NOIR CENTRAL: HEELS ARE FOR HATING!

NOIR CENTRAL: HEELS ARE FOR HATING!

FLETCHER FLORA

A TOUGH, BOXING NOVEL OF WHICH I WAS UNAWARE . . .

AVAILABLE FOR YOUR KINDLE $1.99

Jackie Brand is a small-time middleweight boxing professional just barely trying to make ends meet. The week before a fight with one of Jay Paley’s boys, he comes home to his wife Peg daydreaming again about her much-coveted motor court out on Highway 66, and guiltily he goes out to have a drink. At the bar, he is met by the competition’s manager, and the latter makes a proposal: lose the fight and get paid ten thousand dollars. The amount would actually cover the downpayment for Peg’s house, so Jackie decides to accept the offer. But what price will it cost him?

Also includes the stories: SHE ASKED FOR IT, and POINTS SOUTH.

Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote various “sensational” stories during the 40’s and 50’s. Flora started writing right at the end of the pulp era, for magazines like ‘Dime Detective’. Then he moved on to do some 60 stories for the digests (Pursuit, EQMM, Suspect, etc). His mystery output includes over sixty short stories and sixteen novels. The Hot Shot and Strange Sisters are among his credits.

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HARDBOILED CORNER: THE SLEEPER CAPER!

HARDBOILED CORNER: THE SLEEPER CAPER!

RICHARD S. PRATHER

KINDLE EDITION $0.99

Shell Scott, was the second most popular private detective (after Spillane's Mike Hammer) of the 1950s. With over 40 million books sold. The Shell Scott stories were as powerful as a gut-wrenching Spillane story, but used more tongue-in-cheek humor.

In The Sleeper Caper, Shell is sent to Mexico to find who is rigging the horse races. When the most honest jockey south of the border is drugged and literally bites the dust on the race track. Shell is not only out to close this case – he out for revenge!

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Y/A CORNER: FLY ON THE WALL!

Y/A CORNER: FLY ON THE WALL!

E. LOCKHART

Enter Gretchen Kaufman Yee.

Collector of plastic Chinese food. Art student. Spider-man fanatic.
Gretchen’s in search of a big life. A superhero life.

Enter the Art Rats, a group of guys at her NYC art school.
They’re loud. Sweet. Annoying. Confusing.

Gretchen can barely look at them, goes mute whenever they’re near.
Especially, Titus. Delicious and smart. Absolutely on the radar.

Gretchen wishes she could be a fly on the wall of the boys’ locker room, just to see what these guys are like when they think no one’s watching. And then… there she is.

A fly.? On the wall of the locker room.

She sees…EVERYTHING.

And nothing is what she thought.

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FAUX-COVERS!

FAUX-COVERS!

NEGATIVE OF A NUDE FROM THE ART OF ILLUSTRATOR ROB KELLY . . .

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JONNY BLU @ VIBRATO!

JONNY BLU @ VIBRATO!

JONNY BLU IS BACK AT THE LEGENDARY HERB ALPERT'S VIBRATO!

SUNDAY ~ OCTOBER 3,2010 ~ 8PM!

Blu and The Blu Cru will be bringing his Swing, Jazz and Pop sounds from his album Taboo!, some of his own classics and he will perform several songs from his upcoming album due out in 2011! Be the first to hear them!

One night only! Call and make your reservations because this place seats only 200 and will fill up fast!

Box Office: 1-310-474-9400
Cover: $20 (& $20 food/drink minimum)
Website: http://www.vibratogrilljazz.com/

THE BAND:

Jonny Blu- Vocals
Bob Malone-Piano
Tom Luer- Sax, Woodwinds
Adam Gust- Drums
Ryan Roberts- Bass

FOR MORE ON JONNY BLU AND HIS MUSIC CLICK HERE

PHANTOM/DOMINO LADY CROSSOVER!

PHANTOM/DOMINO LADY CROSSOVER!

