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w. convention on march 28 , 2008 h. pugmire signing books at the world horror cosmicism h. p. lovecraft , oscar wilde , william shakespeare american 3 may 1951 horror , dark fantasy w. _ img_2565 -rrb- . jpg _ h. _ pugmire _ -lrb- orig_2008-03-28_19 .35.29 w. h. pugmire
 wilum ` hopfrog ' pugmire short story writer
w. h. pugmire

wilum hopfrog pugmire -lrb- born may 3 , 1951 -rrb- is a writer of horror fiction based in seattle , washington .
his works typically are published as w. h. pugmire -lrb- his adopted middle name derives from the story of the same title by edgar allan poe -rrb- and his fiction often pays homage to lovecraftian lore .
lovecraft scholar and biographer s. t. joshi has described pugmire as `` the prose-poet of the horror/fantasy field ; he may be the best prose-poet we have , '' and `` perhaps the leading lovecraftian author writing today . ''
originally published mainly in small presses , since 1997 pugmire has produced a steady stream of book collections .
his stories have also been published in magazines and anthologies such as `` the year 's best horror stories '' , `` weird tales , '' `` the children of cthulhu , the book of cthulhu '' , and many more .
`` the tangled muse '' , a major retrospective of his work , was published in 2010 .
