TOUGH. These are not your mother's crime stories. Collecting established writers as well as newcomers to the indie scene, Tough aims to bring readers excellent stories in a dynamite package. This anthology contains 14 hardcore pieces from some of the indie scene's best talent.

Tough: Crime Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Cosby, S.A.

Bracken, Michael

LYONS, MATTHEW

Barlow, Tom

Prosch, Richard

Graves, J.D.

Merrigan, Court

Rapacz, Mark

Taylor, J.M.

Mystery

Redneck Press

The third installment of the newest hardboiled/noir anthology, the indie side of the New York Five. Issue Three marks the return of Switchblade veterans Charles Roland, J.L. Boekestein, and Preston Lang. With fiction work from Anthony Award nominee Eric Beetner, as well as short stories and flash from Joe Ricker, Michael Loniewski, Richard Risemberg, Calvin Demmer, Robert Smith, Ehren Baker, Morgan Boyd, and J.D. Graves. Featuring the frenetic poetic prose of Zakariah Johnson.

Switchblade (Switchblade Volume One)

Beetner, Eric

Boekestein, J. L.

Baker, Ehren

Boyd, Morgan

Risemberg, Richard

Ricker, Joe

Loniewski, Michael

Johnson, Zakariah

Roland,Charles

Literature & Fiction

Caledonia Press

This is it: The very first Switchblade Special Issue. Available for a limited time only. This limited edition publication will be retired from mainstream distribution with the arrival of Switchblade Issue Four. An alternate version of Switchblade Issue Three, Switchblade Issue Three Special is its own standalone volume. Featuring J.L. Boekestein’s poem, “Close Contact”, and new short fiction from Scotch Rutherford, and Aussie crime writer A.B. Patterson. As well as edgy hardboiled noir from the likes of Preston Lang, Charles Roland, Eric Beetner, Michael Loniewski, Ehren Baker, J.D. Graves, Richard Risemberg, Calvin Demmer, and Morgan Boyd.

Switchblade: Special Issue (Issue Three)

Lang, Preston

Demmer, Calvin

Rutherford, Scotch

Patterson, A. B.

Switchblade returns with another lethal dose of outlaw fiction. Rage, retribution, revenge—that’s just the tip of the stiletto. Greed, bloodlust, infamy—the more you read, the deeper the laceration; twisting as it mangles. Featuring 14 choice cuts from Pearce Hansen, Nick Manzolillo, J.D. Graves, Keith Rawson, Max Sheridan, Diana Deverell, Peter DiChellis, Henry Brock, A.B. Patterson, Lisa Douglass, Aaron Majewski, Mike Derochick, Tais Teng, and Jeffrey Burton. Twisted and barbed like your ex; sharp and deadly like the femme fatale you know you can’t resist—Switchblade Issue Four: it ain’t your grandma’s Ellery Queen.

Burton, Jeffrey

Manzolillo, Nick

Hansen, Pearce

Rawson, Keith

Teng, Tais

Deverell, Diana

Majewski, Aaron

Derochick, Michael

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue featuring five all-new stories, plus vintage hard-boiled classics from the pulp era of the 1930s-40s. And it includes a never-before published cover by James Lunnon, painted for Black Mask in 1940.

Black Mask: Spring 2018

Bedford-Jones, H.

Nebel, Frederick

Dunn, J. Allan

Ernst, Paul

Cushman, Dan

White, Robb T.

