'My publishers contacted me roughly five minutes before publication and requested one more short story, so I sat down and pondered writing a short murder mystery called "Death of a Publisher – by Slow Strangulation".' Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is Australia's bestselling ex-convict. The standover man and self-confessed killer is Australia's only celebrity gangster and has spent most of his adult life in jail. Shot, stabbed, betrayed and minus a pair of ears; Chopper's tale of the Australian criminal underworld continues in Pulp Faction. The fifth volume of Chopper's memoirs contains a series of short stories. These shorts are raw, tough and funny, with a breathtaking ring of authenticity that could only have been written by a man who has lived these experiences. Featuring the classic stories 'Revenge of the Rabbit Kisser', 'The Shoe Shop Men' and 'Message in a Bottle', Pulp Faction will have you wondering what's true and what's not.

Call Me by P-P Hartnett When Liam decides to begin answering the personal ads of London's gay papers, he is at first bemused and fascinated. After all, it is simply a way to entertain himself and pass the time. What Liam doesn't bargain for, however, is his growing reliance on the ads and the men who answer them. What at first was a form of distraction is quickly becoming an obsession, and Liam is discovering just who finds him so alluring.

The short stories and novellas are among my earliest science fiction works. Writing in Alaska in 1987 I made a couple of trips to Europe while enrolled in an English writing course at the University of Alaska at Juneau. Most of these stories were written at or at least mention Wrangell- a small town 150 miles to the south of the state capitol at Juneau. 140,000 words.

The H. Bedford-Jones Pulp Fiction Megapack collects 20 classic stories and novels from the "King of the Pulps"! Bedford-Jones, among the most prolific and popular of pulp magazine writers, penned thousands of short stories and more than 100 novels in the early to mid 20th century. His work is full of adventure, mystery, suspense, romance, and action -- always a gripping story, well told. THE HOUSE OF SKULLS WRITTEN IN RED YELLOW INTRIGUE DOWN THE COAST OF BARBARY SKULLS THE OPIUM SHIP PIRATES' GOLD THE SECOND LIFE OF MONSIEUR THE DEVIL NUALA O'MALLEY MUSTERED OUT IRREGULAR BRETHREN CLANCY, DETECTIVE THE THRUST OF A FINGER THREE SMART SILKS THE BLUE BEETLE RENDEZVOUS TEST PILOT NUMBER ONE THE CURIOUS LUCK OF THE EARL OF PUGWASH D'ARTAGNAN And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!

Short stories by Darren Francis. Self-harm, love, crop circle making, alcoholism, abuse, alien abduction, murder, and the war on terror. Darren Francis was born in London but now lives in leafy Bucks, writing and nurturing ontological escape plans. He has done a great many things, most of which you don't want to know about. His work has been published in various anthologies and online journals, including Fissure, Skin, emthree, Technopagan, britpulp! (print) and Retort, Why Vandalism?, Pulp, Catalyzer, ken*again, Sick Among The Pure, Starving Arts and Poetic Inhalation (online). Spell is his first published book. For more information on Darren Francis and his work, go to darrenfrancis.co.uk

A collection of interviews with some of the most popular and influential writers to emerge in the 1990's, revealing the deep influence that music has had on many of these writers.