SIN & ashes by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.


  • Introduction by Laird Barron
  • 2010
  • Paper
  • ISBN 978-0-9844802-4-1
  • $20.00

 

In this brutal, beautiful volume, Joseph S. Pulver Sr. fulfills the promise of his earlier collection, the instant classic BLOOD WILL HAVE ITS SEASON. Nothing can dilute the visceral punch of Pulver’s writing. In the words of Rick Kleffel, it “reads more like a hard-boiled, old-style crime writer who stumbled into Lovecraft's world and is really, really pissed off about it. The characters and narrators have a gritty fury, an unrestrained anger that the universe would dare to treat them this way.” Mindbendingly visionary, SIN & ashes runs over 100,000 words and contains fifty-two texts ranging from prose to prose-poetry.


Table of Contents


Love Her Madly
She’s Waiting . . .
First There Is A Mountain . . . Then
In This Desert Even The Air Burns
Even Night
CROW IN TRICK TOWN
When The Deal Goes Down
Devil’s Got the Walkin’ Blues
Dead ‘Round Here Tonight
The Delirium of a Worm-Wizard
As The Sun Still Burns Away
Caligari, again
LONG-STEMMED GHOST WORDS
When The Moon Comes To Call
After Reading Michaux’s “In the Land of Magic”
The Walking Man Walks
SILENT NO LONGER
The Maiden of the Pines
Last Year In Carcosa
BANG BANG
Scarlet Obeisance
Rendezvous Under Shadow Bridge
in front of an empty house in dead city
AIN’T NO LOVE ON THE STREET
Perfect Grace
Kynothrabian Dirge
The Exorcism of Iagsat
Lonesome Separate Ways
Just Another Desert Night With Blood
After Death
I Often Dreams Of Words
Forever Changes
IN THE WHITE WALLS OF SILENCE
Zarnak's Guest
Mother Stands For Comfort
Blow Wind Blow
8’s & Aces
A One Way Fare
Don’t Look Back
Long is the way and hard . . .

A Night of Moon & Blood,
Then Holstenwall

huddled in rags in a Kingsport alley . . .
Dead Ends And Empties
Sharp Fangs + Blood = Murder
Saint Nicholas Hall
Funeral In A Hate Field
An Orange Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick
Engravings
The Last Few Nights In A Life Of Frost
EPILOGUE FOR TWO VOICES
To Live And Die In Arkham
The Last Twenty Miles of Wandering Again