BEAT to a PULP: Hardboiled 2 follows the blood-soaked trail left behind by the 2011 award-winning collection, edited by David Cranmer and Scott D. Parker, and pumps out another thirteen knuckle-breaking, crime tales. With writers from the 1930s and 40s golden era of pulp (Paul S. Powers and Charles Boeckman) and modern hardboiled masters (Robert J. Randisi and Wayne D. Dundee), this wild bunch is set to blaze a rat-a-tat sweep across the pulp fiction landscape. Keeping the body count high are top-shelf stories from Jedidiah Ayres, Eric Beetner, Jen Conley, Matthew C. Funk, Edward A. Grainger, BV Lawson, Tom Roberts, Kieran Shea, and Jay Stringer.

BEAT to a PULP: Hardboiled 2

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Randisi, Robert J.

Dundee, Wayne D.

Beetner, Eric

Conley, Jen

Ayres, Jedidiah

Boeckman, Charles

Cranmer, David

Funk, Matthew C.

Mystery

BEAT to a PULP

The third installment of the newest hardboiled/noir anthology, the indie side of the New York Five. Issue Three marks the return of Switchblade veterans Charles Roland, J.L. Boekestein, and Preston Lang. With fiction work from Anthony Award nominee Eric Beetner, as well as short stories and flash from Joe Ricker, Michael Loniewski, Richard Risemberg, Calvin Demmer, Robert Smith, Ehren Baker, Morgan Boyd, and J.D. Graves. Featuring the frenetic poetic prose of Zakariah Johnson.

Switchblade (Switchblade Volume One)

Graves, J.D.

Boekestein, J. L.

Baker, Ehren

Boyd, Morgan

Risemberg, Richard

Ricker, Joe

Loniewski, Michael

Johnson, Zakariah

Roland,Charles

Literature & Fiction

Caledonia Press

This is it: The very first Switchblade Special Issue. Available for a limited time only. This limited edition publication will be retired from mainstream distribution with the arrival of Switchblade Issue Four. An alternate version of Switchblade Issue Three, Switchblade Issue Three Special is its own standalone volume. Featuring J.L. Boekestein’s poem, “Close Contact”, and new short fiction from Scotch Rutherford, and Aussie crime writer A.B. Patterson. As well as edgy hardboiled noir from the likes of Preston Lang, Charles Roland, Eric Beetner, Michael Loniewski, Ehren Baker, J.D. Graves, Richard Risemberg, Calvin Demmer, and Morgan Boyd.

Switchblade: Special Issue (Issue Three)

Lang, Preston

Demmer, Calvin

Rutherford, Scotch

Patterson, A. B.

Dig Two Graves is a novella-length piece about Val, an ex-con who thinks he has figured out the trick to continuing his bank robbing life without ever getting caught. Except then he gets caught. 
 It?s not his plan that backfires, oh no. There?s a rat somewhere and Val is pretty damn sure who it is ? Ernesto, his prison lover who has joined him on the outside as his partner in bank robbery. 
 Val stalks the city night on the hunt for Ernesto to exact revenge for breaking the ultimate criminal code: you don?t rat out a partner. 
 Along the way Val wrestles with his feelings for another man. Was it a prison infatuation born out of necessity? Or is it something more? And which makes the betrayal sting worse? 
 Populated by small time losers and petty crooks, Dig Two Graves is tough and stripped down like a fight without gloves. The humor is strictly from the gallows and the pace is relentless, plowing through one furious night like burning hate coursing through veins. 
 PRAISE 
 "Dig Two Graves" is the product of a diseased mind, and I mean that in the very best way. If you like stories about revenge and criminals fucking up their own shit, this one's for you." -- Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest and The Adjustment 
 "DIG TWO GRAVES is everything you want a blackly comic revenge tale to be: fierce, fast, funny, and deliciously foregone. You'll know on page one that this story isn't going to go well for anybody involved, but read that page and see if you can look away. I couldn't. It's all in the voice, and Eric Beetner's got a live one. I look forward to hearing more of it." -- Sean Doolittle, author of The Cleanup and Safer 
 "DIG TWO GRAVES, ladies and gentleman is an absolute cracker. Beetner's belting, whip-cracking prose putting me in mind of George V. Higgins at his very best. A must read for any crime/noir fan." Ian Ayris, author of Abide With Me 
 "The plot moves with energy and tension from one scene to the next and the excitement Mr. Beetner stirred in me was palpable. Best of all, though, is the voice of the book. It has the hard-boiled edge of another age. The sarcasm is heavy, the wit sharp as shark teeth and the humour laugh-out-loud." Nigel Bird, author of In Loco Parentis and Dirty Old Town

