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Mr Pulver Sr at his bestWould recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed Sea of Ash. This novel IMO is packed with intense imagery so much so that it can’t be read in one sitting. The prose is so powerful as to be overwhelming at times, yet you continue to be pulled along Pulvers dark grim road..Rates as one of Lovecraftezines best publications.
There is no hope here.Just as the title of Joseph S. Pulver Sr.'s novella implies, this is a tale of darkness, despair and lost hope. The brief tale - it clocks in at about 27 pages - focuses on three men traveling an inhospitable land. The men are carrying out God's work as they seek out blasphemers and with gun, knife and flame claim the sinners. However, with the tale being told solely from one point of view it's hard to tell if these three really are carrying out wholesome work or killing in...
A holy mission to rid the land of an evil race of grey and miserable beasts, that oddly are perfectly normal people. I was quite confused as to the direction this author was going. Were these men really fighting an evil blight or was their holy minds prejudiced to the foreign land and the race of “heathens” that were residing there, minding their own business. Cruel and unrelenting these holy men trudge onward leaving a path of destruction in their wake. The prose were beautiful, but very dense....
Grim, dark and fast. My first Joseph S. Pulver Sr. book and it won’t be my last.
I need to read this one again. I think I got it, but this was super dense.
I have enjoyed this novella from Joe S. Pulver. The prose is very elegant and he paints the lush (and appropriately bleak) imagery very effectively with his prose style. This is a quick read and it kept me turning the pages to be with the characters as they made there way through the dark forests and pathways. Parts of the tale reminded me of Laird Barron's story, 'The Men From Porlock', that is a big complement because that is one of my personal very favourite stories. This book is available in...
Some of Joe's best, with beautiful and haunting prose.
Lush prose and an exhaustive exploration of obsession and despair. Nothing really happens, though.
Cover art - Dave Felton
Stylistically it’s similar to a musical round . Then it ends with a reference(stage directions?) to Stereolab and Nurse with Wound “Trippin With The Birds” which is a fitting audio accompaniment. The repetition of language and sentences synchronize with story. It’s not going to be for everyone. I didn’t like it at first but appreciated it by the end. The story is peppered with references to Odalric, the Grey Leech, Other Wolves, and the Way Home(perhaps the most damning) and its all very enticin...
This short story is about three men, who say they are on their way to Moscow from Rome on a mission from their master. Along the way they kill "sinners" indiscriminately. The violence is so brief and barely mentioned, even though it must be brutal and total. "Didn't turn to look at the blaze we left behind. We never do."The repetitive writing makes the bleakness of the world feel more real. The grey, the wind, the dust. The ending is perfect and really rounds this out.If you like weird horror, o...
Read this last night. Brutal, effective, and at times beautiful prose!
