THE BODY SNATCHERS AFFAIR A Carpenter & Quincannon Mystery By Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini Forge Books 219 pages This is the second Carpenter & Quincannon mystery we’ve had the pleasure of reading and are eager to point you in its direction. Authors Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini are both
THE DAMP FEDORA By Kate Pilarcik Down & Out Books 114 pgs Stream of consciousness writing is the process by which a writer jots down words faster than the output of a Thompson submachine gun. It is not easy to do, as often what ends up on the paper is
SKELOS 1 The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Edited by Mark Finn, Chris Gruber & Jeffrey Shanks Skelos Press 160 pgs. It is always a pleasure being surprised by something straight out of the blue. Perhaps the most extinct publication form today is the genre themed magazine. Over
QUARRY IN THE BLACK By Max Allan Collins Hard Case Crime 209 pages Release Date – Oct 4, 2016 Regardless of one’s opinion of the new “Quarry” Cinemax TV series, it has shined a light on these fantastic books and that is a benefit worth applauding. As Collins says in
CIRCLE CITY SHAKEDOWN (A Phillip Chandler Mystery) By Bill Craig Whiz Bang LLC 274 pgs Bill Craig can knock out a half dozen crime thrillers faster than most established writers can do one. The amazement is, they are all damn good books. With “Circle City Shakedown,” first released in 2014,
STUNT-MAN The Autobiography of Yakima Canutt With Oliver Drake Walker Publishing Company Published 1979 237 pages Having been a fan of the movie serials for most of my life, I was familiar with Yakima Canutt; considered by many to be the most famous stunt man of them all. Sometime in
CIRCLING THE RUNWAY A Jake Diamond Mystery By J.L. Abramo Down & Books 242 pgs We generally do not enjoy books wherein the writer moves back and forth between first and third person narratives. Most of the time these shifts are jarring in that the reader, safely ensconced in the
BARBARIANS ON BIKES Bikers & Motorcycle Gangs in Men’s Pulp Adventure Magazines Edited by Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle A New Texture Book 116 pgs Even since appearing on the pulp scene a few years ago, Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle have done a truly wonderful job of educating the
SINGULARITY Rise of the Posthumans Edited by Jaime Ramos & Wayne Carey Pro Se Press 164 pgs. Shared world anthologies are always fascinating and at the same time a really challenge to pull off properly. In this wonderful book from Pro Se Press, editors Jaime Ramos and Wayne Carey have
THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN (Hour of Darkness) By John C. Bruening Flinch! Books 408 pages The traditional classic pulp novels that appeared in the 30s magazines generally ran 60,000 words. In them one would find a fast paced narrative that would explode across the pages in colorful, purple prose. Over time
CRIMSON SHORE A Pendergast Novel By Preston & Child Grand Central Publishing 370 pages Whenever people ask us what is the best New Pulp Fiction being published today, we’ll invariably point them to the Agent Pendergast novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In the same way Clive Cussler’s Dirk
SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOMINO LADY Edited by Joe Gentile Moonstone Press 120 pages Normally we don’t care for “hybrid” publications. By that we refer to books that have comics strips and prose stories mixed together between two covers; neither a full out graphic novel or a traditional prose anthology. And
