Walk on the Weird Side

To be released at NecronomiCon-Providence:

WALK ON THE WEIRD SIDE (an unthemed, charity anthology of weird fiction and verse.) All proceeds to benefit NecronomiCon-Providence.

Contributors include: Nadia Bulkin, S. P. Miskowski, Kristi DeMeester, Matthew M. Barlett, Ann K. Schwader, Mike Griffin, Craig L. Gidney, Farah Rose Smith, Pete Rawlik, Ashley Dioses, Nathan Carson, Jon Padgett, Rebecca J. Allred, Starry Wizdom, Rhys Hughes, John Claude Smith, Michael Wehunt, Anna Tambour, Christopher Slatsky, Scott Thomas, Tom Lynch, Cody Goodfellow, Robert Levy, Jayprakash Satyamurthy, Philip Fracassi, Maura McHugh.

Cover art by Nick “The Hat” Gucker.
http://necronomicon-providence.com/welcome/

The Kickstarter for The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival San Pedro is LIVE! !!

The Kickstarter for The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival San Pedro is LIVE! !!

That’s right, the HPLFF-SP returns for the 7th year at the Warner Grand Theatre in historic San Pedro, California on April 29th, 30th, and May 1st..

The Imperial Dynasty of America wants YOU to help bring, ME, the Yellow bEast, to California by putting quarters (and dollar eagles! !!) in the Machine of MADNESS ! !!

WOW! Guests will include Cody Goodfellow, S. P. Miskowski, Ross Lockhart, Gary Myers, Mike Griffin, Leeman Kessler, Paul Komoda, Nick “The Hat” Gucker, Liv Rainey-Smith, Lee Joyer, among many others! !!

Chip in—make this happen…

O Masters of the Black Fires Concealed
Rise o’er the flights of dim mortals sleeping.
Nug and Yeb, Great Dragons black and red, make them
come to the fest to see the Yellow Sign
and for all new, original programming in addition to some of the finest Lovecraftian films.
O First Issue of She Who Is to Come Bearing a Thousand Young
Now lost to thy stillness of discomfort, spark thy Doom-Engines Black and Red
Instill imaginings of three days of movies, music, games, art, authors, vendors, and so much more--
O Dreadful Gods, in thy cold sepulchers deep amongst the black maze of stars,
Heed this appeal, made with arms spread wide in thy acolytes’ wanting, and arise
and tell all the maddened-children it’s like Woodstock for every Unmasked lurker
tainted by the shadowy dreams of Lovecraft……………… .

Laird Barron RAVES in "Locus" for Cassilda!

In Laird Barron’s review column in the new issue of “Locus”, Cassilda’s Song gets a rave. ‘2015 was a good year for horror and weird fic­tion anthologies. Cassilda’s Song is an able dem­onstration of why. It’s also a pleasant, if macabre, signal that the field is flourishing.’ Damien Angelica Walters, Allyson Bird, Chesya Burke, Anya Martin, Maura McHugh, S.P. Miskowski, and  Selena Chambers (‘Gorgeous, intricately layered, and extremely strange, this piece may be the blue ribbon exhibit in an exemplary batch.’), receive major shout outs! !!

‘…this is top shelf stuff.’

‘The table of contents is exceptional not for the fact that it’s composed entirely of women, but rather for the high level of quality.’

I’m OVERmoon to see THE CONTRIBUTORS receive this level of much-deserved praise!

THXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Laird! !!

BEGOTTEN

     I’m OVERmoon to announce, I’ve received permission from E. Elias Merhige (the director of Shadow of the Vampire and Suspect Zero) to edit an anthology of tribute stories based upon his brilliant masterpiece, BEGOTTEN. The anthology will be called BEGOTTEN. The book will be released summer 2017 by Mike Davis’ Lovecraft eZine Press.

Love for Cassilda

Comments and reviews for Cassilda's Song are coming in... so far, they all rave!

"...one of the most consistently excellent anthologies that I have read in the last couple of years." - Laird Barron

"An anthology dedicated to the King in Yellow. Pulver’s third major tribute anthology in recent days and probably the best. Selena Chambers, Maura McHugh, and S.P. Miskowski set the pace for a sleeper anthology of 2015." - Laird Barron

"This whole book will become a historic hive of Chambers whence these sometimes scarred but stinging Queens of Carcosa arc and soar..." -  Des Lewis


