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'''Joseph S. Pulver''', Sr. (born 1955 Schenectady, [[New York]]) is an author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror fiction, noir fiction / [[hardboiled]], and dark fantasy genres. He lives in Germany.
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'''Joseph S. Pulver''', Sr. (born 1955 Schenectady, New York) is a zine editor, author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror fiction, noir fiction / hardboiled, and dark fantasy genres. He lives in Germany.
  
== Work as author ==
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Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various small press magazines, foremost among them [[Robert M. Price]]’s ''[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]''. His tales cover subjects ranging from Robert Wiene’s ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' to [[H. P. Lovecraft]]’s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] and Robert W. Chambers’ "King in Yellow."
  
Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various small press magazines, foremost among them [[Robert M. Price]]’s ''[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]''. His tales cover subjects ranging from Robert Wiene’s ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' to [[H.P. Lovecraft]]’s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] and Robert W. Chambers’ "King in Yellow."
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Pulver’s professional debut came with the publication of his Lovecraftian novel, "Nightmare’s Disciple".
  
Pulver’s professional debut came with the publication of his [[Lovecraftian]] novel, "Nightmare’s Disciple".  
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Pulver has also been the editor of [[Midnight Shambler]] and [[Tales of Lovecraftian Horror]]. He was also the co-editor for [[Crypt of Cthulhu]], published by Mythos Books LLC working alongside [[Robert M. Price]], Michael Cisco and David Wynn. [[Crypt of Cthulhu]] also published several poems and short stories by Joseph S. Pulver.  
  
In addition to various american small press magazines, Pulver’s work has been featured in numerous anthologies in the USA, UK, France, and Japan. Some of these anthologies include: "Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror", "The Tindalos Mythos", "Spawn of the Green Abyss", "The Book of Eibon", Lin Carter’s "Anton Zarnak: Supernatural Sleuth", and "Rehearsals For Oblivion".
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Pulver’s professional debut came with the publication of his Lovecraftian novel, "Nightmare’s Disciple".
  
Nearly two dozen short works of his have been translated into French and Japanese.
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===Novels===
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*''Nightmare's Disciple'', Chaosium 1999
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*''Nightmare's Disciple'', Speaking Volumes 2011
  
Of Pulver and his latest work ("Blood Will Have its Season"), published by Hippocampus Press, critically acclaimed author, [[Thomas Ligotti]], has said, "Some writers one admirers and others make one want to do as they do, or try. For me, Joe Pulver is of the latter type. His imagination is so vile so much of the time that it makes me giggle with amazement. And the prose so deadly visionary. I'm grateful that the pieces in this collection are those of a fellow horror writer who has raised the ante on what it means to be such a creature."
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===eBooks===
 
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*''Blood Will Have Its Season'', Speaking Volumes 2011
[[Lovecraftian]] biographer and scholar, S. T. Joshi, has said, "The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre-E.A. Poe, [[H.P. Lovecraft]], Ramsey Campbell, [[Thomas Ligotti]]-while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own."
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*''Nightmare's Disciple'', Speaking Volumes 2011
 
 
Rick Keffel of Bookotron.com has this to say: "Whatever your expectations may be, check them at the door. Pulver has a truly unique style for the horror genre, and this collection of short stories is a perfect vehicle for this sort of style . . . Pulver is an original."
 
 
 
Noted [[Lovecraftian]] editor, scholar, and [[writer]], [[Robert M. Price]] has stated:
 
"From the earlier book ("Nightmare's Disciple") I already recognized Pulver's genius in his ability to shape-shift stylistically between Raymond Chandler and [[Thomas Ligotti]]--without your even noticing! Like the gospel demon, his name ought to be Legion, since he assumes a new voice and persona as every particular chapter or sequence requires. In the new book, Pulver's polyphonic gifts mutate to a new and even more powerful pitch. The short scope of these many works allows him to write less leisurely, more rapid-fire. The author possesses another unique gift. The only way I know to describe it is to say that he combines the headlong, violent pace and savage sensibilities of Robert E. Howard with the refined and baleful mood of Robert W. Chambers and [[Thomas Ligotti]], and all this in an intricate, almost blank verse poetic diction. There is nothing like it!"
 
