Saturday, October 27, 2012

A new blog for ASiC





We've set up a blog for A SEASON IN CARCOSA. We've been posting the first reviews (and there are more coming), have set up links to our contributors and places you can buy a copy. We hope you'll stop by and see the book trailers and read the glowing reviews.

http://aseasonincarcosa.blogspot.de/

Friday, October 12, 2012

Jeff Thomas, Simon Strantzas, and Hellbound Times have this to say





PUNKTOWN
creator and fan favorite, Jeff Thomas, has this to say about this Pulver fellow.

“As I study the bookstore shelves these days, I grow increasingly discouraged by the repetitive trends, the unimaginative prose voices, the general lack of literary adventurousness. That’s why I become increasingly appreciative of a writer like Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., who I think grows more important as a writer by the minute. But don’t get me wrong; the man isn't about hipper-than-thou airs, either. This is art with a capital Fun. Imagine a roller coaster ride through the Louvre, and you may get some sense of the rich and giddy rush of reading a story by Joe Pulver. So hang on tight, and enjoy the dizzying view.”-- Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown
Here's what the endlessly-talented, Simon Strantzas, has to say--

 "Fearless. Daring. Poetic prose for the unhinged. Each tale in Portraits of Ruin packs the sort of mental wallop that leaves the reader reeling. From the scorched deserts to the highest foreign towers, across plains of reality and beneath burning suns, this is no volume for the weak, for the conventional. It is a wake-up call from one of the genre's most visionary masters. A book for those who see differently, for those not afraid to know the truth no matter how terrible the cost. I envy anyone about to experience Pulver's horrors for the first time." --Simon Strantzas, author of Nightingale Songs

And Walt Hicks at "Hellbound Times" has the following to say about my new Hippocampus Press collection, Portraits of Ruin.

"I don't think I've ever read an author who is capable of blending/bending his influences quite like Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. As impacting as a violent train wreck, the resultant explosion of mellifluous ethereality onto the page is something so totally different that it's almost a completely new art form. Sure, you've got your Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers, Ramsey Campbell, William Burroughs, Richard Brautigan, Raymond Chandlereven T. S. Eliotbut jam them all together into Pulver's psychotic centrifuge, and the resulting velvet-swathed, running-the-guts spatter pattern ends up as a collection like Portraits of Ruin." –Walt Hicks, author of Exit the Light
You can read the whole rave review at this link
http://hellboundtimes.blogspot.de/2012/03/portraits-of-ruin-by-joseph-s-pulver-sr.html

PoR is out now and you can get a copy here

http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/portraits-of-ruin?zenid=815192813be2927fe51ac99de8532772

http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Ruin-Joseph-S-Pulver/dp/161498025X/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2F4V4U3J4GAY8&coliid=I1U2J2VUL6MKEO

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Anna Tambour parts the curtains

One hellish night - about zero sleep due to constant legs cramps... Woke up and popped a pain pill to cope. Didn't need it! !! Why? A link to the following blog post by no less a literary light [STAR!!!!!!!!!!! Wonder of the highest order!!] than, ANNA TAMBOUR (Crandolin coming from award-winning, Chomu Press in NOV!, Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &), was in my inbox to offer remedy and CURE! !!

Glee seized me. Humbled, honored, privileged, all spiked my FELT to gladly;YAYyyyyyyyyy~ ~~

Here's the post, a rave review of my new collection, Portraits of Ruin (Hippocampus Press 2012) --

http://medlarcomfits.blogspot.com.au/

Here's a link to PoR --

http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/portraits-of-ruin?zenid=eb06878b64aace2b1b7eba8cea6d591c

And here's a link to her upcoming novel CRANDOLIN~ ~~ Trust me, this is a work of rare BEAUTY & magic! !!

http://chomupress.com/our-books/crandolin/

Why do you NEED Crandolin? Try this --

“Immerse yourself in the magical world of Anna Tambour’s Crandolin, a delirious journey that takes the reader through Central Asia and Russia with some fascinating strangers and a donkey, a demanding musical instrument, and delicious hints of nougat and honey.”-- Ellen Datlow
 
“By turns lyrical and absurdist, whimsical and elegantly true, Crandolin is unlike any novel you will ever have read. Anna Tambour is brilliant, a true original.”-- Lucius Shepard

Monday, October 1, 2012

My newest autumnal sonatas step out of the grey rooms



"Decay flutters up on black wings" -- Georg Tralk "ON THE MOOR"

Just in time for the moon-bright translations of autumn my newest collection, the third from Hippocampus Press, PORTRAITS of RUIN, was released today.

This time I was honored to have an introduction by no less a light than, Matt Cardin!! ! PLEASED? YOU BET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

Here's a look at some of Matt's thoughts on PoR from his blog --

http://www.teemingbrain.com/2012/03/26/on-learning-to-read-joe-pulvers-portraits-of-ruin-by-writing-the-introduction-to-it/


"Let us posit that Bukowski is the sun. Or Brautigan, Burroughs and the Beats -- a solar Coney Island of the Mind where Timothy Leary’s dead and dead Cthulhu waits and sings the live long daydream believer. Then Joe Pulver’s Portraits of Ruin would be the burst of planets, Big Bang-Bang, Marquee Moons hanging on for what they got, scream of consciousness -- in Outer Space no one can hear it . . . except Coffin Joe, Monster Mash Potato that big ol’ Portraits of Ruin -- Mars needs it, you need it, so just open the lid and shake your fist -- then say: "They kill horses, horses, horses, horses." Thank you. Come again?" -- Thomas Ligotti





"All writers are influenced and inspired by other writers, and we all know writers who echo those influences, running the gamut from subtly to obviously, but I don't think I've ever read an author who is capable of blending/bending his influences quite like Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. As impacting as a violent train wreck, the resultant explosion of mellifluous ethereality onto the page is something so totally different that it's almost a completely new art form. Sure, you've got your Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers, Ramsey Campbell, William Burroughs, Richard Brautigan, Raymond Chandler -- even T. S. Eliot -- but jam them all together into Pulver's psychotic centrifuge, and the resulting velvet-swathed, running-the-guts spatter pattern ends up as a collection like Portraits of Ruin."--Walt Hicks Hellbound Times


http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/portraits-of-ruin


http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Ruin-Joseph-S-Pulver/dp/161498025X/ref=sr_1_20?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349116128&sr=1-20&keywords=joseph+s+pulver