Ryan Sayles and Brian Panowich Introduce readers to the Zombie Apocalypse done their way. From tear-jerking to gut-wrenching to hardcore and brutal, all the things Sayles and Panowich have brought to the Indy Noir table are funneled into the world of the undead. Volume One includes:1. My Wife Dawn...And The Dead (Panowich) A recount of the first few hours of the zombie outbreak during an small intimate Christmas party in the suburbs. What happens when a pop culture zombie nerd finds himself the smartest guy in the room, charged with protecting his family and friends on the eve of a real bonafide apocalypse? Probably not what you expect. My wife Dawn is a love story for the end of days.2. 28 Days of Mutilated Zombie Whores Later (Sayles)Two years after the the Zombie apocalypse, Nelson runs a new breed of harem on his farm. When his last surviving John arrives with a 'live girl' to trade for Nelson's service, they all experience a micro-apocalypse of their own.The print version of this book includes 2 prequel stories, and a brand new Introduction to Zelmer Press written by Ryan Sayles

C'mon And Do The Apocalypse: Volume 1

Literature & Fiction

Panowich, Brian

Sayles, Ryan

Genre Fiction

Zelmer Pulp

Flash fiction doesn't leave a lot of room for build-up, so it's best to start by going for the throat and seeing where it leads. In these stories Ryan Sayles does just that. He turns on a dim light and leads the reader down an already claustrophobic path. Active shooter event? Check. Ugly, failed relationships? Check. Dope fiends making smart decisions? Check. People seeking out roadkill because that's the deepest relationship they can handle? Check. Putting on a soiled Easter Bunny costume to say goodbye the hard way to your former office colleagues who all foolishly thought they had the last laugh? Check and double check.Each story is like an unmarked pill; just swallow it and see what happens. C'mon. It'll be fun.

That Escalated Quickly!

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Zelmer Pulp is back with two new members rounding out the original fold. This, their first collection of noir and crime, rolls through gritty side streets and dark alleys as it highlights the underbelly of what men can do. Photographer Mark Krajnak complimented each story with a black and white picture from his professional collection of work.

Maybe I Should Just Shoot You In The Face

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Regan, Chuck

Leek, Chris

Kirkman, Isaac

Spark, Gareth

Lelievre, Benoit

Mystery

It's Ugly Because It's Personal

Down & Out Books

The girl has gone missing. Again. But this time people are trying to kill her. Trying to burn down everything she has touched or left behind. The girl’s surrogate father feels responsible and to assuage his guilt, he hires Richard Dean Buckner, former Saint Ansgar homicide detective turned private eye to ferret her out. Buckner was doing fine as a bare-knuckles detective for the PD until he was rendered “unserviceable” by a hit attempt. Early retirement doesn’t sit well with that type of man, half predator and half savior. He takes the case, and from two ex-boyfriends who ruined their lives for the girl, her rapist dad, drug dealers she burned for thousands, an uncomfortable meeting at the local Incest Survivors group to whoever is setting fire to her life, Buckner is going to need all his guts, instinct and .44 Magnum to finish the job. Because in Saint Ansgar, what doesn’t kill you only makes you wish it did. Praise for The Subtle Art of Brutality “Richard Dean Buckner is just the hero for our modern world: a righteous killer who can step outside convention and right the wrongs; and Sayles is just the writer to drive his story. This is how I like my fiction: unrelenting prose and kick-ass justice.” —Joe Clifford, author of Lamentation “The brutality is in the prose. Course and violent, Sayles writes like he is seeking vengeance against the world. It’s 21st century noir. Mickey Spillane on meth.” —Tom Pitts, author of Knuckleball “As subtle as brass knuckles to the face. Buckner is a classic and Sayles is one to watch.” —Eric Beetner, author of Rumrunners and The Year I Died Seven Times “…Richard Dean Buckner left me wanting more. He is a breath of fresh air in an antiques shop. A biker in a museum. A chaotic, reckless anomaly. You know I’m enjoying something when I deliberately slow down my reading pace to enjoy the novel longer. The Subtle Art of Brutality is a ridiculously strong first novel, starting the new darling of the P.I novels legacy.” —Benoit Lelievre, blogger and reviewer at Dead End Follies “Gut twisting detective fiction done the way it is supposed to be done. RDB makes Dirty Harry seem a little soft.” —Todd Morr, author of Jesus Saves, Satan Invests “The Subtle Art of Brutality is a nut busting slice of noir. All of the required hard-boiled elements are present and accounted for…” —Chris Leek, author of Gospel of the Bulley “The Subtle Art of Brutality is a testosterone-and-meth cocktail, a relentless blast of tough guy intensity. 21st-century hardboiled.” —Warren Moore, author of Broken Glass Waltzes

The Subtle Art of Brutality (A Richard Dean Buckner Novel)

The real estate mogul is lying about something, but his wife really was raped twenty-years ago in an unsolved assault. Now she’s long dead by her own hand, the case has gone cold, and the mogul starts dropping cash into former Saint Ansgar homicide detective turned private eye Richard Dean Buckner’s wallet to find some answers. Just hours later Buckner’s old homicide partner calls up. His grandmother was just killed in a drive-by that hit the wrong address. People that stupid need to be taught harsh lessons, and vengeance just so happens to be one of Buckner’s finer skills. Everything circles the drain as Buckner finds himself at war with the worst gang the city has to offer as well as the slithering rapist who has resurfaced just to tie the loose ends from the twenty year-old crime. Buckner doesn’t back down, and if that means getting himself carjacked so he can interrogate the gang bangers, pose as the mogul’s secret lover and chase the rapist into a women’s shower room so he can beat him mercilessly, so be it. Just another day.