 
 
Laird Barron states, that "Joe Pulver is that rare artist who wears his influences on his sleeve yet is wholly original. He infuses his mellifluous prose with a raw, intellectual swagger that is sorely lacking in genre fiction. There are many writers of dark fantasy and horror, but after Joe Pulver the gods broke the mold."
 
 
 
== Praise for ''Blood Will Have Its Season'' ==
 
 
 
[[Thomas Ligotti]]: "Some writers one admirers and others make one want to do as they do, or try. For me, Joe Pulver is of the latter type. His imagination is so vile so much of the time that it makes me giggle with amazement. And the prose so deadly visionary. I'm grateful that the pieces in this collection are those of a fellow horror writer who has raised the ante on what it means to be such a creature."
 
 
 
Ellen Datlow: ""Blood Will Have Its Season is an ambitious debut [...] obviously influenced by H.P. Lovecradt and Robert W. Chambers, for the most part Pulver uses their influences to create potent tales of his own. A writer to keep an eye on."
 
 
 
== Praise for ''SIN & ashes'' ==
 
 
 
Laird Barron: ". . . I’m gawping in amazement, shaken by Pulver’s eviscerating vision. He wields language as a scalpel, a Thompson submachine gun, an axe . . . Joe Pulver calls down the fire. Joe Pulver’s the Man. He’s got the Power." (from the introduction to "SIN & ashes")
 
 
 
== Work as editor ==
 
 
 
Pulver has also been the editor of [[Midnight Shambler]] and [[Tales of Lovecraftian Horror]]. He was also the co-editor for [[Crypt of Cthulhu]], published by [[Mythos Books]] LLC working alongside [[Robert M. Price]], [[Michael Cisco]] and [[David Wynn]]. [[Crypt of Cthulhu]] also published several [[poems]] and [[short stories]] by Joseph S. Pulver.
 
 
 
He has also edited collections by Ann K. Schwader (The Worms Remember) and [[John B. Ford]] (Dark Shadows On the Moon).
 
 
 
* '''''A Season In Carcosa''''' (editor) - an anthology of new tales based on [[Robert W. Chambers]]' "[[King In Yellow]]" tales
 
* '''''The Grimscribe's Puppet's''''' (editor) - a collection of newly written tales in tribute to and based upon [[Thomas Ligotti]]
 
* '''''The Aklonomicon''''' (as co-editor) - Word & ART & the fragments of a certain madneSS ...
 
 
 
* ''"Crypt of Cthulhu"'' (co-editor)
 
* ''"Midnight Shambler"'' (editor)
 
* ''"Tales of Lovecraftian Horror"'' (editor)
 
 
 
 
* ''[[John B. Ford]]:'' '''''Dark Shadows On the Moon'''''
 
* ''Ann K. Schwader:'' '''''The Worms Remember'''''
 
 
 
==Bibliography==
 
===Novels===
 
* '''''Nightmare's Disciple''''', [[Chaosium]] 1999
 
* '''''Nightmare's Disciple''''', [[Speaking Volumes]] 2011
 
  
 
===Collections===
 
===Collections===
*'''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]], [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
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*''Blood Will Have Its Season'', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]], Hippocampus Press 2009
*'''''SIN & ashes''''', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]], [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
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*''SIN & ashes'', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]], Hippocampus Press 2010
 
 
===Anthologies===
 
*"... Hungry ... Rats" in '''''Spawn of the Green Abyss''''', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]], [[Mythos Books]] 2011
 
*"A Line of Questions" in '''''Rehearsals for Oblivion Act I''''', edited by Peter Worthy, [[Dimension Books]] 2006
 
