Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettTHE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. MenckenTHE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR...

The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK™ presents 25 modern and classic noir (and noir-inspired) and hardboiled tales by writers new and old. Included are:KIDNAPPED EVIDENCE, by Joseph J. MillardA RAT MUST CHEW, by Gary LovisiA RIDE FOR MR. TWO-BY-FOUR, by Bruno FischerBEDHEAD FRED’S, REDHEAD’S DEAD, by Jack HallidayGENERALISSIMO FLATFOOT, by Walt SheldonDOOM BOOM, by Glenn LowDEAD WRONG, by Lucille CaliGRIM REAPER'S HANDICAP, by Fergus Truslow

The Thrills of Horror! Romantic Tales of the Eerie and Occult! You'll find them in Spicy Mystery--stories of red-blooded men and lovely girls in dangerous situations, in an atmosphere of chills and thrills. Real life is never so tense and dramatic as when a girl is in peril--or as when a siren as deadly as she is beautiful sets her snare for a man....Are you bored of typical weird menace plots, many of which crept into Spicy Mystery? Then sample these tales which b...

Apes! Sex fiends! Gangsters! Mad scientists! Tentacles! Yes, this MEGAPACK has them all, no less than 25 lurid tales ripped from the pages of pulp fiction magazines. For The Pulp Fiction Megapack, we selected stories with great pulp titles. (Where else are you going to find stories like "Blood for the Vampire Dead," "Mistress of Snarling Death," or "When Super-Apes Plot"?) Of course, these stories were all written in a different time, with different standards of what was acceptable. They a...

Dan Turner was a hard-boiled gumshoe who worked the mean streets and back lots of the film studios of Hollywood, encountering murderers, blackmailers, greedy producers, seductive starlets, desperate has-beens and immoral grifters. Turner was always ready with his “roscoe” to save some “dame” or “frail” from becoming “dead as a smoked herring” or “as dead as vaudeville.”Homicide Hunch (1943) – It was a screwball situation. Here was Dan, sitting at h...

Death’s Halo by Robert Leslie Bellem, four stories from the casebook of Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective. Opium, sex slaves, blackmail, and plenty of murder, feature in the seamy side of the movie business.Star Chamber (1942) – The girl had paid Dan five centuries and asked him to meet her at eight. Now her ex-husband was trying to hire him, and setting the same hour for an appointment! The whole set-up smelled to Dan, and behind it all was the str...

Focus On Death – Five Stories from the Casebook of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Dan Turner deals with the usual assortment of lowlifes in Hollywood: actors, directors, producers, agents, thieves, blackmailers and murderers.Dead Heat (1944) – The cash customers paid plenty out to watch her emote on the screen. They looked upon her as a brunette angel, but there were a lot of substantial citizens in Hollywood who knew Linda for a rat.

Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective was a typical hardboiled private eye, who just happened to work the back lots and bedrooms of Hollywood. The vain film stars, the arrogant producers, the scheming agents and an endless array of glamorous female “starlets” were his clientele. Here are four stories from the casebook of Dan Turner by Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968).Sleeping Dogs (1934) – Follow Dan Turner, Hollywood’s two-fisted detective, through a murderous tangle of...

The Book of the Phantom Bullet – Five stories from the casebook of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective.Dead Heat (1944) – The cash customers paid plenty out to watch her emote on the screen. They looked upon her as a brunette angel, but there were a lot of substantial citizens in Hollywood who knew Linda for a rat.Daughter of Murder (1942) – There are some things a daughter ought to know about her own mother—including how she d...

Murder on the Soundstage – Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, gets caught in the middle of some jealous lovers and some double crossed deals and barely makes it out alive. Jealous actors, big time producers, even some members of the production crews get caught up by the green eyed monster.Pistol-Packing Premiere (1944) – Homicide is seldom advertised in advance. It just doesn’t make good publicity when a million-buck Western is having its premiere. A...

Phony Shakedown is a collection of four stories from the casebook of Dan Turner. Turner was a hard-boiled gumshoe who worked the mean streets and back lots of the film studios of Hollywood, encountering murderers, blackmailers, greedy producers, seductive starlets, desperate has-beens and immoral grifters. Turner was always ready with his “roscoe” to save some “dame” or “frail” from becoming “dead as a smoked herring” or “as dead as vaudeville.” Here are four stories from ...

The pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century are often "politically incorrect" by modern standards. However, the "Spicy" magazines -- Spicy-Adventure Stories, Spicy Mystery, Spicy Western, etc. -- were politically incorrect by their own contemporary standards as well. With the occasional passing glimpse of a creamy-smooth thigh (or other womanly part!), and often filled with sexism, racism, and over-the-top plots and language, they nevertheless manage to t...