Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire on TOP! !!

This just in, one of WEIRD fiction's best writers has read TOP and had this to say --

"Joe Pulver's poetic prose is hypnotic and intoxicating, so beautiful
and strange that it transports the reader. Yet it does the work of
creating fascinating characters and telling story. Story-telling is an
art, and none are more accomplished than Pulver. Weird fiction's primal
duty is to fuck [alternative word: debauch] your brain and kiss your
sense of wonder. This book has done that for me, as few horror novels
have. Absolutely brilliant."
--Wilum Pugmire

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire SINner!! !

"The imagery is so amazing I want to keep quoting it: "The moon is a window of ice wrecked in soft embrace of the river of midnight...its banks couldn't hold the invisible..."

But, no -- you must buy the book so as to find yourself FULLY entranced, pulled into the web of words and brutal/beautiful fancy. This is the neoteric world haunted by Joe's daemons, and his raptures. It is a celebration of the Literary, and rock'n'roll; of that which seduces and will not save you. It is the language of the lost, which has found its tongue in the idiom of pure originality. It is the taste of sin in your mouth, mixed with the debris of ash -- and it's taste is delicious and decadent and deadly, that savors of damnation. It is Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. -- one of today's truly original and effective artists, before whom we bow, hypnotized."--Wilum Pugmire, author of  The Tangled Muse 

You can find Hopfrog here

http://www.lovecraftianhorror.blogspot.com/

a certain mr. Hopfrog elegantly speaks . . .

a certain mr. Hopfrog Pugmire elegantly recommends Double Feature Press and one of his favorite bEasts . . . Again, I'm humbled and delighted to receive his praise. To be associated with a Lovecraftian of his caliber is both, a pleasure and a high privilege.  

Mr Wilum sings of Tindalos

My friend and fellow Lovecraftian, Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, on his utterly charming You Tube v-blog, has done two v-blogs on The Tindalos Cycle from Hippocampus Press.

You can enjoy them here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWilum#p/u/2/x5NJX-EhXxc

and

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWilum#p/u/0/WGLKCau0BUs

Hippocampus Press

Hippocampus Press has redesigned its website and updated the web-pages for my two collections, Blood Will Have Its Season (2009), SIN & ashes (2010), [and The Tindalos Cycle, in which I have two works].

You can also watch the “You Tube” v-blog, review of Blood Will Have Its Season by "Mr. Wilum" (Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire) on the new Hippocampus page. Yes, it’s a rave!

Here's the links:

http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/blood-will-have-its-season-by-joseph-s.-pulver-sr

http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/sin-ashes-by-joseph-s.-pulver-sr.

Wilum Pugmire's v-blog gets BLOODy

My pal, Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, has an ongoing v-blog on You Tube. They are insightful, funny, charming, all! And Wilum has posted one about my 2009 collection, Blood Will Have Its Season (Hippocampus Press 2009).

Hopfrog: "My first praise of this magnificent book, to be followed by one or two more specific vlogs concerning actual stories. This is one of the finest new books of horror fiction -- a book that is brilliant in every way!"

You can find Hopfrog's v-blog on BLOOD here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWilum#p/u/89/cRdQxyFjbQo

Thanks, Bro!

Another review of BLOOD

Lovecraftian fan and in-the-know E.O.D. member, Martian Anderson, has posted this review.

"A collection of stories ranging from the darkly poetical to the grittily gruesome. This is -- along with the anthology LOVECRAFT UNBOUND and two Sesqua Valley books by W. H. Pugmire -- the best horror book that I've read in 2009. In BLOOD, Joe Pulver fulfills the promise he gave a decade ago in his novel, NIGHTMARE'S DISCIPLE, displaying to the fullest his many facets as a writer. Highly recommended -- and do watch out for future tales from this man."

Thaks, Martin, coming from you that's high praise indeed! !!

Wilum Pugmire, Nightmare's Crusader! !!

a certain Mr. Hopfrog, Esq. has [on alt.horror.cthulhu] come to the defense of my novel, Nightmare's Disciple. Mighty nice of him! !! Let's hope he soon posts a review of ND on Amazon, or does a vblog for it!!! If you have not seen any of his delightful Mr. Wilum's vblogs, you NEED too! !! [look for Mr. Wilum on YouTube]

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWilum#p/u/24/SP2dh9RK3WY

"I have read NIGHTMARE'S DISCIPLE three times, & with each reading I enjoy it
more and more. It has some structural problems (it's too long, needs
editing; and the raves about modern culture can at times distract from
the core of the novel), but for a first novel it is quite good, so
well written that it is no surprise that Joe sold it to a professional
publisher. I have a dislike for extreme violence in horror fiction,
yet Joe's book is such from from a Mythos point of view that it kept
me reading -- and then rereading. It's the first thing that Joe ever
wrote, and he wrote it extremely well. I felt that S. T. Joshi's
comments on the book were tainted a lot by his (then) keen dislike of
and disinterest in the Cthulhu Mythos as a subgenre; yet even in what
was not a favorable review, S. T. could not help but praise portions
of the book: "And yet, Pulver is a good writer. When not riding his
Mythos hobby-horse, he can produce such passages of quiet eloquence as
this, describing his ageing police detective: 'Thirty-two somehow
became forty-three as he watched the years pass--some in the bottle,
all in pain--leaving few dreams and no illusions. Now the files and
photos spread across the desk in his den were fast removing what
little remained of his battered belief in human decency.' With more
prose like this, and with a little less piling on of the Mythos,
Pulver could do highly creditable work." And yet it is the mentions
of the Mythos in the book that keeps me returning to it, I find them
fun and fascinating. And the book's nasty villain is a powerful
evocation of what a lunatic murderer corrupted by cosmic evil would
be -- he is perfectly portrayed. I've been meaning to write a review
of this book at Amazon, where it has received twenty-five or so
"reviews" thus far, some of which call the book a loser, most of which
are favorable (one calls it the best book they ever read!). The great
news is that Joe is now working on a new novel. of which I know no
details but I somehow doubt that it will be tied to the Mythos; & a
second collection of weird tales is forthcoming from Hippocampus!
Yeehaw!"

THANKS, Hopfrog!!You ROCK!

All my bEastly best,

Joe