PHANTOM: DOUBLE SHOT KGB NOIR #5

FROM MOONSTONE BOOKS

DOMINO LADY: SEXY SIREN WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO GET JUSTICE

THE PHANTOM: HIGH ADVENTURE AND INTRIGUE IN TODAY'S AFRICA

STORIES: MIKE BULLOCK, NANCY HOLDER
ART: FERNANDO PENICHE, ALOSNO NUNEZ

A Special Noir Mini-Series Starring The Phantom with Tectonic Tie-In Tales Featuring Moonstone Books’ Best and Brightest Stars! *Deep in the bowels of Madeira Island, the Ghost Who Walks deals with the repercussions of the Hammer Strike! And then, Domino Lady tries to commute A Death Sentence of a Russian Hollywood stuntman who fears being found by the Russian Secret Police.

24 PAGES ~ B/W ~ $2.99

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COCKTAIL NATION #141 ~ MONDO LOUNGE!

COCKTAIL NATION #141 ~ MONDO LOUNGE!

This week, Koop talks to the organiser of Mondo Lounge 3, and also finds out about mid century modern homes in Portland and a lady who sells them. Plus, there’s a book about collectible kitchy stuff, our world of swank and a cool blog in the blogoshphere.

It’s the Cocktail Nation bringing the world of swank to your living room.

PLAYLIST:

Martini Kings ~ Days of Wine and Roses
Kenny Sasaki ~ Slow Dancer
Tiki Joes Ocean ~ Haleiwa Under the Midnight Sun
Dexter Gordon ~ The Shadow of Your Smile.
DJ Bonebrake ~ Abstract
HB Radke ~ Baby Skye
Les Baxter ~ Venzuela
Jackie Gleason ~ The House Is Haunted
Hugo Montenegro ~ Perfidia
Duke Ellington ~ Flirtibird
Pink Martini ~ Tea For Two
Ernestine Anderson ~ My Kinda Love
Spy Fi ~ Then Play Down
Tak Shindo ~ High Noon

TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE

PULP NOW: THE SHADOW ~ RADIO TREASURES!

PULP NOW: THE SHADOW ~ RADIO TREASURES!

NOW AVAILABLE FROM RADIO SPIRITS!

Radio listeners first heard the sinister laugh of The Shadow on July 31, 1930. This 80th anniversary treasury includes two never-before-released shows starring Orson Welles and Margot Stevenson - "Revenge on the Shadow" and "The Hospital Murders"- from previously lost transcription records.

This 9-Hour digitally restored and remastered collection also includes the premiere broadcast of the 1937 radio revival, Agnes Moorehead's final network appearance as Margot Lane, and performances by Bill Johnstone, Bret Morrison, Marjorie Anderson, Grace Matthews, Lesley Woods, Richard Widmark, Kenny Delmar, Ken Roberts, Frank Readick, James LaCurto, and more.

The Shadow's concealed confrontations with mad scientists, evil mystics, and political players…his menacing meddling in the affairs of religious cults and gamblers…his enigmatic escapades all over the globe, from Broadway theaters to exotic Egypt still thrill after 8 decades!

Includes Program Guide by Anthony Tollin with photographs and background information about the series.

9 HOURS ~ 9 CDs ~ $35.95

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PULP NOW: DYNAMITE DAMES 2011 WALL CALENDAR!

PULP NOW: DYNAMITE DAMES 2011 WALL CALENDAR!

NOW AVAILABLE!

Dynamite Dames Wall Calendar: Hot dames, old flames and flashy trollops. These wily, scheming dangerous women are pure dynamite. In the 1940's, eight percent of pulp fiction readers were male. The paperbacks were instantly recognizable by their tawdry artwork and suggestive titles. This wall calendar features a dozen pulp fiction covers.

$13.95

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THE ROPED SQUARE!

THE ROPED SQUARE!

JOHN G. ROWE

MELLIFONT SPORTS SERIES #36
UK ~ PAPERBACK ORIGINAL ~ 1941

THE MYSTERY FILE CARRIED A COOL FORGOTTEN BOOKS POST ON A BOXING NOVEL I DON’T HAVE IN MY OWN LIBRARY . . .