*"A Spider in the Distance" in '''''Studies in the Fantastic No.1''''', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]] [[University of Tampa Press]] 2008
 
*"But It's A Long Dark Road" in '''''The Tindalos Cycle''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Engravings" in '''''Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror''''', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]] PS Publishing 2010
 
*"Icarus above" in '''''[[Nemonymous]]: Null Immortalis''''', edited by Des Lewis, [[Megazanthus Press]] 2010
 
*"Just Another Desert Night With Blood" in '''''The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 3''''', edited by [[Ellen Datlow]], [[Nightshade Books]], 2011
 
*"No Healing Prayers" in '''''Dead But Dreaming 2''''', edited by Kevin Ross, [[Miskatonic River Press]], 2011
 
*"Scarlet Obeisance" in '''''The Tindalos Cycle''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"The Adoration of the Black Flame" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"The Black Litany of Nug & Yeb" in '''''The Book of Eibon, edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"The Door in the House of the Never Slumbering Demon" in '''''Lin Carter's Anton Zarnak Supernatural Sleuth''''', [[Marietta Publishing]] 2002
 
*"The Door to the World" in '''''Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]] [[Chaosium]] 2001 [with [[Robert E. Howard]]]
 
*"The Exorcism of Iagsat" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"The Exorcism of Iagsat (1st version)", in '''''Lost Worlds of Space and Time''''' edited by [[Steve Lines]], [[Rainfall Books]] 2004
 
*"The Fevered Brain (co-authored with John B. Ford)" in '''''The Evil Entwines''''', edited by John B. Ford, [[Rainfall Books]] 2005
 
*"The Forgotten Ritual of Mnar" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"The Forgotten Ritual of Mnar" in '''''Lost Worlds of Space and Time edited by [[Steve Lines]], [[Rainfall Books]] 2004
 
*"The Grey Rite of Azathoth" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"The Kynothrabian Dirge" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"The Last Few Nights In A Life Of Frost" in '''''The Weird Fiction Review No.1''''', edited by [[S.T. Joshi]], 2010
 
*"The Nightmusic of Oakdeene" in '''''Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Cthulhu's Creatures''''', edited by Steve Lines and John B. Ford, [[Rainfall Books]] and [[JNJ Publications]] 2007
 
*"The Ritual of the Outer Void" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"To Call Forth Tsathoggua To Smithe Thy Enemy" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"To Summon and Instruct Zhogtk, the Emanation of Yoth" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"To Walk Free Amongst the Harms of Zin" in '''''The Book of Eibon''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]], [[Chaosium]] 2002
 
*"Zarnak's Guest" in '''''Lin Carter's Anton Zarnak Supernatural Sleuth''''', [[Marietta Publishing]] 2002
 
  
 
===Audio===
 
===Audio===
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===Chapbooks===
 
===Chapbooks===
*"Orchard Fruit" in '''''E'CH PI EL''''', [[Rainfall Books]] 2007
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*"Orchard Fruit" in '''''E'CH PI EL''''', Rainfall Books 2007
*"The Ebb of Reason" in '''''The Yellow Sign No.2''''', [[Rainfall Books]] 2007
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*"The Ebb of Reason" in '''''The Yellow Sign No.2''''', Rainfall Books 2007
*"The Guard Command" in '''''The Nightmusic of Oakdeene & Others''''', [[Rainfall Books]] 2006
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*"The Guard Command" in '''''The Nightmusic of Oakdeene & Others''''', Rainfall Books 2006
*"The Songs Cassilda Shall Sing, Where Flap the Tatters of the King" in '''''The Yellow Sign No.1''''', [[Rainfall Books]] 2006
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*"The Songs Cassilda Shall Sing, Where Flap the Tatters of the King" in '''''The Yellow Sign No.1''''', Rainfall Books 2006
 
 
===eBooks===
 
*'''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Speaking Volumes]] 2011
 
*'''''Nightmare's Disciple''''', [[Speaking Volumes]] 2011
 
 
 
