Murderous revelation draws a photographer intothe dark heart of Athens. The sole survivor of a space-stranded cultfaces oblivion at the seat of the universe. Balkan scavengers turntoward ancient ways to thrive in an apocalyptic wasteland. Flesh magic,'80s hardcore, immortal aliens. Chaotic detectives and black-glovedkillers. Nine stories by the author of Long Lost Dog Of It. "Existentialist horror that's never bound to form." --COMPLEX "Gripping and memorable." --LITREACTOR "His observational skills on the human condition are sharper than fuck, with verbal skills to match. Every writer should care as much as this." --John Skipp, FANGORIA

Gravity

Literature & Fiction

Kazepis, Michael

Genre Fiction

Broken River Books

You haven't heard of William Colton Hughes. Or, if you have, then you're not telling anybody. Not telling them anything, ever. He's not the serial killer on the news, in the textbooks. He's the one out there still punching his card, and a few other people's too. He is a nightmare come to life, waiting in his apartment for you to knock on his door. William Colton Hughes is living his fantasy: his victims are delivered to his apartment every few days. But when he's suddenly alone, no visitors, nobody to talk to but himself, he begins to lose what little of his mind he has left. Has his benefactor, his employer, been his prison warden all along? His apartment complex a hospital? Is he going to have to go back to heaving dark plastic bags into dumpsters when nobody's looking? Or will Dashboard Mary, a mysterious woman hell-bent on revenge, get to him first? This is William Colton Hughes. Come and knock on his door.

The Least of My Scars

Jones, Stephen Graham

Peckerwood

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ayres, Jedidiah

Thrillers & Suspense

Oakland, 1984. Skinheads prowl the streets, a serial killer talks to God through the business end of a butcher knife, and Mexican dope runners dump their chained enemies into the river alive. Navigating a blasted landscape of feral dogs, crooked cops, and violent criminals is Speedy, an ex-con come home to a litany of problems: the cops want his ass back in prison, his friends are being murdered by the local drug lords, and he still can't figure if his ex-girlfriend wants him or wants him dead. As the tension squeezes tighter and tighter, Speedy enlists the help of his homeless crackhead brother and his bouncer best friend on a suicide mission towards the one grimy light at the end of the tunnel: a big pile of drug money, just waiting to be stolen from the thugs that guard it.Speedy has raised, and he will take whatever he damn well pleases. For better or worse, he is what he is: a savage motherfucker.

Street Raised

Hansen, Pearce

Mystery

Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim's brother, Conway D'Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and still howling for Ray Boy's blood. When the chips are down and the gun is drawn, Conway finds that he doesn't have murder in him. Thus begins a spiral of self-loathing and soul-searching into which he is joined by Alessandra, a failed actress caring for her widowed father, and Eugene, Ray Boy's hellbound nephew. Ray Boy Calabrese is back in Gravesend: some people worship him, some want him dead . . . but none more so than the ex-con himself.

Gravesend

William Boyle

XXX Shamus

Hammond, Red

When he's not holding down a dead-end job or lurking in his mother's basement, Tony Anastos spends his time shooting ultra-low-budget horror flicks. After meeting his sexy fame-hungry coworker Anna, he sees an opportunity to launch his career into cult stardom. But when Tony's plan to jolt their next film's Kickstarter into overdrive calls for real blood, he will sacrifice the last bit of his humanity for a shot at recognition. But it makes sense. Look at him. The stuff he makes, I mean, he's the first one you expect.

The First One You Expect

Cesare, Adam

Published by Broken River Books, United States (2014) ISBN 10: 1940885078 ISBN 13: 9781940885070 Paperback

Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit

Osborne, J. David

June 5th, 2011. The streets of Athens are draped in a thick fog of tension. Hundreds of thousands of activists line the streets to protest the bankrupt government's austerity measures. Riot police patrol the crowd and set up barricades across key intersections. A toothless vagrant scrambles to stay ahead of his past, a young couple struggles to piece their relationship back together, and a killer realizes too late that his number is up. Over the course of 48 hours, they will navigate a labyrinth of sex shows and dive bars, mob fronts and punk shows, fighting both their inner demons and the very real demon stalking the streets with a machine gun in his bag: a sociopathic hitman dressed to the nines and obsessed with JFK.

Long Lost Dog of It

Literary

After his life spirals out of control, a young man navigates a world of juggalos, transients, and petty criminals with Shane, an enigmatic small-time drug dealer with a penchant for body modification.

Black Gum

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