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Joe Pulver is a master of taking the vague and esoteric skeleton of a mythos that Robert Chambers created in his book the King in Yellow and fleshing out bizarre, whole literary homunculi out of them. This book contains many KIY stories, but is filled with other horror and even what could be considered noir stories as well. A definite excellent reflection of a brilliant writer.
Mr. Pulver has a unique and original voice that is well suited to his sometimes experimental writing style - many instances of alternative capitalization and punctuation, even some layout and font variations. Lots of noir and tough-guy elements flavor these pitch-black horror tales, some of which are more poetry than prose. He also references Chambers' "The King In Yellow" stories frequently, expanding upon the weird cosmology and decadent themes of those old curiosities.I found a couple of stor...
A noirish, blighted landscape of blood and desolation. Grim, dark vignettes spewed forth by the blasted acolytes of the Yellow King..or something like that.This was my first Pulver collection, and my god, was it brilliant. For your money you get serial killer stories, cosmic horror, poetry, stream of consciousness cries to the old ones and more than you could possibly imagine. All with a Current 93 soundtrack.Highly recommended!
I kept starting this on and off for a long period of time, always finding myself oddly drawn to it despite finding the writing style fairly heavy going. In between my numerous attempts at getting into this I picked up 'The Orphan Palace' and read it feverishly over a couple of days. After that I came back to my copy of this and couldn't put it down. I've been working through his bibliography since and loving every second of it.The writing style might initially take a bit of getting used to, but
RAGEQUITThe title story (sixth in this collection) features a drawn-out and very graphic depiction of the rape, torture, mutilation, and murder of a pubescent girl by her own father. Oh, and it's from his POV, so it's also eroticized. I've long felt that Pulver seems a little too into writing about sexual violence against women and girls, and this confirms it. So sick to death of this shit from male horror writers. Really, the best way you can think to portray horror is through the rape, murder,...
After reading the _The King in Yellow_ by Robert W. Chambers, I wondered if anyone was writing stories in a similar vein. Since _The King in Yellow_ is in the public domain, was anyone writing stories utilizing Carcosa, Camilla, the Phantom of Truth, and King in Yellow? The answer I discovered is "yes"._Blood Will Have Its Season_ by Joseph Pulver is a collection of weird tales, a good number of which were inspired by Chambers' _The King in Yellow_. Other influences are Lovecraft, Robert Bloch,
Raoul Duke thought himself savage and unclassifiable, but I don't think he had ever met the bEast. Strangely, I met bEast before I read his work, though I had heard tell of him. I was contemplating embarking on a novel about dim Carcosa and the goings-on there when a friend I'll call Ol' Hoss clued me in.Mr. Pulver didn't discourage my ruminations about Big Dumb Objects and worldbuilding and I went on to pen the thing, ending up with about 800k of useless rambling, fodder for other work.Somewher...
I'll probably amend this review later, but while the book was overall very good, some of the stories seemed pretty lame to me. It was good but it wasn't Chambers.
I had high hopes coming to this collection. Here is one of the exceptional prose writers that modern horror has to offer, so I was given to believe. Naturally I was very excited but that excitement began to slip away as, story after story, I began to realise this was very different from what I expected.Joseph Pulver approaches the page as an impressionist painter approaches the canvas, painting words onto the page in broad strokes with lyrical flashes of imagery, subverting the rules of grammar
Joe Pulver is frighteningly good. His style is poetic, but not florally so. It is percussive, harsh but smooth with a deliberate rhythm meant, no doubt, to be felt as much as read. When I first read The Orphan Palace, I felt the reverberation of the prose in my chest. The other night I saw an old Mustang idling at the corner of King and Lacroix. It rattled my bones. It shook the heart inside my chest. It sat there waiting for the light to change, growling and impatient, eager to go. “That,” I th...
Fuckin awesome book... Joseph Pulver writes beautifully often in a very experimental style that drives home his nightmarish/brootal imagery with a force few writers I know of outside of Thomas Ligotti can muster. A great amount of this collection of short stories and prose poems revolves around The King in Yellow, most of which were awesome with my favorites involving Dr Archer, Carl Lee and Susan. His Lovecraftian tales were a highlight for me esp. 'Ochard Fruit' and 'Lovecrafts Sentence.'By th...
This book is a great read!
Blood Will Have Its Season is a collection of 41 short stories and poetry by acclaimed author Joseph S. Pulver. The book begins with a forward from editor and Lovecraft Scholar S.T. Joshi. He informs us that Joe has finally found his voice in short story form… and I agree. I was impressed with what I heard and read of Mr. Pulver’s work prior to BWHIS — but now I am simply in awe.Some short story collections read a little like a portfolio of the author’s work. Each story is different in style and...
Reader beware: The book is a brick to the face. It's very hard to read, and one of the stories in it actually ranks as the single most disgusting thing I've ever read in my life.But there are some stories that are worth a look, and for the weird fiction fan, this book is a must.Recommended, but in the hopes you have a strong stomach.