===Magazines===
 
*"A Line of Questions" in ''"[[Tales of Lovecraftian Horror]]" No.11''
 
*"A Line of Questions" in ''"[[Terror Tales]]" No.1''
 
*"After Reading C'cyss-Khohe's "The Night of the Night"" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.100''
 
*"After the Wheel is Turned" in ''"[[Cthulhu Codex]]" No.16''
 
*"Aubade in a Graveyard" in ''"[[Penny Dreadful]]" No.14''
 
*"Bloom by the Beach" in ''"Patricide" No.2''
 
*"Bloom spends His Night At The Window" in ''"Patricide" No.2''
 
*"But Not For Me (With Laurence Amiotte)" in ''"[[Strange Aeons Magazine]]" No.4''
 
*"Chasing Shadows" in ''"Al-Azif" No.2'', March/April 1998
 
*"Chasing Shadows" in ''"[[Nightscapes]]" No.8''
 
*"Door in the House of Never Slumbering Demons" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.104''
 
*"Even Night" in ''"[[Songs of Innocence]]" No.4''
 
*"Forgotten Ritual of Mnar (first version, prose)" in ''"[[Cthulhu Cultus]]" No.12''
 
*"Hungers" in ''"[[Cthulhu Cultus]]" No.6''
 
*"I, like the Coyote" in ''"[[dreams and nightmares]]" No.58''
 
*"I once possessed a fragile blue vase" in ''"[[Penny Dreadful]]" No.14''
 
*"In ruin's chapel" in ''"[[Penny Dreadful]]" No. 14''
 
*"In the Devil's Garden" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.106''
 
*"In This Desert Even The Air Burns" in ''"[[Strange Aeons Magazine]]" No.3''
 
*"Litany for the Deliverance of our Holy Mother, Ut'ulls-Hi'ehr" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.105''
 
*"Lovecraft's Sentence" in ''"[[Midnight shambler]]" No.5''
 
*"Mythos Rhyme #1 (HPL)" in ''"[[Cthulhu Cultus]]" No.11''
 
*"Mythos Rhyme #4 (Chaugnar Faugn)" in ''"[[Cthulhu Cultus]]" No.12''
 
*"Orchard Fruit" in ''"[[Strange Aeons Magazine]]" No.1''
 
*"Orchard Fruit" in ''"[[Tales of Lovecraftian Horror]]" No.11''
 
*"Scarlet Obeisanc" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.106''
 
*"Scarlet Obeisance" in ''"[[Nightscapes]]" No.12''
 
*"The Black Litany of Nug & Yeb" (uncorrected) in ''"[[Nightscapes]]" No.7''
 
*"The Black Rite of Yaddith" in ''"[[Nightscapes]]" No.7''
 
*"The Delirium of a Worm-Wizard" in ''"[[Nightscapes]]" No.12''
 
*"The Ebb of Reason" in ''"[[Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex]]" No.17''
 
*"The Ebb of Reason" in ''"[[Terror Tales]]" No.1''
 
*"The Exorcism of Iagsat" (2nd spell version) in ''"[[Nightscapes]]" No.7''
 
*"The Exorcism of Iagsat" (1st version prose) in ''"[[Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex]]" No.17''
 
*"The Faces of She" in ''"Al-Azif" No.4''
 
*"The Forgotten Ritual of Mnar" (1st version prose) in ''"[[Chronicles of the Cthulhu Codex]]" No.17''
 
*"The Guard Command" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.99''
 
*"The Mummer's Dance" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.104''
 
*"The Night Music of Oakdeene" in ''"Al-Azif" No.3'', May/June 1998
 
*"The Night Music of Oakdeene" in ''"[[Nightscapes]]" No.12''
 
*"The Void World" on the ''"[[Terror Tales]] web presence"''
 