Not my usual type of reading fare, but the book’s in the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin, so when a copy came to hand, and being suspicious of its origin as part of a “sports” series, I thought I’d check it out, browsing my way through, and see exactly how “criminous” it actually was.

And before I knew it, nearly an hour had gone by, and I was well over half way through (128 pages of small print). Jim Ballard, a strapping young lad, is indeed a boxer, as you may have guessed from the title, or he would be, if his mother didn’t frown so upon his desire to become one.

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MYSTERY SCENE ~ FALL ISSUE #116!

MYSTERY SCENE ~ FALL ISSUE #116!

KATHY REICHS, WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER, MYSTERY COOKBOOKS, SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER SISTER AND MUCH MORE!

NEWS FROM KATE STINE . . .

We've got a terrific Fall Issue in the works. Kathy Reichs, whose forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan stars in both print and TV, has taken multi-tasking to unprecedented levels. She's a fascinating person and a great interview. We also talk to William Kent Krueger, long known as a "writer's writer," but now a general favorite. Sherlock Holmes gets his comeuppance from a source close to home in Nancy Springer's terrific Enola Holmes YA novels and we review hundreds of the season's best books.

When Brian and I took over Mystery Scene in Fall 2002, our first issue coincided with the one-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks. In remembrance, that first issue offered essays from several crime writers. SJ Rozan's contribution, "My New York," is one of the finest pieces to ever appear in Mystery Scene and one we're proud to offer now at the MS Website.

Look for more contests and giveaways in this newsletter, at our website and in the magazine!

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HARDBOILED CORNER: JOE PUMA P.I.

HARDBOILED CORNER: JOE PUMA P.I.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT

A NEW e-COLLECTION FOR YOUR KINDLE ~ $3.99

In the dangerous and oftentimes cynical world of private investigations, Beverly Hills-based private eye Joseph Puma is a refreshing breath of fresh air. In his job, he often encounters the seedier side of life, and yet, he retains that idealism that justice must be served. “A man is dead,” he says. “Isn’t it important to you?”

Oftentimes broke and needing to pawn his old Chevrolet, Joe nevertheless finds time to help old friends and strangers, even without pay. He does not shy away from danger, if he thinks he is helping people.

As a licensed detective looking for missing persons, and investigating questionable characters murders, and kidnapping, Joe’s big and muscular physique certainly comes as a big help. His strong punch has gotten him out of sticky situations, and his quick thinking has helped save his life a few times.

In this collection, however, Joe finds himself in a rough spot more than a few times. He endures being knocked out and imprisoned, hides from gun-toting enemies underwater while losing blood, gets TKO’d by a heavy and unexpected punch and woken up by a bucket of water, and is a hair’s breadth away from dying when he was shot at and crashed his car.

The big Italian manages to emerge triumphant in the end. However, he doesn’t come out of his adventures unscathed. In his daily battle against murderers and people who consider a man’s death lightly, Joe feels the burden of his profession. He suffers guilt for the death of a colleague, and in the course of an investigation, he also has to choose between justice and a friend.

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PULP NOW: RAGNAR NOIR!

PULP NOW: RAGNAR NOIR!

ACCORDING TO THE VAN EATON GALLERY WEBSITE . . .

RAGNAR is a graphic designer, illustator, animator, and master draftsmen. His work is admired within every industry he is associated, and his vision is unparalleled.

I’M NOT SURE I’D GO THAT FAR, BUT HE DOES HAVE SOME COOL FAUX-COVERS . . .

TO CHECK OUT HIS PULPISH NOIR GALLERY CLICK HERE

TALES OF THE RED PANDA: THE ANDROID ASSASSINS!

TALES OF THE RED PANDA: THE ANDROID ASSASSINS!

GREGG TAYLOR

THE NEW RED PANDA NOVEL!

