by W.H. Pugmire
originally published Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex #3, 1987
Nathan is an old former Dunwich-er who's settled in Sesqua Valley (wherever that is), bringing with him Wilbur Whateley's own copy of The Necronomicon. On this particular night, he uses it to summon The Winds of Yith.
Amber, a woman who apparently likes him, shows up and shames him for this summoning. It seems no one really knows what The Winds of Yith are, or what they'll do. But Nathan was feeling nihilistic tonight.
They wander off into the night. The winds howl about them, but nothing happens. It seems Sesqua Valley, a magical place, has chosen to protect Nathan.
Odd, evocatively written, dreamlike stuff. I rather liked it!
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"Some Buried Memory"
by W.H. Pugmire
originally published The Tangled Muse, Centipede Press, 2011
Charlotte Hund lives in the city of Gershon, which may be in the Dreamlands, and where new friend Sebastian Melmoth (a psuedonym once used by Oscar Wilde) is about to take her on a trip.
Charlotte is apparently a ghoul, though she was raised as a human (albeit a deformed one) by a witch grandmother.
Sebastian takes her to a place where an underground tunnel reunites her with her ghoul-ish brethren.
Hard to know what to say about this story. It's well-written, if florid, evocative, dreamlike, amusing, and pretty slight. Plenty of atmosphere, though.
originally published The Tangled Muse, Centipede Press, 2011
Charlotte Hund lives in the city of Gershon, which may be in the Dreamlands, and where new friend Sebastian Melmoth (a psuedonym once used by Oscar Wilde) is about to take her on a trip.
Charlotte is apparently a ghoul, though she was raised as a human (albeit a deformed one) by a witch grandmother.
Sebastian takes her to a place where an underground tunnel reunites her with her ghoul-ish brethren.
Hard to know what to say about this story. It's well-written, if florid, evocative, dreamlike, amusing, and pretty slight. Plenty of atmosphere, though.
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