*"Tonight All The Sleeping Sentinels Will Be Born" in ''"[[Whispers from the Shattered Forum]]" No.4''
 
*"Twilight Sonatas" in ''"[[Songs of Innocence]]" No.04''
 
*"Untitled Poem for Robert M. Price" in ''"[[Terror Tales]]" No.1''
 
*"Watching Faye" in ''"[[Cthulhu Cultus]]" No.6''
 
*"Waterlilies" in ''"[[frission]]" No.18''
 
*"When Silence is all" in ''"[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]" No.107''
 
*"When the Eye of Pandora's Mask screams" in ''"Patricide" No.3''
 
 
 
===Reviews===
 
*''Closed on Account on Rabies'' (Review of CD) in [[Parts]] No.15
 
  
 
===Translated works===
 
===Translated works===
'''''En compaignie du Roi en jaune''''' Aug ‘99:
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''En compaignie du Roi en jaune'' Aug ‘99:
 
*"A Line of Questions" (in French as "Une file ge questions" — translated by C. Thill)
 
*"A Line of Questions" (in French as "Une file ge questions" — translated by C. Thill)
 
*"Once My Beloved" (in French as "A mon bien-aime" — translated by C. Thill)
 
*"Once My Beloved" (in French as "A mon bien-aime" — translated by C. Thill)
 
*"The Faces of She" (in French as "Les visages d-Elle" — translated by C. Thill)
 
*"The Faces of She" (in French as "Les visages d-Elle" — translated by C. Thill)
  
'''''The Book of Eibon''''' edited by [[Robert M. Price]] [Notssuo Press Japan] 2008 [translation into Japanese]
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''The Book of Eibon'' edited by [[Robert M. Price]] [Notssuo Press Japan] 2008 [translation into Japanese].
*"The Adoration of the Black Flame"
 
*"The Black Litany of Nug & Yeb"
 
*"The Black Rite of Yaddith"
 
*"The Exorcism of Iagsat"
 
*"The Forgotten Ritual of Mnar"
 
*"The Grey Rite of Azathoth"
 
*"The Kynothrabian Dirge"
 
*"The Ritual of the Outer Void"
 
*"To Call Forth Tsathoggua To Smite Thy Enemy"
 
*"To Summon and Instruct Zhogtk, the Emanation of Yoth"
 
*"To Walk Free Among the Harms of Zin"
 