A city beset by the darkness and desperation of the Depression balances upon a knife edge, ready to plunge into chaos and despair. The forces of darkness have been held thus far at bay by a pair of red gauntleted fists, but on how many fronts can Toronto's masked champion fight at one time? An unseen manipulator is pulling the city's surviving businesses to the brink of collapse for his own fiendish purposes just as an old foe returns to unleash his bitter fury upon innocent lives. Who will survive the power of... The Android Assassins?

FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE

ESPIONAGE CENTRAL: SIN CITY SPY ~ TEASER!

FORGOTTEN BOOKS: THE SWEET SUMMER!

FORGOTTEN BOOKS: THE SWEET SUMMER!

WILLIAM KELLEY

To celebrate my 100th Forgotten Books post, I wanted to feature a very special book – my favorite boxing novel, The Sweet Summer.

Author William Kelley’s main claim to fame is the screenplay for the Harrison Ford movie, Witness. He’s also done a lot of television scripts and other novels, but for me, The Sweet Summer is his highest achievement.

It’s the summer of 1947, and young Irish pugilist Cully Madden finds himself as the only grain of salt in the otherwise all-black Air Force boxing team. Through Cully, and the deep friendships he forms with his teammates, we see the barbaric world of racism in a new way. There is cruel honesty on the pages along with the viciousness of fights both in an out of the ring, so much so, I never questioned the truth of the scenes as they are presented.

In the late ‘40s deep South settings of flop houses, make-shift boxing rings, and swamp shanties, you can feel the grit and suffer in the humidity as the team fights with a desperation to maintain their honor and dignity in a world refusing to acknowledge them.

THE SWEET SUMMER

The Sweet Summer is a powerful story of moral awakening told through the voice of Cully Madden, a young airman and aspiring priest who joins the all-black Air Force boxing team in the summer of 1947. During the team’s tour of the South, Cully’s friendships with his teammates deepen as they face their opponents in dilapidated vaudeville halls, on the rusting hulks of barges moored at backwater Mississippi River towns, and in remote Louisiana canebrakes.

As the prey of redneck mobs and despicable small-town sheriffs, the teammates often find themselves continuing their battles outside the ring – bloody lessons that teach Cully to understand the source of the ferocity that enables his friends to survive in the brutal world he couldn’t imagine before.

The Sweet Summer is a moving account of deep friendship between a white man and his black peers in a time and place where such relationships were rare and held in contempt. It portrays with brutal honesty the humiliations suffered by African Americans in the Jim Crow South.

This is a novel filled with courage, friendship, honor, compassion and heroism. It is a special book to me as it speaks loudly on so many levels. Upon finishing it again recently, I felt I’d lived through the era and was bloodied and bruised from fighting through every punch.

Great stuff. Possibly even important stuff.

STARK COVER CLAVALCADE!

STARK COVER CLAVALCADE!

STEVE HOLLAND IS FEATURING A GAGGLE OF COVERS FROM STARK/WESTLAKE’S PARKER NOVELS ON HIS BEAR ALLEY BLOG TODAY . . .

TO CHECK IT OUT CLICK HERE

STILL MISS YOU . . .

STILL MISS YOU . . .

MY BEST PAL . . . THREE YEARS GONE TODAY . . .

RED SONJA #51!

RED SONJA #51!

WRITER: ERIC TRAUTMANN
COVERS: JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, PAUL RENAUD, WALTER GEOVANI, PAUL RENAUD

RED SONJA RETURNS TO HER ROOTS UNDER THE SKILLFUL HAND OF NEW WRITER ERIC TRAUTMANN!

$3.99

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THRILLER CORNER: I WAS WAITING FOR YOU!

THRILLER CORNER: I WAS WAITING FOR YOU!

MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI

The new novel by the “King of the Erotic Thriller” (The Times)

A young Italian woman flees her home in Rome and gets involved with the wrong man in Paris.

Cornelia, the fearless stripper and killer for hire, who proved such a hit in previous novels, is back and on another mission to kill.