Warpath (A Richard Dean Buckner Novel)

Need an escape for a few minutes? Don’t care if that escape smells like spent gunpowder or could fit into a chalk outline? Then look no further. In this new collection of short fiction, Ryan Sayles continues his streak of no holds-barred grit. An old hit man sharing a last drink with the ghost of one of his first victims. A grieving mother who knows exactly to whom she wants to give all her love. A college student more dangerous than the active shooter event in which he’s trapped. A couple’s last resort against terminal cancer that might be worse than the disease. Be glad these folks are the ones making—and paying for—the mistakes and you’re only getting to read about them. If you’ve got a few minutes to kill, come on over. Killing is a guaranteed thing around here.

Let Me Put My Stories in You

Short Stories & Anthologies

Family man Carl, with his wife and daughter, are on their way check on his young son who had been hospitalized for an ear infection complicated by the boy’s Type 1 Diabetes. Stopped at a light they are confronted by a gunman who pulls Carl from the vehicle, stealing the vehicle and his family with it. Desperate, Carl, will do anything to save his family, even commit a carjacking himself. Carl finds himself chasing after his family, being chased by the police, and confront the reason for this random act of violence. When all seems lost, Carl finds a reason to believe, and finds himself amidst a conflict of good and evil. Praise for GOLDFINCHES: “A man watches helplessly as his car is hijacked and driven off with his wife and daughter imprisoned inside. And, then; the nightmare accelerates into warp-speed unspeakable horror. Ryan Sayles has delivered yet another masterpiece in his newest novel, Goldfinches. This guy just keeps getting better and better! Take my advice and read this book with all the lights on…” —Les Edgerton, author of The Rapist, The Bitch, and The Genuine Imitation Plastic Kidnapping “No one does fractured domestic noir like Ryan Sayles. And Goldfinches finds him mining that dysfunction harder and fiercer than ever. Shattering domestic bliss with pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal action. Think Liam Neeson and his special set of skills—only jacked up on meth with stronger moonshine and more vicious complications.” —Joe Clifford, author Lamentation and Junkie Love “Take the emotional grittiness of Breakdown, turn the violence dial to eleven, throw in a healthy dose of desperation multiplied by having kids involved, and you’re on your way to something akin to Ryan Sayles’ Goldfinches. This is a brutal, tense, fast-paced ride full of the relent- less brutality and knack for action that have made Sayles a household name for fans of great crime fiction, and this vicious ride may just be his best one yet.” —Gabino Inglesias, author of Zero Saints and Hungry Darkness “Ryan Sayles writes like he’s got an angel on one shoulder and a fallen angel on the other. Here’s hoping Ryan keeps working it out on the page…and doesn’t make much progress.” —Jedidiah Ayres, author of Fierce Bitches and Peckerwood

Goldfinches

Thrillers & Suspense

Shotgun Honey

Two nuns murdered. Two elderly, wonderful women brutally stabbed to death outside their ghetto mission as they went into the streets to gather the addicts and human waste for a night’s rest. Motive? None. If scum are willing to come out of the shadows just to kill, they get paid in little more than blood. In this neighborhood, blood is gold. Private detective Richard Dean Buckner aids his best friend and former homicide partner Graham Clevenger in working the case. The local priest sees Buckner’s handiwork—and rage—firsthand and hires him with the intention of hopefully saving the killer from the worst of the bare knuckle detective’s rampage. Buckner develops a lead and hunts the suspect down, but as Clevenger develops a second, less likely and more earth-shattering suspect of his own, friend is pitted against friend as they race to prove who really did it. All the while Buckner is trying to ignore a similar case from his past where he allowed his pride to railroad the suspect into an early grave. Fearing Clevenger is about to do the same thing, Buckner realizes just how bleak his mistake was. To hunt a man who slaughtered two nuns, Buckner needs to use a junkyard dog as a landing cushion, make a victim remember the worst night of her life and undo years of therapy, smoke PCP and use a barnyard blow-up doll to strangle a man. So be it. Just another day. Praise for ALBATROSS: “The only thing more satisfying than watching a series character evolve is witnessing your favorite author make that same transformation. Blessedly, Albatross exhibits both those traits. Richard Dean Buckner, Ryan Sayles’s violent, beleaguered, and damn-near-nihilistic private detective, struggles to accept the ideas of grace and the inherent value of humanity in the wake of callous atrocity. And Sayles dares the reader by writing a novel that’s not just interested in the characters’ lives—their brutal existences—but their immortal souls as well. Somebody is finally doing something interesting with crime fiction.” —Grant Jerkins, author of Abnormal Man “I have come to realize Richard Dean Buckner as a force of nature. A tool Ryan Sayles uses as deftly as only someone as skilled as he can. All told, Albatross is not only a ride I recommend, but one I admire. A fine addition to RDB series.” —Beau Johnson, author of A Better Kind of Hate

Albatross (Richard Dean Buckner)

From a bank robbery gone horribly wrong to a shipwrecked man with a serious anger problem to a lonely teenage Peeping Tom, Ryan Sayles's second collection of stories steam rolls along. Need a transvestite beating up her drug dealer? Got it. What about a guy trying to stuff a dead hooker into his trunk? Got it also. Need a Richard Dean Buckner story? Got two of 'em. Come on in and join the mayhem.

I'm Not Happy Till You're Not Happy

All Due Respect

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