  
===Stories===
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===Zines===
*"8's & Aces" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
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* [[Crypt of Cthulhu]] (co-editor)
*"a certain Mr. Hopfrog, Esq., Nightwalker" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
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* [[Midnight Shambler]] (editor)
*"A Night of Moon and Blood, Then Holstenwall" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
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* [[Tales of Lovecraftian Horror]] (editor)
*"A One-Way Fare" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"A Spider in the Distance in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"After Death" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"After Reading Michaux's "In the Land of Magic"" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Ain't No Love on the Street" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"An American Tango Ending in Madness" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"An Engagement of Hearts" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"An Event Without Knives or Rope" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"An Orange Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"And She Walks Into The Room . . ." in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"As the Sun Still Burns Away" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Blood Will Have Its Season" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Blow Wind Blow" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"But The Day Is A Tomb of Claws" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Caligari, Again" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Carl Lee and Cassilda" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Chasing Shadows" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Choosing" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Crow in Trick Town" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Dead Ends and Empties" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Dead 'Round Here Tonight" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Devil's Got the Walkin' Blues" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Dogs Begin to Bark All Over My Neighborhood" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Don't Look Back" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Engravings" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Epilogue for Two Voices" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Erendira" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Even Night" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"First There Is A Mountain . . . Then" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Forever Changes" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Funeral in a Hate Field" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Good Night And Good Luck" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Hello Is A Yellow Kiss" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"huddled in rags in a Kingsport alley . . . " in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"I, like the Coyote" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"I Often Dream of Words" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"in front of an empty house in dead city" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"In the White Walls of Silence" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"In This Desert Even The Air Burns" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"In This Desert Even The Air Burns" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Just Another Desert Night with Blood" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Kynothrabian Dirge" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Last Year in Carcosa" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Line of Questions" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Lonesome Separate Ways" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Long is the way and hard . . ." in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Long-Stemmed Ghost Words" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Love Her Madly" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Lovecraft's Sentence" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Midnight on a Dead End Street in Noir City" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Mother Stands for Comfort" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"mr wind sits" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"No Exit Sign" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"One Side's Ice, One's Fire" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Orchard Fruit" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"PAIN" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Patti Smith, Lovecraft & I" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Perfect Grace" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"PITCH nothing" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"Rendezvous Under Shadow Bridge" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Saint Nicholas Hall" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Scarlet Obeisance" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Sharp Fangs + Blood = Murder" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"She's Waiting . . ." in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Silent No Longer" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Stone Cold Fever" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Black Litany of Nug and Yeb" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Collector And The Hand Puppet" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Corridor" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Delirium of a Worm-Wizard" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"The Exorcism of Iagsat" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"The Faces Of She" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Last Few Nights in a Life of Frost" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"The Last Twenty Miles of Wandering Again" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"The Maiden of the Pines" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"The Master and Margeritha" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Night Music of Oakdeene" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Only Thing We Have To Fear . . ." in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Prisoner" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Songs Cassilda Shall Sing, Where Flap the Tatters of the King" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"The Walking Man Walks" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"To Live and Die in Arkham" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Under The Mask Another Mask" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"W a t e r l i l i e s" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
*"When the Deal Goes Down" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"When the Moon Comes to Call" in '''''SIN & ashes''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2010
 
*"Yvrain's Black Dance" in '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Hippocampus Press]] 2009
 
  
== Coming soon ==
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===Contributions===
 
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*[[Al-Azif]]
Novels:
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*[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]
 
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*[[Cthulhu Codex]]
* '''''Blood Will Have Its Season''''', [[Speaking Volumes]] 2011 (eBook) - published in March 2011
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*[[Cthulhu Cultus]]
* '''''Nightmare's Disciple''''', [[Speaking Volumes]] 2011 (eBook) - published in March 2011
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*[[dreams and nightmares]]
* '''''Nightmare's Disciple''''', [[Speaking Volumes]] 2011 (TPB) - to be published in March / April 2011
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*[[frission]]
 
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*[[Midnight Shambler]]
Stories:
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*[[Nightscapes]]
 
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*[[Patricide]]
* 4 "tExts" for [[Mike Dubisch]] art in '''''AKLONOMICON''''', edited by Ivan McCann (co-edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
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*[[Penny Dreadful]]
* ''"A Hand At The Door"'' in "Patricide" No.3
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*[[Songs of Innocence]]
* ''"A Meeting On The Trail to Hot Iron"'' in ''"Lovecraft eZine"'' - to be published in April 2011
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*[[Strange Aeons Magazine]]
* ''"kristamas as an exhibition”'' in '''''AKLONOMICON''''', edited by Ivan McCann (co-edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
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*[[Tales of Lovecraftian Horror]]
* ''"Never Call Anubis Loki’s Robots Cheap-Shit"'' w/ Garrett Cook and Jordan Krall in '''''AKLONOMICON''''', edited by Ivan McCann (co-edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
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*[[Terror Tales]]
* '''''NIGHT BEGETS''''', edited by Sarah L. Covert, Double Feature Press 2011
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*[[Whispers from the Shattered Forum]]
* ''"No Healing Prayers"'' in '''''Dead But Dreaming 2''''', edited by Kevin Ross, Miskatonic River Press 2011
 
* ''"Poem"'' w/ Nova Rupertus in '''''AKLONOMICON''''', edited by Ivan McCann (co-edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
 
* ''"Reprieve Eve No. 33"'' [anthology title and ToC to come]
 
