A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge is a lushly lurid, exotically exploitative, sensationally sensual pulp-noir potpourri where star-crossed lovers, sea sirens, monster men, gangsters, porno filmmakers, jazz standards, and an Elvis-spawned zombie apocalypse all intermingle across several parallel dimensions in time and space. This story is unlike anything you've ever read.

A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Viharo, Will

Fantasy

lulu.com

Vic Valentine is lost inside the space between his ears. His lifelong slow-burning mental meltdown, sexual obsessiveness, fatal self-absorption, and epic existential angst have resulted in a complete break from conventional external reality. Now convinced his entire life is a movie, he finds himself trapped on Planet Thrillville, encountering voluptuous alien femme fatales, mutated monsters, intergalactic gangsters, his own unleashed demons, and his arch nemesis, “Will the Thrill,” the evil overlord of Vic’s own alternative internal universe. Not exactly noir. Not exactly horror. Not exactly science fiction. Not even a story, really. This is a psychotic, psychotronic journey you experience, not merely read.

Vic Valentine: Space Cadet

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

Thrillville Press

Lounge lizard. International man of misery. Space cadet. Dog walker. Lover. Loner. Fighter. Fool. Vic Valentine has been all of these things and more, and less-much less. These fourteen torrid tales of forbidden love, shameless lust, surrealistic horror, existential mystery, pointless mayhem, and just plain stupidity spanning Vic's entire pathetic life collectively illuminate the darkest corners of the human condition, without revealing a single god damn truth, other than we're all lonely globs of ephemeral flesh wandering aimlessly around a big ball of shit hanging by a thread in a vast, apathetic void. Welcome to the hypnotic, erotic, neurotic world of Vic Valentine, Private Eye.

Vic Valentine, Private Eye: 14 Vignettes

Ex-private eye/dog walker/daydreamer Vic Valentine finds himself in the midst of a global pandemic, lost and alone except for the phantoms from his past who haunt him amid an apocalyptic kaleidoscope of memories, fantasies, and delusions. His quest for the Truth behind his existential predicament propel him, and his imaginary audience, onward through this erotic, cosmic odyssey probing the very meaning and value of consciousness itself. Initially published in weekly serialized vignettes on author JJ Sinisi's noir website and Instagram account This Desperate City, VIC VALENTINE FEVER DREAMS collects them all into one surrealistic, seamless narrative arc of interconnected mood pieces.

Vic Valentine Fever Dreams

Genre Fiction

Vic Valentine has finally retired from the private eye racket. And since his beautiful new bi-sexual, black-belt burlesque-dancer bride, Ava Margarita Valentina Valdez Valentine, who may also be a witch or a vampire or both, has a mysterious and possibly nefarious source of seemingly endless wealth, he no longer walks dogs for income, either. Vic is finally living the life of his wildest dreams! Until the Universe sucker-punches him yet again, and it suddenly melts into a noir nightmare¿

Vic Valentine: Lounge Lizard For Hire (Vic Valentine, Private Eye)

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of “double features” reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions.     Volume One: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge and Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room is the literary equivalent of a classic “grindhouse” bill: twin erotic fever dreams exploding with malevolent monsters, sexy sirens, gruesome gangsters, zeitgeist zombies, dreamy decadence, hipster hedonism, voluptuous violence, nightmarish nihilism, sensuous surrealism, pop culture potpourri, and much, much more. They are like nothing you've ever experienced.    Praise for A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge:    “...turning into a lizard, zombies taking over the world, pornographic movie making and twists aplenty and the result is one highly intriguing, complex novel...” - Keith Nixon, Big Al's Books and Pals    “In a cookie-cutter literary world chock-full of imitation and repetition, Will Viharo carves out a thoroughly original ride...Think David Lynch and Raymond Chandler catching a matinee together as the world falls apart. Sexy, smart, surreal. Can't recommend enough.” - Joe Clifford, author of Lamentation and Junkie Love    Praise for Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room:    “'Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room' starts fast and hard and absolutely does not let up until the end. It’s not for everyone; this is a not a book that will ever end up on Oprah’s recommended reading list, but for those folks who like their fiction twisted, brutal, darkly humorous, and covered in a wide variety of bodily fluids, it’s a fantastic read.” - Karl Middlebrooks, Listless Ennui

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection Volume One: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge/Freaks that Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room

Double Life Press

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of “double features” reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions.  Volume Two: Lavender Blonde (a novel in dialogue) and the satirical crime thriller Down a Dark Alley present a dual dose of extremely graphic, uniquely compelling noir, loaded with more sordid sex and vicious violence than any fifty exploitation films, but also equipped with a stylistic complexity, emotional resonance and psychological depth absent from routine pulp fare.   Praise for The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection Volume Two:   "No human being has absorbed more pulp culture and its seamy sexploitation underbelly than Will Viharo. Thankfully, his warped synapses and calloused, compulsive fingertips are able to repurpose it all and blow it back onto the page -- desperate, determined, delirious, D-cupped...and many other 'D' words as well." -- Eddie Muller, Czar of Noir, author of Dark City Dames, Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of 'Adults Only' Cinema, and Gun Crazy: The Origin of the American Outlaw

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection Volume Two: Lavender Blonde/Down a Dark Alley

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of “double features” reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions. Volume Three: Chumpy Walnut and Selected Short Stories provides a revealing, entertaining look at the author's seminal works while creatively chronicling his artistic evolution, his very first novel being a unique, charming, nostalgic fable suitable for all ages, the remaining assortment of tales wildly ranging in tone and content from bleak to bizarre, from whimsical to wanton, but always stubbornly original. Will “the Thrill” Viharo is a novelist, freelance writer, and former host/producer/programmer of the long-running cult movie cabaret, “Thrillville.” He currently lives in Seattle, WA with his beautiful, brilliant wife Monica and two cool cats, Tiki and Googie. Check out more at www.thrillville.net.

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection Volume Three: Chumpy Walnut & Other Stories

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of "double features" reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions.Volume One: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge and Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room is the literary equivalent of a classic "grindhouse" bill: twin erotic fever dreams exploding with malevolent monsters, sexy sirens, gruesome gangsters, zeitgeist zombies, dreamy decadence, hipster hedonism, voluptuous violence, nightmarish nihilism, sensuous surrealism, pop culture potpourri, and much, much more. They are like nothing you've ever experienced."...turning into a lizard, zombies taking over the world, pornographic movie making and twists aplenty and the result is one highly intriguing, complex novel..." -review of A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge by Keith Nixon, Big Al's Books and Pals"In a cookie-cutter literary world chock-full of imitation and repetition, Will Viharo carves out a thoroughly original ride...Think David Lynch and Raymond Chandler catching a matinee together as the world falls apart. Sexy, smart, surreal. Can't recommend enough." -Joe Clifford, author of Lamentation and Junkie Love, on A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge"'Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room' starts fast and hard and absolutely does not let up until the end. It's not for everyone; this is a not a book that will ever end up on Oprah's recommended reading list, but for those folks who like their fiction twisted, brutal, darkly humorous, and covered in a wide variety of bodily fluids, it's a fantastic read." -Karl Middlebrooks, Listless Ennui

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collecton, Volume One: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge/Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room (The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection)

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of "double features" reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions.Volume Two: Lavender Blonde (a novel in dialogue) and the satirical crime thriller Down a Dark Alley present a dual dose of extremely graphic, uniquely compelling noir, loaded with more sordid sex and vicious violence than any fifty exploitation films, but also equipped with a stylistic complexity, emotional resonance and psychological depth absent from routine pulp fare.

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection, Volume Two: Lavender Blonde/Down a Dark Alley

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