A Night of Blood and Fire ...

An abandoned Army fort is the perfect hideout for the worst criminals around. Or so they thought. In the fort basement lurks evil--The Sisters--bringing Plague to the fugitives, poisoning minds and souls, and thirsting for blood. When Hawthorne is led to the fort in pursuit of a thieving murderer, he must also fight the Sisters. And, when ugly ties to his own shadowy past are revealed, the mysterious gunslinger is pushed to his very limits ... and into the darkness.

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Jack Laramie, grandson of the legendary US Marshal Cash Laramie, is a tough-as-nails WWII vet roaming the modern West. He lives out of a horse trailer hitched to the back of a DeSoto, searching out PI gigs to keep him afloat.

With his car limping along, Jack barely makes it to the sleepy town of Clyde, Texas, where he stops at a garage. While waiting for repairs, he accepts a job from the sheriff, pulling surveillance on a local oilman allegedly running liquor to Indian reservations in Oklahoma. When Jack runs afoul of several locals and becomes dangerously close to the oilman’s hot-to-trot wife, he wonders if the money is worth his life.

Garnett Elliott writes in the best hardboiled tradition of the masters and turns out a tour-de-force novelette, clocking in at a trim, fighting 9k words. Take a chance on this new series ... and experience a Jack Laramie beat.

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The Rap Sheet has posted the list of finalists for the 2013 Derringer Awards, and Hilary Davidson has been nominated for Best Short Story with "A Special Kind of Hell" from BEAT to a PULP: Round Two. Congratulations, Hilary.

Round Two is available in print at CreateSpace and Amazon.
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So the helpless lady tied up in the basement (never mind that the legs look different, dear reader) wasn’t so helpless after all. She managed to loosen her ropes and escape to the sicko’s first floor. He was gone. At work. She found the closet where he had bought her a series of dresses that she had to repeatedly try on and entertain him. This time she snagged the red one. Sign of power and fire. She went to the kitchen and grabbed the sharpest knife she could find. He had a gun in his bedroom but a slow, painful death is what the bastard deserved. Later, he came through the door and she was waiting. She had become the living mad.

Look for Hardboiled 2 on Amazon. Available now for Kindle. Soon in print.

The new Simon Rip novella by Chad Eagleton is available now for Kindle at Amazon.

Time certainly flies when you're having fun, and so our editors have found out as they make their way through the final rounds on the upcoming Simon Rip time-tripping adventure. A Rip Through Time kick-started the series with stories from Chris F. Holm, Charles Gramlich, Garnett Elliott and Chad Eagleton. Mr. Elliott came back for more with the most recent short "Loose Ends" appearing right here on the BTAP webzine, and Chad Eagleton will blast us off into "The Clear, Black Fields of Night" in this continuing saga.

BEAT to a PULP webzine will return January 27, 2013 with all new stories from Erik Arneson, Trey Barker, Jerry Bloomfield, Hilary Davidson, Matthew C. Funk, Edward A. Grainger, Charles Gramlich, Liam Jose, Benoit Lelievre, Andrew Nette, Keith Rawson, Ron Scheer, Sandra Seamans, Anthony Neil Smith, Steve Weddle, and many more.

When Elliot Stilling killed himself, he thought his troubles were over. Then the ER doctors revived him. It's infatuation at first sight when he meets his nurse, Felicia Vogan, a strange young woman with a weakness for sad sacks and losers. After she helps Elliot escape from the hospital, she takes him back to her place. He's happy to go with her, even when she leads him straight to a gang planning a million dollar heist. Does Felicia just want Elliot to protect her from the outfit's psychotic leader, Stan the Man? Or is Elliot being set up to take the hard fall? One thing's for sure: if he's going to survive this long night of deceit and murder, Elliot will have to finally face himself and his own dark past.

What others are saying about The Posthumous Man:

"In The Posthumous Man, the existential and theological themes buried inside the best noir are pulled to the surface, hungry for air and clutching a last chance at redemption. Jake Hinkson crafts this bullet-fast novella with qualities emblematic of my favorite crime fiction: empathy, gravity and brevity. Much appreciated and highly recommended."

"The Posthumous Man is every bit as crazily entertaining as Hinkson's hard-rocking debut, Hell on Church Street, and it reads like a streamliner rocketing across the Bonneville Salt Flats."

The Posthumous Man is available in print at CreateSpace and Amazon. Kindle edition available from Amazon.

BEAT to a PULP: Hardboiled won the 2012 Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology. Thanks to all the incredibly talented writers involved with HARDBOILED and Scott D. Parker for his masterful hand in editing.