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I have not read a lot of Joe Pulver's own writing (apart from Nightmare's Disciple and a few pieces in anthologies he contributed to or curated), but from what I understand after reading introduction and afterword, his writing is mostly like what is presented in this collection. Which means it is somewhere between prose and poetry, with "stream of consciousness"-like aspects, lots of atmospheric metaphors and similes and a lot of disregard of grammar and punctuation. Which means that, stylistica...
tl;dr: This is amazing, buy this book.Joseph S. Pulver is the King in Yellow –sorry True Detective fans; the Yellow King does not reside in Louisiana where he drives a power mower. No; this particular bEast resides in Berlin where he writes a form of Weird Fiction that seamlessly blends Noir, Beat, and Decadence with a cosmic kind of horror which can in turns wash over you with deliciously off kilter poetics before filling you with a dread that works its way into the darker, most hidden, reaches...
This book is Lethal Chamber Music striated among an earthcore-heavy tonnage of semantics, phonetics, syntax and graphology. I hope, by reading the whole review above, you will ‘get’ my enthusiasm for its unique pantheistic gestalt.It is only God who can win a tontine, of course. Not an individual deity, but a singularity of tattered-mask PANtheism constituting all us animal-humans, warts and all, cosmic nightmares and Proustian promenades alike. That is God.The detailed review of this book poste...
Mostly poetry.
After finding the recent Pulver edited anthology A Season in Carcosa a very mixed bag, I thought Id try this collection by the man himself. It starts very, very strongly; the first five stories are gloriously creepy and scary, modern-set noir-tinged Yellow King tales fraught with menace and madness, utilising many of the tropes of Chambers' original stories to stunning effect. Publication dates aren't listed for individual stories, but I can well imagine these were an influence on the original T...
The King In Yellow Tales is a collection of stories, vignettes, and poetic prose that is as dreamy and moody as the reality warping fictional play it takes its title from. Many of these are unconventional in form, but are nonetheless successful in delivering an all important sense of tone. Pulver offers a dedication to each piece, and many of which are to Karl Edward Wagner author of my all time favorite King In Yellow story, “The River of Night’s Dreaming.” While none of the stories in The King...
Joseph S. Pulver does it again.A modern classic of Carcosian tales. This will stay with you long after it's over. Definitely must buy for lovers of The King.