Dig Two Graves

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A year after the pulse-pounding action of Split Decision, Jimmy Wyler is back in Chicago trying to put his life back together. Working a job washing dishes in a late night diner, Jimmy vows to never get into a boxing ring again. But then, someone needs him. Leo, a teenaged boy who fights hard against the city every day, could use a man like Jimmy. To help save him from his alcoholic father, and to save his only sister from a pimp bent on turning her out. Jimmy must fight again. Fight for the ones who can't fight for themselves. It will take him from fistfights in back alleys to no rules bouts with crowds screaming for blood and all the way back to the orphanage where he grew up. Along the way, blood will be spilled and knuckles will be bruised. More white-knuckle action and epic fights from the Fightcard series. Praise for Split Decision:?It was unpredictable; it put its main protagonist through the ringer; and didn't take the soft option for the resolution. It's that kind of story. I finished it in one sitting. It's that entertaining. Highly recommended.'Permission To Kill ?Split Decision is a prime example of the sort of variety and adventurous storytelling we can expect from the Fight Card series, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended.'James Reasoner, author of Dust Devils and The Blood Mesa ?Split Decision hooked me. Allow enough time to read the whole thing at one sitting, you're not going to want to put it down.'Mike Faricy, author of Russian Roulette and Finders Keepers

A Mouth Full Of Blood

From Award-winning short story writer Eric Beetner comes a collection of hardboiled crime tales about losers, punks and wanna-be criminals. These gritty stories bleed and sweat all over the page, but always with a pitch black sense of humor. For fans of Victor Gischler and Duane Swierczynski as much as Cornell Woolrich and Raymond Chandler these crime tales represent the new wave in pulp writers at its best. Winner of the 2012 Stalker award for Most Underrated Author, a finalist in the Derringer Awards, the Watery Grave International and the Million Writers Award, Eric Beetner's short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Needle Magazine, Crimefactory, A Twist Of Noir, Beat To A Pulp, Pulp Pusher, Powder Burn Flash, Darkest Before Dawn, Thrillers, Killers N Chillers, Flash Fiction Offensive and more. "It's all in the voice, and Eric Beetner's got a live one. I look forward to hearing more of it." -- Sean Doolittle, author of The Cleanup and Lake Country "the product of a diseased mind, and I mean that in the very best way." -- Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest and The Adjustment Eric Beetner is the author of Dig Two Graves and co-author (with JB Kohl) of One Too Many Blows To The Head and Borrwed Trouble. He has also written the Fightcard novellas Split Decision and A Mouth Full Of Blood. His stories have been featured in Pulp Ink, Pulp Ink 2, D*cked, Discount Noir, Grimm Tales, Off The Record and The Million Writers Award:Best New Online Voices. For more information visit ericbeetner.blogspot.com

A Bouquet Of Bullets

It's that time again to uncap the whiskey, smoke em if you got em and tear into eight new hardcore noir tales from some of the hottest crime fiction writers on the planet. It's THUGLIT, baby. GET SOME!!! Through the Perilous Night by Anton Sim Going In Style by Eric Beetner Bet It All On Black by Christopher Irvin Brass by Roger Hobbs Under The Bus by Albert Tucher Gallows Point by Sam Wiebe Allure Furs by Patti Abbott Of Being Darker Than Light by Garrett Crowe

THUGLIT Issue 4

Hobbs, Roger

Tucher, Albert

Wiebe, Sam

Abbott, Patti

Irvin, Christopher

Crowe, Garrett

Sim, Anton

Pile your hair high, shine your leather jacket, pop the switchblade, and turn on the devil's music! Get ready to roar down the desolate American highway with eight tales of hoods, hot rods, and hellcats!"The 1950s are recreated one more time, but here it's with a savage, razor-honed edge you'll never find in Grease, Happy Days, or American Graffiti," from the introduction by the legendary Mick Farren.Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats features brand new fiction from Eric Beetner, Chad Eagleton, Christopher Grant, Matthew Funk, David James Keaton, Nik Korpon, Heath Lowrance, and Thomas Pluck.

Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats

Pluck, Thomas

Keaton, David James

Korpon, Nik

Grant, Christopher

Lowrance, Heath

Eagleton, Chad

Funk, Matthew

Short Stories & Anthologies

All Due Respect is back with thriller author Owen Laukkanen, whose latest book, Kill Fee, is due out in March. We've got some seriously dark stories from CS DeWildt, David Siddall, Joseph Rubas, Eric Beetner, Liam Sweeny, and Scott Adlerberg. And we continue our quest to review every Hard Case Crime book. If you like your fiction hardboiled/noir, this is your magazine. Praise for All Due Respect: "All Due Respect... is full of bars and beatings, guns and grifters, not necessarily the kind of crime to cozy up with by the fire, unless it's one of those burning cars on the side of the road." -- David James Keaton, author of Fish Bites Cop "This is perhaps the best collection of noir and crime short stories I’ve come across." -- Big Al's Books and Pals

All Due Respect Issue 2

Laukkanen, Owen

Rubas, Joseph

Sweeny, Liam

Adlerberg, Scott

Siddall, David

DeWildt, CS

One Too Many Blows To The Head (Ray & Fokoli)

Kohl, JB

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