* several "tExts" in '''''Black Velvet Necronomicon: Curse Book''''' by [[Mike Dubisch]]
 
* "tExt" for Ann S. Koi art in '''''AKLONOMICON''''', edited by Ivan McCann (co-edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
 
* ''"The Corpse-eating Cult of Leng"'' in '''''The Secret Heart of Asia''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]]
 
* ''"the guilt of each… at the end"'' in '''''Urban Cthulhu: Nightmare Cities''''', edited by [[Henrik Harksen]]
 
* ''"The Second Wave Of Fear"'' in '''''Beyond the Mountains of Madness''''', edited by [[Robert M. Price]]
 
* ''"TIME . . . and FOREVER"'' w/ [[Tara Vanflower]] in '''''AKLONOMICON''''' , edited by Ivan McCann (co-edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.)
 
* ''"When the Eye of Pandora's Mask screams"'' in ''"Patricide" No.3''
 
 
 
 
From the Editor's desk:
 
 
 
* '''''A Season In Carcosa''''' (editor) - an anthology of new tales based on [[Robert W. Chambers]]' "[[King In Yellow]]" tales
 
* '''''The Grimscribe's Puppet's''''' (editor) - a collection of newly written tales in tribute to and based upon [[Thomas Ligotti]]
 
* '''''The Aklonomicon''''' (as co-editor) - Word & ART & the fragments of a certain madneSS ...
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 23:29, 29 August 2011

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (born 1955 Schenectady, New York) is a zine editor, author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror fiction, noir fiction / hardboiled, and dark fantasy genres. He lives in Germany.

Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various small press magazines, foremost among them Robert M. Price’s Crypt of Cthulhu. His tales cover subjects ranging from Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and Robert W. Chambers’ "King in Yellow."

Pulver’s professional debut came with the publication of his Lovecraftian novel, "Nightmare’s Disciple".

Pulver has also been the editor of Midnight Shambler and Tales of Lovecraftian Horror. He was also the co-editor for Crypt of Cthulhu, published by Mythos Books LLC working alongside Robert M. Price, Michael Cisco and David Wynn. Crypt of Cthulhu also published several poems and short stories by Joseph S. Pulver.

Pulver’s professional debut came with the publication of his Lovecraftian novel, "Nightmare’s Disciple".

Novels

  • Nightmare's Disciple, Chaosium 1999
  • Nightmare's Disciple, Speaking Volumes 2011

eBooks

  • Blood Will Have Its Season, Speaking Volumes 2011
  • Nightmare's Disciple, Speaking Volumes 2011

Collections

  • Blood Will Have Its Season, edited by S.T. Joshi, Hippocampus Press 2009
  • SIN & ashes, edited by S.T. Joshi, Hippocampus Press 2010

Audio

  • "The Black Litany of Nug & Yeb" (read by Robert M. Price) on Strange Aeons, Stormclouds 2001
  • "The Stormclouds of Their Return" (read by Joseph S. Pulver) on Strange Aeons, Stormclouds 2001

Chapbooks

  • "Orchard Fruit" in E'CH PI EL, Rainfall Books 2007
  • "The Ebb of Reason" in The Yellow Sign No.2, Rainfall Books 2007
  • "The Guard Command" in The Nightmusic of Oakdeene & Others, Rainfall Books 2006
  • "The Songs Cassilda Shall Sing, Where Flap the Tatters of the King" in The Yellow Sign No.1, Rainfall Books 2006

Translated works

En compaignie du Roi en jaune Aug ‘99:

  • "A Line of Questions" (in French as "Une file ge questions" — translated by C. Thill)
  • "Once My Beloved" (in French as "A mon bien-aime" — translated by C. Thill)
  • "The Faces of She" (in French as "Les visages d-Elle" — translated by C. Thill)

The Book of Eibon edited by Robert M. Price [Notssuo Press Japan] 2008 [translation into Japanese].

Zines

Contributions

External links