It's 1979 in New York City and Charley McCormick loves the Deuce-42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues-more than anything in the world. He loves the peculiar low-budget movies. He loves the bizarre all-night circus of it all. But when a pretty girl sits beside him at a horror double feature at the Harris and ends up dead before the lights come back on, his scene is turned upside down...and Charley is thrown into whirlwind of murder and betrayal where no one is what they seem. As he winds through a network of sex workers, gangsters, and B movie producers, Charley gets himself in so deeply there is no choice but to unravel what started on the Forty-Two and might very well end in the city morgue.
“A smart, deep, black magic carnie noir existential bloodbath” from the acclaimed author of Boon (Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author). In the shadow of World War II, the barren, dusty streets of Litchfield, Arkansas, are even quieter than usual, leaving hotel detective George “Jojo” Walker with too much time to struggle with his own personal demons. But everything changes when a traveling picture show comes to town. The film’s purveyors check into the hotel where Jojo works and set up a special midnight screening at the local theater. The curtain rises on a surreal carnival of dark magic and waking nightmares, starring Jojo and the residents of Litchfield, as madness, murder, and mayhem threaten to engulf them all . . . “A stunner of a story . . . Flat-out brilliant . . . Unfolds like petals of an exotic and scandalous black flower—each one gently opening to give the reader a distressing revelation . . . Powerful ideas, wrapped in a dark mantle of horror.” —My Haunted Library “If you like pulpy noir with a dose of existentialism mixed with some utterly bizarre horror, this book is for you.” —Fangoria “Genre mash-ups like this one are difficult to execute, but Kurtz navigates it deftly, with writing so visceral and evocative it feels less like reading a book and more like watching a film in real time.” —Literary Hub “While it echoes with the shadowy threatening of Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and the religious dread of Hjortsberg’s Falling Angel, the clearest voice here is Kurtz’s own cry into the existential abyss.” —Bracken MacLeod, author of Mountain Home
For years, Ed Kurtz jotted down his memories of growing up in New Jersey during the 1920s and 1930s. Combining them with some essays on modern problems such as road rage, information on the origins of popular sports, and several (often spicy) jokes and stories, Ed enlisted his sister Mitzie, now 93, as a typist, and created the manuscript he titled "How to Win Friends and Influenza." This book traces a New Jersey childhood through the eras of America's Prohibition and Great Depression, and an adulthood that included overseas service during World War II, leading troops of Boy Scouts through the snake-infested woodsd, and building a house the Pope slept in. In a voice all his own, twinkling with humor and wordplay, Ed Kurtz relates a life well lived.
Bombshell Plus is a mix of political insights and whimsy, with Ed Kurtz's usual unique, New Jersey-born look on the world. His direct interaction with friends and relatives on the 9/11 tragedy has given him a personal connection to the disaster. You will find everything from commentary on the election process, to ostriches (as it relates to politicians sticking their heads in the sand), to personal reflections on life in the 21st century.
In Medieval Scotland, an English soldier endures a devastating battle only to discover what comes in the night for the blood of war. An itinerant rider chases a crooked dream to a grim finale in the bleak, lonely desert of Old West Texas. The last surviving member of a New England family investigates his flooded ancestral home and the shocking final chapter of his family tree. An arranged marriage deep in the forest for a man on the run turns into a nightmare he could never have imagined in his darkest moments. From Ed Kurtz, the acclaimed author of At the Mercy of Beasts and Bleed, comes a new collection of dark fiction that will take you on a journey of horrific visions summoned into the bloody battlefields of medieval Europe and the desolate wastelands of the post-Civil War Southwest, from undead horrors in Tsarist Russia to a painful and horrifying parenthood that could only happen to two desperate criminals at the end of their rope. Tales of mythic, bloodthirsty creatures collide with contemporary demons and nature gone amok where the weird and the monstrous are conjured by ill intentions and best laid plans. This is BLOOD THEY BROUGHT.
It’s been a decade since Boonsri Angchuan and Edward Splettstoesser parted ways in California at the bloody end of her original vengeance trail. Now, she finds herself in the middle of a South American war with a new partner to tell the tale, a young Mexican woman named Lily Contreras with a dark past and more than a little blood on her own hands. And Boon’s vengeance hasn’t been doused yet—she is on a mission to find her mother, dead or alive, beginning with the one man she believes can tell her where she is. From the Chilean pampas to the high Pacific seas and the unforgiving Sonoran Desert, Boon and Lily forge a new trail against military madmen, murderous mutineers, cowboy killers, and la Guardia Rural, all of whom will taste the Vengeance of Boon. ***** "Kurtz's Boon is a potent example of what a modern western should be: diverse, thrilling, and an honest romp through America's troubled past." —Errick Nunnally, author of Lightning Wears a Red Cape and Blood for the Sun “Boon is a force!” —John Foster, author of The Isle “Ed Kurtz is one of the most dynamic and talented storytellers writing today. Period.” —Terrence McCauley, author of Where the Bullets Fly and Dark Territory
The epic saga of Boon Angchuan ends— —but not before she finally finishes her bloody quest. Edward Splettstoesser and Liliana Contreras have been on the trail together for the better part of a decade, searching for their long-lost friend Boon. After so many dusty miles and bitter disappointments, they finally track her down to a Wyoming prison and begin hatching plans to break her out. But all hell breaks loose, and in the middle of the pandemonium is “the Frenchman,” one Emile Champlain, who may very well hold the long-sought secret of what truly happened to Boon’s mother, Pimchan. The chase is on, from the Wyoming State Prison to a hellish confrontation at a cattle ranch, ultimately leading them to the frozen, far-flung Alaskan and Western Canadian wildernesses in the throes of the Gold Rush. There, Champlain holds court over his ill-gotten fiefdom and awaits the final showdown with the wildest woman in the west. The explosive conclusion to the Boon Trilogy, A Requiem for Boon is her biggest, bloodiest, and most consequential adventure yet, where the fates of her and her dearest friends all hang precariously in the balance.
From ice tongs to road rage, from the house where the Pope slept to the fall of the Twin Towers, Kurtz tells the tale of three centuries--his parents' arrival from Hungary in the late 1800s, family life in the 20s and 30s America, the Europe of World War II, and a modern world full of perils.
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