As the two women’s paths intersect, an English crime writer down on his luck is mistaken for a private eye and goes on a quest for a missing person.

From New York to Paris, and then on a thrilling journey through Barcelona, Tangiers, Venice and then finally to a small medieval town outside Rome, the waltz with darkness of the three characters in search of love, lust and redemption becomes ever more poignant and mysterious.

Sexy, sad, breathless, a memorable tale of lost souls caught in a spider’s web of their own making.

Maxim Jakubowski is an award-winning author. He founded the Murder One bookshop in London. He has written seven crime and erotica novels and two short story collections. He has also edited over 70 anthologies including the Xcite Sex in The City series and the annual Mammoth Books of Best New Erotica and British Crime. A past columnist for Time Out and the Guardian, he regularly appears on TV and radio. He is a winner of the Anthony and Karel Awards.

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PULP NOW: GLEN ORBIK WEBSITE!

PULP NOW: GLEN ORBIK WEBSITE!

ORBIK’S ILLUSTRATIONS HAVE BEEN HEATING UP THE COVERS OF THE GABRIEL HUNT NOVELS AND HARD CASE CRIME CAPERS FOR QUITE A WHILE NOW. HIS WEBSITE CONTAINS NUMEROUS HARDBOILD OR NOIR-ISHLY COOL IMAGES . . .

TO CHECK IT OUT CLICK HERE

ERIN BOHEME @ CATALINA JAZZ CLUB!

ERIN BOHEME @ CATALINA JAZZ CLUB!

THRURSDAY SEPTMBER 23, 2010

HELP MARTINI-IN-THE-MORNING.COM CELEBRATE THEIR 4TH ANNIVERSARY AT THE CATALINA JAZZ CLUB FEATURING THE EVER TALENTED ERIN BOHEME . . . IT’S GOING TO BE A GREAT EVENING . . . SEE YOU THERE . . .

CATALINA'S JAZZ CLUB
6725 W SUNSET BLVD
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
(323) 466-2210

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ESPIONAGE CENTRAL: SPY GUYS AND GALS!

ESPIONAGE CENTRAL: SPY GUYS AND GALS!

THERE IS A NEW FAN-STYLE WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING DEDICATED TO SPY FICTION, SPY GUYS & GALS . . .

Say the word SPY to most people and they will respond with James Bond, with good reason as he is the best known of all fictional spies. With 20+ blockbuster movies over the last 40+ years, along with the standard movie hype, virtually the entire world knows about 007 and his License To Kill.

Of course, James Bond is by no means the only spy in the world of fiction, just the best known. Who are the rest? Who has his or her own license to kill, thrill, or chill. How do these agents stack up against each other? Who would you want beside you in a car chase, in a knife fight, in a dark alley, or beneath the covers?

This site is dedicated to the many, many men and women who, at least in fiction, have defended our freedoms against all forms of enemies, foreign and domestic. Well, granted a few of them were just in it for the money and many were only after the excitement, and sex played a huge role in the motivation of more than a few. But still, their actions helped not only preserve our way of life (on paper) but also brought us, the readers, many hours of escapism and vicarious pleasure.

TO GET YOUR OWN DEBRIEF CLICK HERE

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THE BLONDE IN THE RED CORVETTE!

FRED ZACKEL
A NEW e-NOVELLA FROM THE AUTHOR OF ONE OF MY LONG TIME FAVORITE HARDBOILED PI NOVELS, COCAINE AND BLUE EYES . . .

NEW! ONLY $2.99!
Sheriff's Deputy Owen Kaczala noticed the red Corvette first. An absolutely gorgeous car, even in a howling blizzard after midnight. Then he saw the blonde. Tall, thin and beautiful, she wore only a bright yellow sun dress. She was also barefoot and wore no winter clothes. That’s when he saw, on the belly of her bright yellow sun dress, the huge bloody hand print.

A NEW HALLOWEEN 20,000-WORD BLOOD-WARM NOVELLA FROM THE AUTHOR OF MURDER IN WAIKIKI, COCAINE AND BLUE EYES, AND A DEATH IN KEY LARGO.

