Get ready to unwrap that present early this year! Stuff your festive stockings with this collection of the weirdest, wildest holiday fiction this side of Charlie’s Dickens. Get your bells jingling and jangling with these tales of mistletoe madness, festive fury, and holiday havoc from some of the most bizarre minds in fiction! Featuring: Steve Brewer (Jackie Nolan series; Side Eye) Sarah L. Johnson (Suicide Stitch; Infractus) David James Keaton (The Last Projector; Stealing Propeller Hats from the Dead) Jessica McHugh (Pins; Rabbits in the Garden) Brent Nichols (Stars Like Cold Fire; Black Dragon Blues) Scott S. Phillips (Pete, Drinker of Blood; Gun Up) Will Viharo (Vic Valentine series; A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge) Laurie Zottman (Dark Little Therapist)

It's A Weird Winter Wonderland

Literature & Fiction

Johnson, Sarah L.

Brewer, Steve

Keaton, David James

Viharo, Will

McHugh, Jessica

Phillips, Scott S.

Nichols, Brent

Zottmann, Laurie

Genre Fiction

Coffin Hop Press LTD

Shallow Ends: A Novel

Podium Publishing

Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction became the globally recognized home of international crime fiction. With this issue, it will also be a home for noir poetry. Noir Nation's content is often dark, sometimes creepy, and sometimes humorous but always at the service of the literary imagination as it explores the darker regions of human experience, where the only crime is weak writing. In this issue: Fiction by Deborah Pintonelli, Nahary Hernandez, JJ Toner, Barbie Wilde, David James Keaton, Ava Black, Simon Rowe, D.V. Bennett, Frauke Schuster, Gerald Heys, and BV Lawson; Poetry by Bianca Bellová, Adam Ward, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Bonny Finberg, and Shawn Stibbards; Nonfiction by Michael Gonzales; and a staff interview with police detective and writer George Beck; And the winners of the First Golden Fedora Poetry Prize: George Perreault, Michael Zimecki, Timothy Ryan, J.D. Smith, Craig Kenworthy, Frank De Blasé, James Gardner, Joe Cortinas, Barry Nathan, and Timothy Tarkelly.

Noir Nation No. 7: The Golden Fedora Poetry Prize Issue

Ward, Adam

Toner, JJ

Wilde, Barbie

Pintonelli, Deborah

BELLOVÁ, Bianca

Vega, Eddie

Rowe, Simon

Black, Ava

Perreault, George

Poetry

Independently published

A collection of unnerving tales:- - by Michael Callahan - -So, It Has come to this, Ten Dollars is All!, Clemency, Persephone in Flight, Cherry, Her Story,Fuzibol of Goden (#237 The Mighty Fall)- - by Paul-Thomas Ferguson - -The Wrong Toolbox, From the Heart, The Unforgotten's Reign, The East Stairwell, Just Three More Minutes, My Brother's Keeper, Gnomestradamus, The Bellkeeper- - by David James Keaton - -Suckerpunchingbag

Pandemonium

Johnston, Teresa

Callahan, Michael

Ferguson, Paul-Thomas

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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

Beetner, Eric

Korpon, Nik

Grant, Christopher

Lowrance, Heath

Eagleton, Chad

Funk, Matthew

Short Stories & Anthologies

Told from the perspective of a sluggish employee of a "Zombie Bed & Breakfast" tourist trap, this horrific love letter (and middle finger) to the zombie world, chronicles the daily workings of a staged zombie assault and rehearsal of an apocalyptic scenario. Filled with tons of zombie movie innuendos and laugh-out-loud jokes, you'll be holding your insides in with one hand and the book in the other. You'll never see the zombie genre the same way again. Zombie Bed and Breakfast (Zee Bee & Bee) is a love letter to the world of zombie movies. Keaton's mischievous wit pitsClerks-esque misfits against the most horrifying foes: bed and breakfast patrons. It's a hilarious look at zombies and the nerds who love to talk about them." - BookedPodcast.com

Zee Bee & Bee (a.k.a. Zombie Bed & Breakfast)

