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

Viharo, Will

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."...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

Vic Valentine, Private Eye is back in business—as a dog walker. A really, really bad one. While drunk in a dive bar one rainy Seattle night, one of his canine clients tied up outside goes missing. The twisted trail leads him from Vancouver to Minneapolis to Houston to Mexico City and then all the way down to Costa Rica. Along the way he encounters nefarious businessmen, dangerous drug dealers, tropical cocktails, flesh-eating zombies, voracious vampire women, and a luscious Latina bombshell that may or may not turn out to be the long lost love of his life… Join Vic in his frantic search for the missing pooch, exotic sexual escapades, voluptuous voodoo vengeance, and a quest for the meaning of Life in a dog-eat-dog world.

Vic Valentine: International Man of Misery (Vic Valentine, Private Eye)

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