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THE CAT'S MEOW!

WHY DINASOURS ARE EXTINCT!

NIKITA ~ SERIES PREMIRE!

NIKITA ~ SERIES PREMIRE!

TOMORROW NIGHT!

I’VE ENJOYED LA FEMME NIKITA IN ALL OF ITS VARIOUS INCARNATIONS. THE BUZZ ON THIS LATEST VERSION IS THE SHOW IS DARK AND WELL DONE. IT LOOKS GREAT . . .

When she was a deeply troubled teenager, Nikita was rescued from death row by a secret U.S. agency known only as Division, who faked her execution and told her she was being given a second chance to start a new life and serve her country. What they didn’t tell her was that she was being trained as a spy and assassin. Ultimately, Nikita was betrayed and her dreams shattered by the only people she thought she could trust.

Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former bosses that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation. For the time being, however, Division continues to recruit and train other young people, erasing all evidence of their former lives and turning them into cold and efficient killers. One of these new recruits, Alex, is just beginning to understand what lies ahead for her and why the legendary Nikita made the desperate decision to run.

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SOMETHING DIFFERENT: OUR TRAGIC UNIVERSE!

SOMETHING DIFFERENT: OUR TRAGIC UNIVERSE!

SCARLETT THOMAS

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT YET READABLE AND INTELLIGENT, YOU CAN'T GO FAR WRONG WITH A SCARLETT THOMAS NOVEL (MY FAVORITE IS POPCO), AND OUR TRAGIC UNIVERSE IS NO EXCEPTION . . .

Can a story save your life?

Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend’s only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting.

But who wants to live forever?

Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through Our Tragic Universe, asking this and many other questions. Does she believe in fairies? In magic? Is she a superbeing? Is she living a storyless story? And what’s the connection between her off-hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of The Science of Living Forever?

Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas’s trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.

ZOMBIE CENTRAL: ZOMBIE TRAMP!

ZOMBIE CENTRAL: ZOMBIE TRAMP!

Cal Arts animation graduate Dan Mendoza unleashes his trademark cute-but-dark Toxic Candie style, in this, his first full length comics work. SR Graphics Presents: Zombie Tramp collects his full three issue cult favorite series in one 112 page volume, complete with a making-of section featuring the sketches and designs that brought this fetish pinup grindhouse girl to undead comic book life, along with newly painted cover art by Lee Moyer.

Janey Belle was Hollywood’s hottest high priced call girl, until her Madame set her up on a date with the undead. Now she walks the night… in search of revenge! It's sexy cool zombie time -- with zombie convicts, voodoo queens, and LAPD all hot on our Zombie Tramp’s trail!

THIS OCTOBER SUPER REAL GRAPHICS PRESENTS THE BRAND NEW ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL, ZOMBIE TRAMP, BUT TO GET A FIVE PAGE PREVIEW OF THE BOOK’S UNDEAD PAGES RIGHT NOW CLICK HERE

CHEMO: THE TOWN OF GOLDEN WOODS!

CHEMO: THE TOWN OF GOLDEN WOODS!

NEW FROM 19 NOCTURNE BOULEVARD . . .

ADAPTED BY JULIE HOVERSON FROM A STORY BY J.M. PERKINS

A secret organization dedicated to fighting the Unknown finds something . . . wrong in a small town.

What kind of a place is it?

Why it's a secret headquarters, can't you tell?

TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE

CLASSIC COVERS: DRUMBEAT ~ DOMINIQUE!

CLASSIC COVERS: DRUMBEAT ~ DOMINIQUE!

STEPHEN MARLOWE

PER THE KITSCH BLOG:

Chester Drum, international private eye, is one of my favorites.

Stephen Marlowe (born Milton S. Lesser) not only plotted a series of lively (if improbable) jet-setting adventures, but also there was an overarching story to the entire series. Drum actually has a beginning and an ending - the character grows, the supporting cast changes and things happen for a purpose.

