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Caledonia Press

Caledonia Press is an independent publisher operating out of Los Angeles, California.  Caledonia, defined as “the old world Roman Empire name for Scotland” perfectly describes the mission of t...

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Uncle B. Publications

Uncle B. Publications, LLC. is an independent publisher operating out of Indianapolis, Indiana, and began publishing as an imprint in 2020, expanding from exclusively publishing Pulp Modern, i...

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Cirsova Publishing

Cirsova Publishing has been publishing thrilling adventure science fiction and fantasy since 2016.  Growing out of the OSR blogging community and research into Appendix N Fiction, Cirsova Publ...

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Larque Press

Larque Press is an independent publisher located in the United States. Known for publishing a facet of different genres, Larque Press is your ultimate source for independent books, antholog...

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Terror House Press

Terror House Press is an independent publishing house focused on nurturing and promoting the best up-and-coming writers of our generation. Founded on May 14, 2018 in Budapest, Hungary by auth...

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American Pulps

American Pulps, LLC. is an independent publisher and production company operating out of California and New Jersey. They focus on producing novels, short stories, visual art, and animated film...

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Run Amok

  Run Amok Books has been around since 2017. Our imprint, Run Amok Crime, launched in 2022. We exists to fill a hole in this country’s cultural fabric left by corporately run publisher...

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Code 4 Press

Code 4 Press is currently the exclusive imprint of Frank Scalise, publishing more than 70 novels, novels, short story collections, and box sets written by Frank under his various pen names (Sc...

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Our Magazines & Journals

Coffin Bell Journal

Coffin Bell is an online journal of dark literature edited by Tamara Burross Grisanti and a staff of volunteer editors. Coffin Bell is looking for poetry, flash fiction, short stories, creativ...

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Pulp Modern

Pulp Modern is an independently owned print journal specializing in fiction. Specifically, we indulge in any and all crime, noir, fantasy, science fiction, horror, adventure, wa...

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The Digest Enthusiast

The Digest Enthusiast celebrates genre fiction magazines with interviews, articles, and reviews—plus fiction. Coverage includes newsstand favorites like Fate, F&SF, and Nostalgia Digest; i...

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Switchblade Magazine

Switchblade Magazine is an outlaw fiction print anthology featuring authors writing in the hardboiled/noir genre, and nothing else. They are not a literary magazine but a criminal culture dige...

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All Due Respect

Founded in 2011 by Alec Cizak, All Due Respect would go on to massive success under the leadership of Chris Rhatigan. After a brief respite, Alec Cizak has returned along with co-editors E.F. ...

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Our Authors

A.B. Patterson

A. B. Patterson is an award-winning Australian writer who knows first-hand about corruption, power, crime and sex.  He was a Detective Sergeant in the WA Police, working in paedophilia and...

Alec Cizak

Alec Cizak is a writer and filmmaker from Indiana. His most recent novels and short story collections are available from ABC Group Documentation. He is the creator of All Due Respect and Pulp ...

Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller was born in Ohio. He lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend Genevieve and their two cats, John Wayne and Calamity Jane. He is an author, screenwriter and essayist. His deb...

Ara Hone

Ara Hone writes speculative fiction and contemporary literature drawing on her chameleon DNA as a warfighter, salesperson, and nonprofit novice. Her work appears in Pulp Modern Flash, Silver B...

Copper Smith

David Copper is a Minneapolis-based writer/performer currently littering the world with immersive and captivating live storytelling, often under the pen name Copper Smith. His play 'Dancin...

E.B. Hunter

E.B. Hunter lives in a remote town in Northern Alberta, Canada with his wife and daughter. He spends his days working, and his nights crafting stories to entertain himself through the long, ha...

EF Sweetman

EF Sweetman is from Beverly, Massachusetts. She has worked as a fishmonger, a picture framer, bike shop girl, and Registered Nurse, but she would always rather be writing noir, hard boiled cri...

Frank Zafiro

Frank Scalise was a police officer from 1993 to 2013, retiring as a captain. After retirement, he taught leadership at police agencies across the US and Canada for four years, before retiring ...

James Lilley

James Lilley is a championship fighter and a poet from the UK. Stay out of his way!

James Ward Kirk

James Ward Kirk Fiction is an independent publishing company specializing in horror, suspense and speculative fiction. We deliver quality fiction, poetry and art at an affordable price. A wide...

James Whelpley

James Whelpley James Whelpley was born in Fairfax, VA, raised in central Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas-San Antonio with a bachelor's in English, studying Greek and Roman c...

January Bain

January Bain is an award-winning author who firmly believes that stories unite us, that good stories help us to discover the commonality of the human experience by supporting values, empathy a...

Jim Wilsky

Jim Wilsky is a crime fiction writer. His first solo novel is titled Cargo. Over fifty of his short stories have been published in some of the most respected online magazines such as Pulp Mode...

Les Edgerton

After gaining parole, Edgerton obtained a B.A. from Indiana University and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. He has taught in a variety of places, including the UCLA Writer’s Program, wa...

Lisa Voorhees

A Jersey girl to the core, when Lisa’s not writing short stories or novellas, she’s either listening to hard rock or out at target practice. She writes dark fantasy with a hopeful edge, but da...

Manny Torres

Manny Torres is an Atlanta, Georgia, transplant from Brooklyn, New York. Perras Malas, meaning Bad Bitches in Spanish, is the loose prequel to this book and made it to the LGBTQ+ crime bes...

Matt Payne

Matt Payne writes comedic novels, science fiction, and weird horror. His books include Millenarianistic Chronodyke, and The Adventure Poem of Julius Cinnamon. He lives in Canada. http://pa...

Matthew Louis

Matthew Louis Matthew Louis is the founding editor of Out of the Gutter Magazine and Gutter Books. He is the author of the novels The Wrong Man and Noir Bastard (2023). He has had short stori...

Mav Skye

Mav Skye lives in a hundred year old house on a misty harbor. She loves black and white movies, Stephen King, and Godzilla. She was Vice-Dictatrix of the mighty Pulp Metal Magazine, and auth...

Paul Greenberg

Paul Greenberg has been writing since he was a child. His first published work was a review of The Police at The Rat, a legendary Punk club in Boston. An avid reader of crime fiction Paul star...

Rebecca Jones-Howe

Rebecca Jones-Howe is the Filipino-Canadian author of Ending in Ashes and Vile Men. Her neo-noir fiction explores human sexuality, feminism, and pop culture by blending elements of erotica, ho...

Robert Ragan

Robert Ragan, crime writer and poet, has just published his first book of poetry, Nothing Is Sacred, with Uncle B. Publications, LLC. He is currently working on his fourth short story collecti...

Scotch Rutherford

The work of Scotch Rutherford explores dark corners between the bright lights. An independent screenwriter, and author; his work has appeared in Pulp Modern, Out of the Gutter, Pulp Metal Maga...

Steve Stark

Steve Stark is the author of the novel “A Hot Dose of Hell” and the anthology “Violent Ends”. An avid fan of crime and horror fiction, he tends to write a mixture of both. Steve draws inspirat...

Susan Sage

Susan Sage is a fiction writer and poet. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956, she is the youngest of three sisters. Susan received an English degree from Wayne State University. During her colle...

Vern Smith

VERN SMITH Vern Smith is the editor of Jacked, a new crime fiction anthology (Run Amok Crime). He is author of the novels Under the Table (a payroll heist that takes place on a Hollywood Nort...

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