Sheppard, Jonathan

Billingsley, Richard

Townsley, Brian

Black Mask

EconoClash Review #6 is better than UV or bleach for curing those COVID blues, and just as despicable. Inside these pages monsters roam free. Some hide their oozing flesh and bloody claws inside skins draped with respectable clothes, firm haircuts, and bedroom teeth. Behold businessmen with carnival barker style and a gambler's desperation. Ride along in a bus filled with debauchery and regret. Search online paramours catfishing through dangerous mud. Sight in on the true costs of assassinations. Unleash unspeakable unknown under-dwellers. Discover buried treasure in the darkest depths of creation. Listen for the fluting call of spectral friends. Panic at the mention of No-Good Bartlett's. Float down a river of No Return. Oh, and there's also a time-traveling Jesus. These nine quality cheap thrills of the dankest macabre and criminally petty, are guaranteed to delight your senses, tickle your outrage, and engorge your brain with blood. Read original stories by Daniel Marcus, Preston Lang, Serena Jayne, John Kojak, Daniel Jacob Uitvlugt, Robb T. White, Paul McCabe, J.D. Graves, and Chris Fortunato only in EconoClash Review #6 from Down & Out Books.

EconoClash Review #6: Quality Cheap Thrills

Humor & Entertainment

Uitvlugt, Donald Jacob

Marcus, Daniel

JAYNE, SERENA

Fortunato, Chris

Kojak, John

McCabe, Paul

Humor

Down & Out Books

Lucky Number Seven of EconoClash Review presents nine quality cheap thrills of neo-pulp lunacy that will push the envelope of genre limitations. Themes of hard luck and ill fate weave throughout this fresh anthology featuring: time slipping lovers, day-drunk step-dads, fantastically stoned fairies, brawny tavern heroes, haunted beauty queens, underestimated female lawmen, blown-cover spies, smack fiend postmen, and even honest to God cowboys. All of them fighting to survive worlds they unwittingly created themselves. Whether you find top notch schadenfreude to be your guilty pleasure or anonymous up-vote, the seventh issue of ECR is your lucky ticket to a world of quality cheap thrills. Read original stories by Simon Broder, J. Travis Grundon, Angelique Fawns, Matthew X. Gomez, Willow Croft, Russell W. Johnson, Scott Forbes Crawford, Kevin M. Folliard, and Mack Moyer only in EconoClash Review #7 from Down & Out Books.

EconoClash Review #7: Quality Cheap Thrills

Johnson, Russell W.

Broder, Simon

Grundon, J. Travis

Fawns, Angelique

Gomez, Matthew X.

Croft, Willow

Crawford, Scott Forbes

Folliard, Kevin M.

Moyer, Mack

Predators thrive on entropy. They're often the ones closest to us. They know where we're most vulnerable-where it hurts the most. They come in all types. They cruise the street anonymously, looking for victims; or they return to us like a lethal rash from an unresolved past. They might be ideological extremists. Or profit-driven sharply dressed parasites. They might even be megalomaniacs. But they all thrive on weakness-especially dysfunctional relationships. And they know when to strike, when you think the world's got your back-and then you realize it does: when it whispers softly that what you're about to receive is nothing more than a routine prostate exam.

Switchblade: Issue Eleven (Switchblade Volume One)

Garnet, George

Burnett, Misha

Rachels, David

Cizak, Alec

Wilsky, Jim

Beatty, Brian

Timm, John

The future's so bleak, we got to throw it some shade Pulp Modern teams up with the premiere crime fiction journal, Switchblade, to bring you Tech Noir, a special edition loaded with nine science fiction stories chosen by guest editor Scotch Rutherford. Featuring contributions by the hottest independent writers today, including Tom Barlow, C.W. Blackwell, Deborah L. Davitt, Angelique Fawns, Nils Gilbertson, J.D. Graves, Zakariah Johnson, Jo Perry, and Don Stoll. Alec Cizak provides chief editing duties. Richard Krauss continues his outstanding work as art director. And Ran Scott delivers cover-to-cover illustrations to help make this a must-have for fans of science fiction everywhere.

Pulp Modern: Tech Noir

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Perry, Jo

Blackwell, C.W.

Davitt, Deborah L.

Gilbertson, Nils

Science Fiction

Uncle B. Publications

Mystery Weekly Magazine: January 2019 (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues)

Dixon, Buzz

Harris, Bruce

Norris, Gregory L.

Bosworth, John

Hayward, A.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

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