Written by Horace James, read by Steve Anderson.

A relationship between a low-life funeral director and a malevolent spirit turns messy … very, very messy.

Explicit language, violence and sexuality.

 

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Written and spoken by Andrew Culver, music by Josh Charney.

The drifter has become forever trapped in the fifth and final chapter of this spoken word/music collaboration.

Previous chapters: 1 |  2 |  3 |  4

 

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Written and spoken by Andrew Culver, music by Josh Charney.

The drifter lands a job — but quickly regrets his decision — in the fourth chapter of this spoken word/music collaboration.

The fifth and final chapter will be released next Wednesday.

 

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Written and spoken by Andrew Culver, music by Josh Charney.

A lonely prostitute warns the drifter about a “monster” in the third chapter of this spoken word/music collaboration.

New chapters will be released each Wednesday.

 

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Written and spoken by Andrew Culver, music by Josh Charney.

A world-weary barkeep has a warning for the drifter in the second chapter of this spoken word/music collaboration. Chapter 2 of 5.

New chapters will be released each Wednesday.

 

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Written and spoken by Andrew Culver, music by Josh Charney.

In this spoken word/music collaboration, a train-jumping drifter gets dumped in an ominous desert town. Chapter 1 of 5.

New chapters will be released each Wednesday.

 

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If you like your hardboiled fiction with an in-your-face, profanity-studded style, you should check out the ThugLit site run by editor (and writer) Todd “Big Daddy Thug” Robinson.

Issue # 25, which leads the site now, kicks off with “Faith-Based Initiative,” a story about a wronged priest and some Salvadorans looking for payback in scenic Asbury Park, N.J. (the blighted former tourist attraction, now famous for Bruce Springsteen, the Stone Pony music club and its crumbling ocean-front boardwalk.)

And the intensity ramps up from there with stories featuring assorted low-lifes, cons and, well, thugs, all told with an over-the-top style and unhealthy helpings of sex and violence.

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In honor of Mother’s Day, we here at Well Told Tales came up with our top 10 moms from horror, sci-fi and crime/hardboiled films.

Chime in on the comments section if you think we missed someone.

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National Public Radio had a great interview this week with Charles Ardai, award-winning author and founder of pulp-fiction publisher Hard Case Crime.

Hard Case Crime publishes mass-market paperback crime novels — both all-new stories and reprints of ’40s and ’50s books.

Authors include Golden-Age pulp stars like Erle Stanley Gardner, Donald Hamilton, and Cornell Woolrich.

Stephen King has a Hard Case novel (The Colorado Kid.)

And a new generation of pulpsters are represented — including Ardai, himself, who writes under the pen name Richard Aleas.

Be sure to check out the cover art of the books on the Hard Case Crime site.

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Written by Ken Goldman, read by Rick Stringer.

Two mobsters face off — and commune with nature — in an alligator-infested Florida swamp.

Explicit: violence, language

 

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