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PULP NOW: THE HUMAN ARROW!
FÉLICIEN CHAMPSAUR
ADAPTED BY BRIAN STABLEFORD
BLACK COAT PRESS - NOW AVAILABLE!
The Human Arrow, written just prior to World War I, is the story of the first non-stop Paris-to-New York flight by rocket-powered plane as it never happened. French engineer Henri Rozal faces tough competition from rivals for the hand of his fiancée, as well as shady dealings from financiers trying to steal his invention. But as the shadow of war looms, is Rozal's utopian dream of a peaceful planet traversed by powerful flying machines fated to turn into an apocalyptic nightmare?
This edition is the first time that the two versions of the story, the original 1917 edition as well as its rewritten conclusion published in 1927, to take into account Charles Lindbergh's flight and the horrors of World War I, have been published in a single volume.
Also included is Champsaur's novella, The Last Man (1885), which describes how a comet increases the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and causes Paris to revert to a jungle, and Man to an ape-like beast.
US$24.95 / 5X8 TRADE PAPERBACK/ 360 PAGES
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TALK LIKE A BEAT DAY!
OKAY, HEPCATS, CAN THE LIP, TURN UP THE STEREO AND FALL IN FOR THE GINCHIEST GROOVE OF ALL TIME . . . UNLESS YOU'RE A MURGATROID FROM DULLSVILLE. WOULD I CHERRY TREE YOU, DADDY-O?
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A BEAT ON THE BONGO TO THAT PARAGON OF COOLNESS BILL CRIDER
HARD CASE CRIME: FALSE NEGATIVE!
HARD CASE CRIME HAS RELEASED THE COVER TO IT’S UPCOMING RELEASE, FALSE NEGATIVE BY JOSEPH KOENIG . . . ART IS BY THE GREAT GLEN ORBIK, AND IT'S ANOTHER STUNNER OF A COVER . . .
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HARDBOILED COLLECTIVE: THE ALABASTER SKINNED MULE!
JOCHEM VANDERSTEEN
It's a busy week for Vandersteen’s hardboiled character Noah Milano . . .
First up, he appears on Thrills, Kills 'n' Chills with a new short story, War Crimes . . .
Next, the Milano short story collection, Tough As Leather, is reviewed at Murderous Musings . . .
And finally, the new Noah Milano novelette, The Alabaster-Skinned Mule, is available in all e-formats, and it’s the most action-packe Milano tale yet.
A pretty young girl is used as a mule, smuggling drugs for Mexican druglords. When she discovers the drugs she gets rid of them. The druglords will do anything to get them back.
She hires Noah Milano, security specialist and ex-mob fixer to protect her. He ends up putting his dearest friendship and his very life on the line for her.
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FEMME FATALES!
MY FAVORITE NOIR-STYLE PHOTOS OF AVA GARDNER . . .
KILLING THE BLUES!
THE KINDLE TAPROOM BLOG HAS A GOOD, EVEN-HANDED, REVIEW OF THE NEW JESSE STONE NOVEL, KILLING THE BLUES, IN WHICH MICHAEL BRANDMAN TAKES OVER THE WRITING REINS FROM THE DECEASED ROBERT PARKER . . . I READ KILLING THE BLUES IN ONE SITTING AND AGREE WITH EVERYTHING IN THE REVIEW . . . THE HOWLING AND GNASHING OF TEETH GOING ON ON KILLING THE BLUES AMAZON PAGE HAS BECOME LAUGHABLE . . . THE BOOK IS WHAT IT IS, WHICH AIN'T BAD . . .
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FIRST IT WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES!
NOW, ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IS TAKING ON PERRY MASON IN 1930'S L.A. . . .
PER VARIETY . . .
Warner Bros. and Team Downey are pairing to adapt the Perry Mason property as a feature film, with Robert Downey Jr. eyeing the project as a potential starring vehicle.
Like the original series of books by Erle Stanley Gardner about the irrepressible defense attorney, "Perry Mason" will be set in the rough-and-tumble world of early 1930s L.A. and feature Mason's secretary, Della Street, private investigator Paul Drake and Mason's longtime courtroom nemesis, Hamilton Burger.
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HARDBOILED COLLECTIVE: ROGUE ISLAND!
BRUCE DESILVA
THIS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL LIVES UP TO THE HYPE AND ITS WELL DESERVED AWARDS . . .
KINDLE VERSION: $9.99
Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and the prostitutes, the cops and the street thugs. He knows the mobsters and the politicians – who are pretty much one and the same. Times are changing fast. Corruption runs amok, and what a reporter has to do in the name of competition is becoming laughable.
But when Mulligan realizes that someone is systematically burning down his childhood neighborhood, he ignores his bosses and his budding relationship to figure out the firebug's identify. People he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the whole city of Providence on his back, Mulligan must weed through a wildly colorful array of characters to find the truth.
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WESTERN PULP: O’DOUL!
WAYNE D. DUNDEE
A DIME NOVEL - SHORT WESTERN ADVENTURE...
I’VE BEEN A FAN OF DUNDEE’S PRIVATE EYE FICTION FEATURING JOE HANNIBAL FOR MANY YEARS . . . GLAD TO SEE HIM KEEPING THE WESTERN TRADITION ALIVE . . .
O’Doul has been a lot of places and done a lot of things in his life. Now, working on a ranch outside Pitchfork Creek, he finds bad things happening all around. The ranch owner and his wife are splitting up and O’Doul is forced to ride herd on a hot-headed cowboy.
When events come to a head, O’Doul makes a deadly decision and goes into action.