Table of Contents ~ ~~ 

Black Stars on Canvas, a Reproduction in Acrylic … Damien Angelica Walters
She Will Be Raised a Queen … E. Catherine Tobler
Yella … Nicole Cushing
Yellow Bird ... Lynda E. Rucker
Exposure … Helen Marshall
Just Beyond Her Dreaming … Mercedes M. Yardley
In the Quad of Project 327 … Chesya Burke
Stones, Maybe … Ursula Pflug
Les Fleurs Du Mal … Allyson Bird
While The Black Stars Burn … Lucy A. Snyder
Old Tsah-Hov … Anya Martin
The Neurastheniac … Selena Chambers
Dancing The Mask … Ann K. Schwader
Family  … Maura McHugh
Pro Patria! … Nadia Bulkin
Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning … E. Catherine Tobler & Damien Angelica Walters
Grave-Worms … Molly Tanzer
Strange is the Night … S.P. Miskowski


Des Lewis has completed one of his real-time reviews. You can read it here -- 

https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/12/20/cassildas-song-editor-joe-pulver/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26145911-cassilda-s-song


http://www.amazon.com/Cassildas-Song-Inspired-Robert-Chambers-ebook/dp/B018WRJO7M/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GBESPC1K98Q1VCGT0AZ

Laird Barron has some very kind words for Cassilda

On his blog, Laird Barron has posted his Five For 2015  list. Here's what he had to say about Cassilda's Song:
Cassilda’s Song, edited by Joseph Pulver. An anthology dedicated to the King in Yellow. Pulver’s third major tribute anthology in recent days and probably the best. Selena Chambers, Maura McHugh, and S.P. Miskowski set the pace for a sleeper anthology of 2015.


Congrats to all the contributors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sure they are as honored to be included here as i am.

Table of Contents ~ ~~

Black Stars on Canvas, a Reproduction in Acrylic … Damien Angelica Walters
She Will Be Raised a Queen … E. Catherine Tobler
Yella … Nicole Cushing
Yellow Bird ... Lynda E. Rucker
Exposure … Helen Marshall
Just Beyond Her Dreaming … Mercedes M. Yardley
In the Quad of Project 327 … Chesya Burke
Stones, Maybe … Ursula Pflug
Les Fleurs Du Mal … Allyson Bird
While The Black Stars Burn … Lucy A. Snyder
Old Tsah-Hov … Anya Martin
The Neurastheniac … Selena Chambers
Dancing The Mask … Ann K. Schwader
Family  … Maura McHugh
Pro Patria! … Nadia Bulkin
Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning … E. Catherine Tobler & Damien Angelica Walters
Grave-Worms … Molly Tanzer
Strange is the Night … S.P. Miskowski

Cassilda has arrived!! !

NOW available for your Kindle. ebooks will be available from iBooks and DriveThru in the next few days. And the trade edition will be here very, very soon! !!

     The black stars are up.
     Upon the shore of madness, the cloud waves break.
     The thunder of her song rises.
     Cassilda is an avalanche.
     From the breast of experience, from the shadows and tatters of the mind wounded, come the laughter and the tears now grasped by the fallen leaves of Trakl’s autumn. Cassilda’s complicated sisters, unwilling to be hidden away and boarded up, sound the thunder. Hot and colorful, in full view and shaded by the aroma of discord, they stand before you unmasked.

Table of Contents ~ ~~

Black Stars on Canvas, a Reproduction in Acrylic … Damien Angelica Walters
She Will Be Raised a Queen … E. Catherine Tobler
Yella … Nicole Cushing
Yellow Bird ... Lynda E. Rucker
Exposure … Helen Marshall
Just Beyond Her Dreaming … Mercedes M. Yardley
In the Quad of Project 327 … Chesya Burke
Stones, Maybe … Ursula Pflug
Les Fleurs Du Mal … Allyson Bird
While The Black Stars Burn … Lucy A. Snyder
Old Tsah-Hov … Anya Martin
The Neurastheniac … Selena Chambers
Dancing The Mask … Ann K. Schwader
Family  … Maura McHugh
Pro Patria! … Nadia Bulkin
Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning … E. Catherine Tobler & Damien Angelica Walters
Grave-Worms … Molly Tanzer
Strange is the Night … S.P. Miskowski

Cover art by Steve Santiago!! !


http://www.amazon.com/Cassildas-Song-Inspired-Robert-Chambers-ebook/dp/B018WRJO7M

Cassilda is coming............................. .

Cassilda's sisters sing!! !

Cassilda's sisters, some of the finest writers currently creating weird fiction, want to show you the Yellow Sign~ ~~


     The black stars are up.
     Upon the shore of madness, the cloud waves break.
     The thunder of her song rises.
     Cassilda is an avalanche.
     From the breast of experience, from the shadows and tatters of the mind wounded, come the laughter and the tears now grasped by the fallen leaves of Trakl’s autumn. Cassilda’s complicated sisters, unwilling to be hidden away and boarded up, sound the thunder. Hot and colorful, in full view and shaded by the aroma of discord, they stand before you unmasked.