Humor & Satire

Open Casket Press

Red Room is a magazine of extreme horror and hardcore dark crime, full color and fully illustrated.FICTION BY:Jack Ketchum, Meg Elison, Tim Waggoner, David James Keaton, Larry Hinkle, Tom Barlow, Nick Manzolillo, Josh Scott Wilson, and Gil Valle."The Phantom Video Stream" by Nick Manzolillo sets the tone with red-room atmospherics in the story of a man who discovers a hidden channel streaming from what may be another reality.Tim Waggoner's "Are You Crazy?" answers its own question in shocking Waggoner style.Larry Hinkle's "Meat Cute" opens with "Stop staring at her tits!" and ends with a coldblooded revelation. Short and not so sweet.Tom Barlow's "Selfie" demonstrates that two heads aren't always better than one, not when they're spitting images.Meg Elison's "The Middle Child" takes an unflinching look at fame and greed and the mania underlying video virality.In "Sick Jokes" Josh Scott Wilson takes political incorrectness to new heights--and depths.David James Keaton, aka DJK, takes us for a ride into brutal biker mayhem that hits like a jackhammer in "The Flowery." Some tattoos ain't cool.Jack Ketchum reprises "Megan's Law," a disturbing look at what can happen when a child molester moves into a concerned dad's neighborhood. Plus, an exclusive excerpt from the NYPD's "Cannibal Cop" Gil Valle's upcoming Comet Press release of his first novel A Gathering of Evil, which parallels the message-board fantasies that landed him in jail. FEATURES:Duane Bradley takes an irresistible look at the Video Nasties and the uproar those "obscene" video cassettes caused in the UK back in the 1980s. Ben Arzate reviews a formerly out-of-print classic horror novel, which is making a howling comeback. Patrick King reviews one of the best of the recent horror movie releases.Red Room interviews the phenomenal Meg Elison, and David L. Tamarin interviews Gil Valle, getting him to open up about his incarceration by the "thought police."Red Room regular Barfly Bob taste-tests the World's Most F**ked Up adult beverages.A surreal, behind the scenes glimpse at the Red Room headquarters with rogue reporter Brian J. McCarthy.

Red Room Issue 1: Magazine of Extreme Horror and Hardcore Dark Crime (Red Room Magazine)

Waggoner, Tim

Elison, Meg

Valle, Gil

Ketchum, Jack.

Comet Press

Fish Bites Cop! Stories To Bash Authorities is a whole trunk of surprises. A collection of horror, dark crime, pulp, and slipstream lampoonery that gleefully rips on police officers, security guards, organized religion, firefighters, police officers, bounty hunters, dyslexic paramedics with dog complexes, police officers, military, middle management, and even more police officers. Bad Cop movies are usually just bad cop movies. It's time they paid for it. "Bizarre and hysterically twisted, these stories crisscross between the satirical and the pulpy at a maddening pace. I endorse this crazy-ass book! Wild ride. David James Keaton is a writer to keep an eye on." --Frank Bill, author of Donnybrook and Crimes in Southern Indiana 
 "This is exquisite writing and fast-paced storytelling--the peanut butter and chocolate of fiction. Bet you can't read just one." --Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Last Final Girl and Growing Up Dead in Texas 
 "If you're a cop, have ever known a cop, or been arrested by one, or even if you're just one of those people who are scared of cops, FISH BITES COP! is the collection you must read. Also if you like watching, catching, or eating fish. Or cops." --Scott Phillips, author of The Adjustment and The Ice Harvest 
 "Don't expect any nice-making from David James Keaton. FISH BITES COP! is full of people acting badly, and it's as fun to watch them self-destruct as it is to watch a ten-car pileup on the interstate. Trust me: you'll enjoy your couple of hours rubbernecking." --Kyle Minor, author of In the Devil's Territory 
 "David James Keaton by his own confession has a problem with authority. You might say he has a hard-0n for cops, a hard-0n of the nightstick variety he brandishes with abandon, gleefully bashing cliches with his own savvy brand of literary mayhem. Keaton goes Dirty Harry on the cop shop of conventional crime fiction. Heads roll, donuts get gored. It's so good it should be illegal." --Randy Chandler, author of Dime Detective and Bad Juju 
 "Keaton's at his manic best in this collection, populated by prize winners and barn burners, each one coated in his special brand of pulp sauce. These are stories to read by the bonfire as the world burns. In the worlds Keaton conjures here, spinning with barely repressed anarchy, that's the general drift." --Court Merrigan, author of Moondog Over the Mekong 
 "David James Keaton holds the lovechild of convention and expectations down to the hard, concrete floor, puts his hand over its mouth, and slits its throat. Each of the stories in this collection help sop up the blood, his hands wiped cleaned by the time the last story is wrought and reeking of his touch." --Michael Czyzniejewski, author of Chicago Stories 
 "With a command of contemporary slang force-bred with imagery, Keaton is one of the strongest voices in American fiction today. The first story alone is one I will read forever." --Jason Stuart, author of Raise a Holler 
 "Reading these stories feels like the guys in the garage at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre probably felt as the bullets struck them. They will rip you up, tear you apart, and when you're done, you'll be exhausted with emotion but know that you've been in the presence of greatness." --Les Edgerton, author of The Rapist 
 "Quite simply, David James Keaton is a twisted genius, and you read his work at your own risk, risk of a neural or moral melt-down. Keaton's stories are as sickly exuberant and gargantuan as gothic dirigibles, tall tales of teleportation into urban myth and mystery, post-truth, anti-reality, they break every rule of regular fiction and good taste." --Chuck Kinder, author of Last Mountain Dancer 
 "It's Technicolor Noir." --Charlie Trout, reporter for the Pittsburgh Pulp Exchange

