Charlie Wesley is not right in the head. He’s escaped from a mental hospital up north and hitchhiked his way south, the voice of his dead brother urging him on. But when Charlie hits Memphis, the fine line between his delusions and reality shift in the form of the Reverend Phineas Childe—a preacher bent on booze and women; a Man of God with a dark agenda. Charlie is the perfect pawn in the Reverend’s game of retribution. And the small North Mississippi town of Cuba Landing will be the setting for the Reverend’s very personal Apocalypse. . . .

The Bastard Hand

Lowrance, Heath

Literature & Fiction

New Pulp Press

Bluff City Brawler: a Fight Card Story

Action & Adventure

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

City of Heretics is a crime novel about an aging con named Crowe, just out of prison and back in Memphis, ready for some payback against the criminals who got him sent up. Before Crowe can enjoy his revenge he has to track down a brutal murderer cutting a swath through the city—ultimately leading Crowe to confront a bizarre secret society of serial killers masquerading as a Christian splinter-group. PRAISE: "City of Heretics will grab you by the collar and shake the hell out of you. Heath Lowrance presents us with a gripping story that strikes hard and often. Follow Crowe as he heads back into the dangerous and vicious world that he knows so well. A deadly cast of underworld characters provides a killer gauntlet of cutting action, payback, mounting suspense and an ending you’ll never forget. This is an absolute classic that you won’t put down. Spectacular reading." -- Jim Wilsky, co-author of Blood on Blood "In his second novel CITY OF HERETICS, Heath Lowrance spins as fine a hardboiled crime yarn as I've read in a long time. With a complex plot and compelling characters, it's as gritty as the sleet that falls on the streets of Memphis in the winter, and just as slick and dangerous. Lowrance's debut novel THE BASTARD HAND is already a cult classic, and CITY OF HERETICS is even better. – James Reasoner, author of DUST DEVILS." BIO: Heath Lowrance is the author of the cult novel THE BASTARD HAND, as well as a short story collection called DIG TEN GRAVES. His other stories have appeared at Crime Factory, Shotgun Honey, Chi-Zine, Pulp Metal, The Nautilus Engine, and others. He has been a movie theater manager, a tour guide at Sun Studio, a singer in a punk band, and a regular donor of blood for money. He lives in Lansing, Michigan.

City of Heretics

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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

Beetner, Eric

Korpon, Nik

Grant, Christopher

Eagleton, Chad

Funk, Matthew

Short Stories & Anthologies

Charlie Wesley is not right in the head. He’s escaped from a mental hospital up north and hitchhiked his way south, the voice of his dead brother urging him on. But when Charlie hits Memphis, the fine line between his delusions and reality shift in the form of the Reverend Phineas Childe—a hedonistic preacher bent on booze and women; a Man of God with a dark agenda. As Charlie gradually discovers his own innate supernatural power, he becomes the perfect pawn in the Reverend’s game of retribution. And the small North Mississippi town of Cuba Landing will be the setting for the Reverend’s very personal Apocalypse… What People are Saying 
“In the storied waking-up-into-a-nightmare pulp tradition, Heath Lowrance’s The Bastard Hand reads is a lurid thrill. You will finish it in one frenzied sitting, then feel as if you’re awakening from a red-misted trance.” 
—Megan Abbott, author of Bury Me Deep 
“A bastard of a good book. If you like Flannery O’Connor and Jim Thompson, you’re going to love this.” 
—Allan Guthrie, author of Slammer 
“Mean, tough, lurid, intense, and entirely engaging, this novel is a must read for all fans of the hardboiled genre.” 
—Vincent Zandri, author of the Dick Moonlight PI thrillers\n“The Bastard Hand grabs you by the lapels and drags you on a wild, wild bar crawl that leaves you battered and bruised at the gates of hell. Like Jim Thompson jamming with Robert Johnson and Nick Cave on the eve of the apocalypse.” 
—Paul D. Brazill, Pulp Metal Magazine

Genre Fiction

Shotgun Honey Books

Dig Ten Graves

Independently published

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