
"Voodoo", by Stephen Woodworth<br />
"The Shard", by Don Webb<br />
"To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks," by W. H. Pugmire<br />
"Lore", by Wade German<br />
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In ye video above, the fellow who narrates pronounces Miskatonic with ye first syllable sounding "Meeskatonic," long e sound. I have always pronounc'd ye first syllable as rhyming with "mist". Discuss. </div>
w. h. pugmire, esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6515727505809779817.post-5291397236683223492018-02-20T15:38:00.000-08:002018-02-20T15:38:11.873-08:00Ligotti on Vinyl <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Forthcoming from Cadabra Records <a href="https://cadabra-records.myshopify.com/">https://cadabra-records.myshopify.com</a> is this spoken-word performance of <i>The Bungalow House</i>, read by Jon Padgett, with musical score by Chris Bozzone. Ye record is no longer up for pre-order and general sales will begin in April. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>deluxe heavy weight tip-on gatefold jacket;</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>12-page booklet with new essay;liner notes by author Matt Cardin, & new interview with Thomas Ligotti;</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d;">Above is Camille Alquier's jacket illustration for my soon-to-be-publish'd hardcover collection from Centipede press, </span><u style="color: #660000;">An Ecstasy of Fear and Others</u><span style="color: #0c343d;">. This jacket art shews one of ye major themes in my weird fiction--ye seductive beguilement of horror. I think this kind of emotive response to nameless horror in my work was inspir'd by H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," where at ye story's conclusion the narrator not only accepts but seems to revel in ye revelation of his true nature. I, for one, celebrate my Outsider nature. </span></b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UI-cfA8-1smqkm9Hx6StHSkHSleNumsLUE4jYUPNK2A5N5HHa42LbDaa8vLyzytPE8fjkVwYCcQyBrtgM6jMQFyt4SH9onjE-dIeU3hx843ko-Z4CRAvHICIaMrnfOI7dH0B6YivBVIz/s1600/outsider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="325" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UI-cfA8-1smqkm9Hx6StHSkHSleNumsLUE4jYUPNK2A5N5HHa42LbDaa8vLyzytPE8fjkVwYCcQyBrtgM6jMQFyt4SH9onjE-dIeU3hx843ko-Z4CRAvHICIaMrnfOI7dH0B6YivBVIz/s640/outsider.jpg" width="288" /></a><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"> There is not yet any definitive release date for my new book, which is actually one of two new titles from mine pen to see publication this year (the other being the supernatural novel I co-author'd with David Barker, </span><span style="color: #4c1130; text-decoration-line: underline;">Witches in Dreamland</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d;">, to be publish'd by Hippocampus Press). It feels like it's been forever since I've had a new book out, so I look forward to holding these new ones in mine antient paw. </span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"> I am still--unhappily--unable to concentrate on ye creation of new fiction. My mind is a void of ideas & imagery. However, I suspect that once the newer books have seen print I'll suddenly feel ye urge to write new tales--that's usually the way it works with me. I'm at that point where I feel I have made a solid if slight contribution to ye genre. My goal of wanting to be recognis'd as an author of Lovecraftian horror is now fully realised. When I was young my ego ached to be "known" as a writer; and this is something that young writers are often impatient with, wanting ye "fame" of being an author before actually doing the work. I had one goal--to be known as a </span><u style="color: #274e13;">Lovecraftian</u><span style="color: #0c343d;"> writer, to be wed artistically to H. P. Lovecraft to an almoft audacious degree. I think I'm there.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"> My cd/cassette player died, so I order'd a new inexpensive one, knowing that one takes a chance in ordering such things online. My new player ain't fancy and looks rather "cheaply" made; but it is so nice to be able to play my Streisand and Barry Manilow and RuPaul cds in ye living room. So excuse me now as I go to listen to ye soundtrack of <i>The Beautician and the Beast</i>.</span></b></span><br />
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oy, my weary left hand...<br />
Went to S. T.'s to sign 300 signature sheets for ye forthcoming special hardcover edition of his anthology, <i><span style="color: #990000;">THE RED BRAIN--GREAT TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS</span>, in which my story "Pickman's Lazarus" appears. He and Mary had a special gift for me--ye kitty cat holiday shirt pictur'd above (with my oldest cat, China, looking on). It's very pleasant when ye friends one visits are also cat lovers. They have three cats. I have six, and the lad who rents my basement has another. I spend gobs of $$$$ on litter.</i><br />
<i>Signing signature sheets is probably the moft boring aspect of being a publish'd writer. It just gets so boring, having to sign your signature hundreds of time. S. T. is super-fast at signing; I am not, and when I try to keep up with him my signature becomes chaotic. So he is finish'd and sits patiently while I am plodding along.</i><br />
<i>Ye great reward is that S. T.'s charming wife, Mary, always makes a marvelous dinner for after ye signing is finish'd. So although my hand be weary, my stomach is well pleas'd.</i><br />
<i>Hope ye new year is treating all of ye well.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>I no longer celebrate Christmas, but when I was a kid I loved having a Christmas tree--a real one, that smelled like the woods. So it was very pleasant, last night, when Mary and S. T. had me over for din-din, & they had just put up their tree. The first Sesqua Valley tale that I wrote so many decades ago was called "O, Christmas Tree," and although that early first version wasn't very good, my sweet chum Jessica Amanda Salmonson rewrote it and published it in one of her anthologies. It was the first time I saw my byline in a gosh-darn for-real book, & it was exhilarating. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>In ye photo here I am holding ye newest volume in S. T.'s magnificent <i>BLACK WINGS </i>series. I am especially pleas'd with this new volume because it contains a story of mine own that was rejected from another Mythos anthology. I consider the tale, "To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks," rather good and was surpris'd when it got rejected; so it was very pleasant when S. T. accepted it for a handsome hardcover edition; and now he has accepted it for a reprint anthology to be called <i>THE BEST OF BLACK WINGS</i>, so the story has an extended life. (It will also be reprinted in the trade pb volume, <i>BLACK WINGS OF CTHULHU 6, </i>sometime next year. )</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>S. T. will be taking a break from editing this series of Mythos fiction, as he is busy writing his memoirs (!!) and working on several other books, among them a new anthology to be called <i>APOSTLES OF THE WEIRD. </i>For this new anthology, S. T. has accepted a new, major rewrite of one of my more popular stories, "The Tangled Muse." </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>Not much else going on. My life is a happy existence of books, books, books. My wild days of being a queer punk exhibitionist are far behind me--I almoft never dress up these days, and have actually tossed out moft of my lipsticks (and, honey, I had <u style="font-style: italic;">a lot</u> of lipstick, addicted as I was of buying any new shade that caught my fancy). Now in my antique years, my one personal identity is that of a writer of Lovecraftian weird fiction--that is the title etched into my soul. </b></span><br />
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