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E-SHORTS: SEND MY LOVE AND A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL!
STORIES OF CRIME, LOVE AND REBELLION
ANDREA GIBBONS GARY PHILLIPS
An incendiary mixture of genres and voices, this collection of short stories compiles a unique set of work that revolves around riots, revolts, and revolution. From the turbulent days of unionism in the streets of New York City during the Great Depression to a group of old women who meet at their local café to plan a radical act that will change the world forever, these original and once out-of-print stories capture the various ways people rise up to challenge the status quo and change up the relationships of power.
Ideal for any fan of noir, science fiction, and revolution and mayhem, this collection includes works from Sara Paretsky, Paco Taibo II, Cory Doctorow, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Summer Brenner.
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WESTERN PULP: THE ADVENTURES OF CASH LARAMIE AND GIDEON MILES VOL II!
EDWARD GRAINGER
KINDLE EDITION ~ $.99
THE WORD FROM DAVID CRANMER (AKA: EDWARD GRAINGER) . . .
Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles Vol. II continues to chronicle the tales of two unorthodox 19th century U.S. Marshals. With seven more adventures, this collection includes the novella "Origin of White Deer" where the outlaw marshal leaves his Arapaho home as a teen to find his roots in the lawless town of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
These noir tales infuse the Western genre with a fresh perspective on topics like race relations and social justice while still delivering pulse-racing action in the tradition of Wanted: Dead or Alive and Gunsmoke.
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PULP NOW: TALES OF HIGH ADVENTURE!
WINTER 2011 ~ NOW AVAILABLE!
Thrilling pulp adventure fantasy returns with Tales of High Adventure, a quarterly book of prose stories and illustrated tales as published in the pulp magazines of the 1930's and 1940's such as Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Spicy Mystery Stories, Amazing Stories and Startling Stories!
FEATURED:
AT THE EARTH'S CORE
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Beginning one of the original science fantasy adventures from the fantastic mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
HOMEWORLD
Paul J. Fini
The thrilling illustrated tale of Hamilton West and his astral journey to Homeworld!
DAGON
H. P. Lovecraft
A suicidal morphine-addict recounts his encounter with an ancient blasphemy from the sea!
THE LOST VALLEY
Mike Moran
A Midnight Eagle illustrated tale with Jack and Tosh searching for the missing Dr. Saint!
THE PERUVIAN REPORT
Max Lieberman
The discovery of a horrific tribe in South America worshiping an ancient idol!
QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST
Robert E. Howard
Tales of High Adventure is proud to present the tragic tale of R. E. Howard's pirate she-devil of the Hyborean age!
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
Edgar Allen Poe
A short poem by the master of the macabre!
Read these pulp style fantasy adventures as they were meant to be read!
Hold in your hand and flip through the pages of thrilling adventure!!
52 EDGE OF YOUR SEAT PAGES ~ ALL FOR ONLY $4!
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HARDBOILED CORNER: SHELL SCOTT!
THE FIRST ART FROM THE UPCOMING SHELL SCOTT GRAPHIC NOVEL . . . A HARDBOILED LEGEND REBORN . . .
PER WRITER MARK ELLIS . . .
Here we go...David Enebral's wonderfully atmospheric rendering of Shell Scott...who is apparently realizing anew that the sidewalks of 1960s Hollywood were just as likely to be paved with blood as stars.
COMICS CORNER: QUATERMAIN #1!
COMING IN DECEMBER!
WRITER: CLAY GRIFFITH, SUSAN GRIFFITH
ART: PATRICIO CARBAJAL
Allan Quatermain, famed hunter and trader, treks across East Africa where he runs afoul of the warlord Bwana Nzige, Lord of the Locusts, who rules a vast empire built on blood and ivory. Quatermain finds himself the prey as he is hunted by Nzige's chief assassin, the fearsome sorcerer, Lokongoi.
32 PAGES, FULL COLOR, $3.99
BLUEWATER PRODUCTIONS
HONEY WEST #6!
COMING IN DECEMBER!
STORY: TRINA ROBBINS
ART: SILVESTRE SZILAGYI
COLORS: KEN WOLAK
COVERS: FRANCHESCO
Murder, Forsooth is the way Shakespeare might have put it when Honey goes undercover in a corset and pushup bra at a Medieval Faire, to find out who’s threatening to kill the May Queen. And when those beauty queens go at it tooth and nail, battling for a prize that could lead to stardom, and when that contest might very well be fixed, woe betide the girl who wins, because her jealous rivals might make sure that it’s adios, hasta la vista, so long — at the Faire!
32 PAGES ~ COLOR ~ $3.99 ~ MOONSTONE BOOKS
HONEY WEST: PHASES OF THE MOON #2!
WRITER: MARK RAHNER
ARTIST: GLEN FERNANDEZ, MATT HEBB
COVER: THAD RHODES, BRITTANY JACKSON
A story arc so encompassing, it spans three flip comics, six Moonstone titles and several decades!
Honey investigates a serial killer and discovers links to drugs, cults and political corruption. The heinous murders seem similar to serial killings of years past, but they are so grotesque Kolchak is sure they are supernatural in nature. Can he be far off?
24 PAGES ~ COLOR ~ $2.50 ~ MOONSTONE BOOKS
ESPIONAGE CORNER: ARMED AND GORGEOUS!
BILL RAETZ
NOW AVAILABLE FROM WORLD ESPIONAGE BUREAU PRESS
Bryce Attewelle and a sultry stripper were on the run from a revenge-driven maniac. Could they stay alive long enough to keep him from tasting blood again?
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