Here is the ToC:

Black Stars on Canvas, a Reproduction in Acrylic … Damien Angelica Walters

She Will Be Raised a Queen … E. Catherine Tobler
Yella … Nicole Cushing
Yellow Bird ... Lynda E. Rucker
Exposure … Helen Marshall
Just Beyond Her Dreaming … Mercedes M. Yardley
In the Quad of Project 327 … Chesya Burke
Stones, Maybe … Ursula Pflug
Les Fleurs Du Mal … Allyson Bird
While The Black Stars Burn … Lucy A. Snyder
Old Tsah-Hov … Anya Martin
The Neurastheniac … Selena Chambers
Dancing The Mask … Ann K. Schwader
Family  … Maura McHugh
Pro Patria! … Nadia Bulkin
Her Beginning is Her End is Her Beginning … E. Catherine Tobler & Damien Angelica Walters
Grave-Worms … Molly Tanzer
Strange is the Night … S.P. Miskowski

     Not content to be seamstresses and cleaning ladies and set dressers, the contributors to Cassilda’s Song have claimed the canon and are now the lead actors; they have created the sets and stages and written the dialogue. They control the productions.


     There are no pretenders here. The Daughters of the Yellow Sign, each a titan of unmasked fire in their own right, have parted the curtains. From Hali’s deeps and Carcosa’s gloomy balconies and Styx-black towers, come their lamentations and rage and the consequences of intrigues and follies born in Oblivion. Run into their embrace. Their carriages wait to take you from shadowed rooms and cobblestones to The Place Where the Black Stars Hang.


     Have you seen the Yellow Sign?  The Daughters of Carcosa know its message, every wound and poison, and are about to reveal its gravity to you.


Cassilda’s Song (Chaosium 2015) will be released at the Necronomicon Providence ’15 convention this August.


Cover art is by Steve Santiago!! !



 

"Supremely glad that this is only Volume 1."

This is Ed Morris’ review of my collected King in Yellow tales (just released by Lovecraft Ezine Press). As he collaborated on one of these tales, it might be bad etiquette to post it here, but writers like to post raves, so—

“Supremely glad that

this is only

Volume 1.”

It is bad form to review a work

wherein the last story is a

collaboration with your-

self, but this is a

rare case. I asked.

The favor was

granted, the

form under-

stood.

Ah, Beast, teacher, Boogeyman, the father I actually found,

Sensei, dark midnight thunderer over metaphysical canons,

This collection, this chance, this great thing that

Mike Davis did, and everyone who proofed and dare

I say peopled its pages with dank cyanide Easter-

eggs: Mike Cisco. Kat Pulver. Brandi Jording.

Karl Edward Wagner. Laird Barron. Scott

Nicolay. David Lynch. But none of them

are big enough for Beast to hide

behind, even with false modesty,

homage, canonical Jazz and Ska

when all the stops come loose,

This series of etudes in every key,

This—Ah, Beast, the drunken

night behind the ropes at a

Tuscan restaurant while

the cooks paid back the

favor they owed the

Tuscan beauty on

my arm and we

drank till

four and

jukebox'd

Swing was

almost

this good. It almost

held this much weight, but

I don't have to put it

down after every story

and process what I

just read. Me.

Me.

You never cease to meditate on

Chambers, but never stayed

there, only jumped off

from there. Every time

I think you've cheated,

you rope-a-dope both
eyelids and I go
back one page and
Oh.

Oh.

Beast don't cheat. The reader
is his mouse. We get moved
back and forth on the
page. SWAT. SWAT. A
little blood, but
more to the field
of play. [END]


You can, of course, find the book at Lovecraft eZine Press, or Amazon.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1511783389/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=1B58MAVJDYCRM2ZHK5CK&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1975016422&pf_rd_i=283155

A word on the NecronomiCon Providence '15 "Round-Robin"

Cover by Nick Gucker: http://www.nickthehat.com/


NecronomiCon Providence '15 is fast approaching and we are nearly ready to send the con's special round-robin to the printer.

Dome came to Providence... here are the witness reports.

Contributors include:

Nick “The Hat” Gucker
Mike Davis
Tom Lynch
Anya Martin
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Gage Prentiss
Selena Chambers
Robert M. Price
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
Scott Thomas
Pete Rawlik
Lois Gresh
Daniel Mills
Sam Gafford
Justin Steele
Michael Griffin
Damien Angelica Walters
Jeffrey Thomas
Niels Hobbs
Ramsey Campbell
Michael Cisco
Ann K. Schwader
Sam Cowan

Limited copies of this book will be available for sale at the NecronomiCon Providence convention, and posters of the cover art will also be available.