Blood Will Have Its Season
Introduction by S. T. Joshi
Illustrated by Thomas S. Brown and Stanley C. Sargent
2009
ISBN 978-0-9814888-8-2
$15.00
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"In an earlier day I feel sure Joe Pulver would have been arrested for writing some of the stuff in this collection. Maybe he will be yet! In any case, I cannot shake the feeling that his stories are all well described by analogy to "The Colour out of Space" in that the descent of some elder, outer entity acts as seed producing, from the dark mulch of Joe's subconscious, a luxurious growth of beautiful and at the same time poisonous blooms. One knows one ought to flee but cannot resist hanging around to savor the corruption! And how can he write, with such intricate delicacy, thunderous prose that fairly rips up the pages it is printed on? I wish I knew! --Robert M. Price
"Each piece seethes with a sinister madness like a straitjacketed ghost forgotten in a dark and cobwebbed cell. In this innovative, hypnotic collection, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. has proven himself to be a perversely masterful sculptor of our dreams." - Jeffery Thomas
Table of Contents
- Choosing
- Carl Lee and Cassilda
- Line of Questions
- PITCH nothing
- I, Like the Coyote
- Blood Will Have Its Season
- mr wind sits
- The Prisoner
- An American Tango Ending in Madness
- Orchard Fruit
- The Songs Cassilda Shall Sing, Where Flap the Tatters of the King
- The Night Music of Oakdeene
- Dogs Begin to Bark All Over My Neighborhood
- Chasing Shadows
- But The Day Is A Tomb of Claws
- In This Desert Even The Air Burns
- And She Walks Into The Room . . .
- a certain Mr. Hopfrog, Esq., Nightwalker
- The Black Litany of Nug and Yeb
- Erendira
- An Engagement of Hearts
- An Event Without Knives or Rope
- One Side's Ice, One's Fire
- A Spider in the Distance
- PAIN
- A Night of Moon and Blood, Then Holstenwall
- Under The Mask Another Mask
- W a t e r l i l i e s
- Yvrain's Black Dance
- No Exit Sign
- Lovecraft's Sentence
- Midnight on a Dead End Street in Noir City
- The Master and Margeritha
- Hello Is A Yellow Kiss
- The Faces Of She
- Good Night And Good Luck
- Patti Smith, Lovecraft & I
- The Collector And The Hand Puppet
- The Only Thing We Have To Fear . . .
- The Corridor
- Stone Cold Fever