Over the past decade, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. has attracted a worldwide audience for his stories, vignettes, and prose-poems—works that expand the boundaries of prose expression and evoke scintillating images of wonder, fear, terror, and heartbreak. In this fourth collection of tales, following Blood Will Have Its Season (2009), Sin & Ashes (2010), and Portraits of Ruin (2012), we find imaginative riffs on Edgar Allan Poe, Robert W. Chambers, H. P. Lovecraft, and others—but more than that, we find the evocative melding of horror and plangency that makes Pulver the most distinctive voice in modern weird fiction. Table of Contents “On the Embankment of Tangibility,” by Jeffrey Thomas “A Thousand Injuries—” “A (-BIG-) Fishy Menu” “and the bass keeps thumpin’“ “(he) Dreams of Lovecraftian Honor...” “Saturday Night… With a Dead Girl in It” “Doom… & Sigh” “into the world” “A Night of Moon & Blood, Then Holstenwall” “she sings. I sob…” “The Golem” “The Ozymandias Display” “under stars with no desire to flee” “no one ever talks about there will come a day these days” “c”-O[lLi(S)I;o!N,S iN tHE word box or (i)’s Disintegration” “On a Faraway Beach…” “Down… and down we go” “The Pencil” “Tender. Sins.” “Movietime… with popcorn and…” “Caroline No. Bleue “ “Brick. By… Brick” “A House of Hollow Wounds” “Desert Highway Motel” “One Window, Two Hearts” “The Sommerset Tales “ “Aubade in a Graveyard” “I once possessed a fragile blue vase “ “Twilight Sonatas “ “Tears & the stars fall” “Certain Sunday Evenings in Summer” “A Traveler Came with Gifts” “In a Raven’s Eye” “She Comes in Blood” “Words Touching” “Under June” “I’ll simply call her V” “Sarah smile” “In the spaces in between “ “The blood of a damsel’s breast on the green door of the forest” “I once possessed little other than a fragile blue vase “ “wind. ardent. circular, back on itself as if in dismay.” “Being Led by Pictures…” “The Ground She Sleeps upon Is a Clue… and a Mystery” “8mm… soil” “a stained translation” “In a Black Studio No. 76” “Vase” “A Cold Yellow Moon” Cover art by Daniele Serra Cover Design by Barbara Briggs Silbert