Also, the covers are fantastic.

CAT PAKOUR!

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PULP NOW: INCOGNITO ~ SERIES 2!

PULP NOW: INCOGNITO ~ SERIES 2!

A VERY COOL PULP COVER FROM SEAN PHILLIPS . . .

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PULP NOW: SWISS ARMY WOMAN!

PULP NOW: SWISS ARMY WOMAN!

THE PULP GIRLS WEBSITE HAS POSTED THEIR FIRST GRINDHOUSE THEATER COMIC FEATURE, SWISS ARMY WOMAN – THE GIRL WITH A POCKET KNIFE FOR A LEG!

TO CHECK IT OUT CLICK HERE

THEN CLICK TO ENLARGE

PULP NOW: PULP GIRLS!

PULP NOW: PULP GIRLS!

GIRLS + WEAPONS x DANGER!

Jason Martin is planning a series of comics and trading cards featuring "concepts and art inspired by pulp tales (jungle girls, space heroes, horror tales, etc) and grindhouse/exploitation cinema (not just the recent movie, but the genre that inspired it), and similar subversive or outlandish genre fare, all with the twist that they feature strong girl-centric leads."

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SCI-FI CORNER: HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERS!

SCI-FI CORNER: HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERS!

CHARLES YU

With only TAMMY – a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues – a software boss called Phil – Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 – and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He’s spent the better part of a decade navel-gazing, spying on 39 different versions of himself in alternate universes (and discovered that 35 of them are total jerks).

And he’s kind of fallen in love with TAMMY, which is bad because she doesn’t have a module for that. With all that’s on his mind, perhaps it’s no surprise that when he meets his future self, he shoots him in the stomach.

And that’s a beginner’s mistake for a time machine repairman. Now he’s stuck in a time loop, going in circles forever. All he has, wrapped in brown paper, is the book his future self was trying to press into his hands.

It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. And he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could save him.

PULP NOW: MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ~ 25 YEARS AGO!

LOUNGE CENTRAL: MARTINI IN THE MORNING!

LOUNGE CENTRAL: MARTINI IN THE MORNING!

CONGRATULATIONS AND HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY TO MARTINIINTHEMORNING.COM

STILL SWINGIN' . . .

STILL STYLING . . .

STILL THE PLAYING THE COOLEST OF THE COOL . . .

RING-A-DING-DINGING!

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FLICK ATTACK!

FLICK ATTACK!

COOL NEWS FROM BOOKGASM . . .

While Bookgasm takes Labor Day off, we’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our newest site, officially launching today after a summer in the making: Flick Attack! Just what the Internet needs: another effin’ movie site!

But Flick Attack is different: We’ll have no news. No scoops. No rumors. No set reports. Just one kick-ass review a day, Monday through Friday, with the occasional article on Saturday to make your weekend that much awesomer.

Yep, that’s right: Every day you get one review, so take it or leave it. While everyone else pees their pants over the latest and soon-to-be-latest multiplex releases, we’re gonna dig through our archives and toss out something that’s most likely not playing a theater near you. Maybe you’ve heard of it; maybe you haven’t; maybe it’s easy to find; maybe it’s not — doesn’t matter, and we don’t care. You will read it, and you will like it.

So if you like discovering cinematic trash-terpieces, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got horror, sci-fi, action, kung fu, comedy and sex. But no drama. If it’s tears you want, we’ll be happy to kick you in the shin.

TO CHECK OUT FLICK ATTACK CLICK HERE

TAKE A CHANCE MONDAYS!

TAKE A CHANCE MONDAYS!

AN ONGOING SERIES HIGHLIGHTING POSSIBLY DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH e-BOOKS BY RELATIVELY UNKNOWN AUTHORS, FOUND WHILE CRUISING THE e-BOOK SHELVES ON AMAZON WITH PRICES THAT MAKE THEM WORTH TAKING A CHANCE ON. SOME MAY BE CRAP, SOME COULD SHOW POTENTIAL, OTHERS (I SUSPECT VERY, VERY, FEW) MIGHT BE GREAT – TAKE A CHANCE . . .