Fish Bites Cop!: Stories To Bash Authorities

Edited by Richard Thomas Foreword by Chuck Wendig Cover art by Daniele Serra Interior illustrations by Luke Spooner TABLE OF CONTENTS: Wilderness by Letitia Trent Monster Season by Joshua Blair Cat Calls by Rebecca Jones-Howe Ceremony of the White Dog by Kevin Catalano The Armadillo by Heather Foster The Last Manuscript by Usman T. Malik Single Lens Reflection by Jason Metz The Mother by Nathan Beauchamp Everything in Its Place by Adam Peterson When We Taste of Death by Damien Angelica Walters Figure Eight by Brendan Detzner My Mother's Condition by Faith Gardner Fragile Magic by Alex Kane The Eye Liars by Sarah Read Searching for Gloria by W. P. Johnson And All Night Long We Have Not Stirred by Barbara Duffey Dull Boy by David James Keaton Brujeria for Beginners by Marytza Rubio Heirloom by Kenneth Cain The Owl and the Cigarette by Amanda Gowin Desert Ghosts by Mark Jaskowski Blood Price by Axel Taiari

Exigencies: A Neo-Noir Anthology

Walters, Damien Angelica

Catalano, Kevin

Trent, Letitia

Detzner, Brendan

Dark House Press

In this hysterical fever dream of a novel, meet an unhinged paramedic turned porn director uprooted from an ever-shifting '80s fantasy. Discover a crime that circles back through time to a far-reaching cover-up in the back of an ambulance. Reveal a manic tattoo obsession and how it conspires to ruin the integrity of a film and corrupt identity itself. Unravel the mystery surrounding three generations of women and the one secret they share. And follow two amateur terrorists, whose unlikely love story rushes headlong toward a drive-in apocalypse. "I want to know where David James Keaton buys his pants. There must be some kind of specialty store to buy trousers with enough roominess for him to stuff his immense balls into. The Last Projector (at a whopping 500-plus pages) maintains the sure hand and immense voice of someone well into a long and legendary career. And this is his @#$%&amp;!ing debut. Ridiculously entertaining and well-paced, crossing genres at points with subtle flair that you won't even notice at first, this is the opener for a huge new voice." -Todd Robinson, author of The Hard Bounce and editor-in-chief of Thuglit "The Most Anticipated Book of 2014. Hell, it's the most anticipated book since this podcast has existed." -Booked. "Imagine Harry Crews' grit-filled world head-butting William Gaddis' dense, rollicking literary hopscotch and you're firmly entrenched in David James Keaton country. His thrilling debut,The Last Projector, is the bubbling, epic story of how wonderfully screwed up America is." -Patrick Wensink, author of Broken Piano for President "David James Keaton is a monomaniacal genius, splicing words together in the tail-most room of your movie-saturated snakebrain, and The Last Projector is his masterpiece. It is insane, anarchic, and f*cking brilliant. I can't wait to read it again." -Benjamin Whitmer, author of Cry Father and co-author of Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers, a New York Times Critics' Choice "That thing called 'voice' authors are said to have? Keaton's are legion. That 'Tap, tap, tap' you may hear issuing from this book? I wouldn't open it up without a quick 'Klaatu barada nikto' for good measure." -Jedidiah Ayres, author of Peckerwood and Godfather of the Noir at the Bar reading series "Quite simply, David James Keaton is a twisted genius, and you read his work at your own risk, risk of a neural or moral melt-down... Keaton's stories are like secret maps to murder swamps where the bodies are buried by the serial killers who comprise Keaton's fan clubs... Say you are a mad scientist and you want to make a monster writer of the future, well, first you dig up the corpse of Kafka, get some DNA, then you do the same with David Foster Wallace, then toss some Stephen King and Woody Allen into the mixture. Add a pinch of Poe and Robert Parker, shake the test tube with vigor and presto you have David James Keaton. His writings are as sickly exuberant and gargantuan as gothic dirigibles, tall tales of teleportation into urban myth and mystery, post-truth, anti-reality, they break every rule of regular fiction and good taste." -Chuck Kinder, author of Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale and Last Mountain Dancer

The Last Projector

Broken River Books

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