Shirley Jackson Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 7 (2013) Winner
Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
ジョセフ・エス・パルヴァー・シニア
Josefu S. Paruvā Shinia
Aliases:
Joseph Pulver Sr. / Joe Pulver
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1955-07-05 （Schenectady, New York）
- Died
- 2020-04-24 （Berlin, Germany） age 64
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Germany (lived)
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, poet, editor
- Active Years
- 1990-2020
- Influenced By
- H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers, Thomas Ligotti
- Influenced
- Modern horror writers
- Nominations
- Shirley Jackson Award 2016 nominee (The Madness of Dr. Caligari)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Shirley Jackson Award | The Grimscribe's Puppets | Superior Work in an Anthology | — | Winner |
| 2013 | Bram Stoker Award | The Grimscribe's Puppets | Superior Achievement in the Anthology Category | — | Finalist |
| 2016 | World Fantasy Award | Cassilda's Song | Best Anthology | — | Finalist |
Shirley Jackson Award
2013
Work:
The Grimscribe's Puppets
Category:
Superior Work in an Anthology
Result:
Winner
Bram Stoker Award
2013
Work:
The Grimscribe's Puppets
Category:
Superior Achievement in the Anthology Category
Result:
Finalist
World Fantasy Award
2016
Work:
Cassilda's Song
Category:
Best Anthology
Result:
Finalist
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Nightmare's Disciple
1999 HorrorLovecraftian novel.
Cthulhu Mythos
The Orphan Palace
2011 Dark fantasyStory of a serial arsonist and killer's road trip.
NoirHardboiled
Blood Will Have Its Season
2009 Horror collectionCollection of short stories.
HorrorPoetic
Bibliography
- Nightmare's Disciple, The Orphan Palace, Blood Will Have Its Season, SIN & ashes, etc.
Translations of Works
- Nearly two dozen short works translated into French and Japanese
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Poetic proseExperimentalNoir/horror hybrid
- Recurring Motifs
- Cthulhu MythosKing in YellowDark fantasy
Health
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)晩年Cause of death
Legacy
Known as a horror author and editor influenced by Lovecraft and Ligotti.
In Popular Culture
- True Detective creator recommended his anthology A Season in Carcosa.
Quotes
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The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre-Poe, Lovecraft, Campbell, Ligotti...
Source: S. T. Joshi Foreword (2009)
Trivia
- Lived in Germany.
- Spouse Katrin Pulver.
- Worked on graphic novel Knots, Gestures and Positions.