TODAY’S FIND . . . PARANORMAL MYSTERY . . .

THE MARHAT FILES ~ FRANK TUTTLE

DEAD MAN’S RAIN!
Can a haunted man help the dead find peace?

Markhat is a Finder, charged with the post-war task of tracking down sons and fathers gone suddenly missing when an outbreak of peace left the army abandoned where they stood. But now it-s ten years on after the war, and about all he-s finding is trouble.
This time, trouble comes in the form of a rich widow with a problem. Her dearly departed husband, Ebed Merlat, keeps ambling back from the grave for nocturnal visits. Markhat saw a lot of during the war, but he-s never seen anyone, rich or poor, rise from the grave and go tromping around the landscape. But for the right price, he-s willing to look into it.

As a storm gathers and night falls, Markhat finds darker things than even murder lurk amid the shadows of House Merlat.

Warning, this title is rife with the walking dead, sarcastic butlers, barking dogs and ghostly dances.THE BANSHEE’S WALK!
No secret stays buried forever.

When patron of the arts Lady Erlorne Werewilk hires Markhat to identify the parties who are stealthily mapping out the Lady-s estate by moonlight, Markhat anticipates the usual-greedy relatives or rapacious neighbors plotting a land grab. After all, muses Rannit-s most feckless Finder, the Lady runs a colony filled with young artists. Aside from snits over color and perspective, how dangerous could a squabble over a backwoods house possibly be?

With new partner Gertriss in tow, Markhat takes the Lady-s case. Before the first night is done, the house is visited by murder, mayhem, and the haunting wail of what may be a genuine banshee, come to herald not just one death, but the deaths of all within. Trapped in a house under siege, Markhat must make a desperate gamble with an old enemy to win the race to unlock the secret that lies beneath the Lady-s lands. And find a way to turn that secret against the powerful forces converging on House Werewilk.

Warning: This Markhat adventure involves suggestions of impending matrimony, full-scale gluttony, and misuse of fermented beverages. Persons with weak constitutions or persons currently at the halfway mark of a thousand-meter tightrope walk above a crocodile-infested river should refrain from reading this work of fiction in dimly-lit drawing rooms, which should never be constructed above crocodile-infested rivers in the first place.HOLD THE DARK

Demons in a feeding frenzy drive the world-weary Markhat to the brink-

Quiet, hard-working seamstresses aren't the kind that normally go missing, even in a tough town like Rannit. Martha Hoobin's disappearance, though, quickly draws Markhat into a deadly struggle between a halfdead blood cult and the infamous sorcerer known only as the Corpsemaster.

A powerful magical artifact may be both his only hope of survival-and the source of his own inescapable damnation.

Markat-s search leads him to the one thing that's been missing in his life. But even love's awesome power may not save him from the darkness that's been unleashed inside his own soul.

Warning: This gritty, hard-boiled fantasy detective novel contains mild romance and interludes of suggestive hand-holding.THE CADAVER CLIENT
Markhat-s new client is already dead and buried-or is he? The Markhat Files, Book 4 Humans, Trolls and even the halfdead have all passed through Markhat-s door-more than once-seeking his services as a finder of missing persons and lost loves. This is a first, though. This time, his client is a dead man. At least that-s what Granny Knot claims. But as long as the coin is real, Markhat has no trouble working for a guilt-ridden ghost.

Trouble is exactly what he finds, and soon he suspects his client, ghost or not, has darker motives for finding his estranged wife than the reconciliation he claims. Left with a cadaver for a client, a spook doctor for a partner, and Mama Hog as advisor on all things spiritual, Markhat must unravel a dark mystery ten years old, and do it before another grave is filled.

Maybe his own.

Warning: This work of fiction involves the occult, several rather questionable uses of stuffed birds, the release of sarcasm inside a cemetery and numerous disparaging portrayals of wood elves.

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