AN ECSTASY OF FEAR: Stories By W. H. Pugmire.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine and illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Camille Alquier illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece by Matthew Jaffe, one full page colour plate by Brechet Gwabryel and nine further full page black and white plates by Tom Brown. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper which is without fading, loss or tears.

The second collection by Wilum Pugmire published by Centipede Press, following 'The Tangled Muse'. Comprising 22 stories and prose poems written between 2011 and 2019, of which 'Smooth Artifact of Bone' and 'Pickman's Lazarus' are published here for the first time.