DAY 5 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: POP THE CLUTCH: THRILLING TALES OF ROCKABILLY, MONSTERS, AND HOT ROD HORROR

I’ll be posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the table of contents for the latest anthology that I’ve created: Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror, to be published by Dark Moon Books on January 14, 2019!

DAY 5 of 18: Jason Starr

1. Seanan McGuire presents “The Golden Girls of Fall”
2. Weston Ochse presents “Sea Lords of the Columbia”
3. Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale present “Tremble”
4. Gary Phillips presents “The Demon of the Track”
5. Jason Starr presents “Outlawed Ink”

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EXCERPT:

  

      We rode along the dirt road for maybe a half hour until we reached a converted garage with a sign on it: OUTLAWED INK.
       “Doesn’t look open,” I said.
       “It’s always open,” he said. “Wait here.”
      He went to the dilapidated house next to the garage and banged on the screen door. An extremely frail, wrinkled man with a very small bald head—he appeared to be at least ninety years old—came to the door. Nick talked to him for a few minutes. A couple of times the man glanced in my direction, but by the way he was squinting I didn’t know if he could even see me.
      Nick returned to the car and said, “Okay, he can take us.”
       “He’s the tattoo artist?”
       “Yeah, one of the best.”
       “I don’t know,” I said.
       “Trust me,” Nick said. “I’ve been coming here for years. You won’t be disappointed.”
      My instincts told me this was a bad idea, but when had I ever listened to my instincts?
       “What the hell,” I said. . . .

—“Outlawed Ink” by Jason Starr

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ABOUT: JASON STARR

JASON STARR is the international best-selling author of many crime novels and thrillers. He also writes original graphic novels and superhero comics for Marvel and DC and has contributed to numerous short story anthologies. He has won the Barry Award and is a two-time winner of the Anthony Award. Several of his books are in development for TV, film, and theater. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. His latest novel is the psychological thriller, Fugitive Red. Starr was born and raised in Brooklyn and now lives in Manhattan.

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Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pop-Clutch-Thrilling-Rockabilly-Monsters/dp/1949491056

Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/pop_the_clutch.html

Releasing: January 14, 2019

“A fitting tribute to the 1950s with this 18-story compendium of hot rods, rock ’n’ roll, and creature features come to life.” —Publishers Weekly

DAY 4 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: POP THE CLUTCH: THRILLING TALES OF ROCKABILLY, MONSTERS, AND HOT ROD HORROR

I’ll be posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the table of contents for the latest anthology that I’ve created: Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror, to be published by Dark Moon Books in January 14, 2019!

DAY 4 of 18: Gary Phillips

1. Seanan McGuire presents “The Golden Girls of Fall”
2. Weston Ochse presents “Sea Lords of the Columbia”
3. Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale present “Tremble”
4. Gary Phillips presents “The Demon of the Track”

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EXCERPT:

      . . . Coles shook his head and finished his beer. Nearby was a mound of junk and, walking toward it, he tossed his can onto the pile. Turning, he encountered the woman in black.
      “You are a skilled man,” she said. Her accent was heavy but her words were clear. Like they were being tattooed on his spine.
      “Maybe it’s equal parts stupid sometimes,” he countered, careful not to get lost in those depthless eyes of hers. “But winning is good for business.”
      “How so?”
      “I build custom engines and cars so word gets around when you come in first.”
      “And coming in first matters to you?”
      “Better than getting kicked in the teeth.”
      “Yes, I suppose that is so.”
      He made a sound. “I wasn’t being that serious.”
      “I see.”
      “You’re new around these parts.”
      “I’m Ymar, Ymar Montez.” She put out her hand. There was a large jade-and-stone ring on her finger.
      They shook hands. “Good to meet you.”
      “The pleasure’s all mine, Deacon Coles.”
      Those eyes . . .

—“The Demon of the Track” by Gary Phillips

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ABOUT: GARY PHILLIPS

Son of a mechanic and a librarian, weaned on the images of Kirby and Kane in comics and too many reruns of The Twilight Zone, GARY PHILLIPS and his pops once rebuilt a ’58 Ford Fairlane. Since then he has published various novels such as Violent Spring, the first such mystery set in post ’92 civil unrest L.A.; edited several anthologies including The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir; and published more than sixty short stories. With Christa Faust, he co-wrote a prose adaptation of the classic Batman vs. Joker graphic novel, The Killing Joke.

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PREORDER NOW FOR THIS AND 17 OTHER TALES OF THRILLING FUN AND IMAGINATION!!

Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pop-Clutch-Thrilling-Rockabilly-Monsters/dp/1949491056

Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/pop_the_clutch.html

Releasing: January 14, 2019

“A fitting tribute to the 1950s with this 18-story compendium of hot rods, rock ’n’ roll, and creature features come to life.” —Publishers Weekly

DAY 3 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: POP THE CLUTCH: THRILLING TALES OF ROCKABILLY, MONSTERS, AND HOT ROD HORROR

I’ll be posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the table of contents for the latest anthology that I’ve created: Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror, to be published by Dark Moon Books on January 14, 2019!

DAY 3 of 18: Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale

1. Seanan McGuire presents “The Golden Girls of Fall”

2. Weston Ochse presents “Sea Lords of the Columbia”
3. Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale present “Tremble”

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EXCERPT:

      . . . I remember when I first paid true attention to her. She had been there all along, hidden behind a bland misfit mask, but now she was taking on a different look, and that’s why I noticed her. I had a different look too, and it was the music that changed us, that brought us together like a magnet to steel.

      I had on my blue jeans with the big cuffs, deep enough you could have kept your lunch money in them, had on a tee-shirt with the short sleeves rolled up to show what biceps I had. In that area, I needed a little work, but listening to the radio, to that hard-driving music, had turned me bold, made me want to look like my heroes. I had my hair slicked back with enough oil to lube a bone-dry Buick transmission, duck tail lifted up in the back, not to mention some wispy sideburns.

      There Belinda was, coming down the hallway in her dark teal, half-sleeve swing dress with white fringe at the bottom and on the collar, her flame-red hair, mounded up and flared out wide, the collar fringe swishing across her sun-kissed collar bones, as she walked in men’s lace-up shoes. Instead of a purse, she had a guitar, an old, worn Martin D-45 with a leather strap . . .

—“Tremble” by Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale

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ABOUT: KASEY LANSDALE

KASEY LANSDALE, first published at the tender age of eight by Random House, is the author of several short stories and novellas from Harper Collins, Titan Books, and others. She is the editor of assorted anthology collections and in her latest publication, Terror is Our Business, Publishers Weekly noted, “Lansdale’s storytelling delightfully takes on a lighter and sharper edge.” She is best known as a country singer/songwriter whose music has been placed on various television and film networks.


ABOUT: JOE R. LANSDALE

JOE R. LANSDALE is the author of forty-five novels and four hundred shorter works, including stories, essays, reviews, introductions, and magazine articles. His work has been made into films, Bubba Ho-Tep, Cold in July, as well as the acclaimed TV show, Hap and Leonard. He has also had works adapted to Masters of Horror on Showtime, and wrote scripts for Batman: The Animated Series, and Superman: The Animated Series. He scripted a special Jonah Hex animated short, as well as the animated Batman film, Son of Batman.

He has received numerous recognitions for his work. Among them The Edgar, for his crime novel The Bottoms, The Spur, for his historical western Paradise Sky, as well as ten Bram Stoker Awards for his horror work, and has also received the Grandmaster Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. He has been recognized for his contributions to comics and is a member of the Texas Institute of Literature, the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and is Writer in Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University.

He is in the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame, as well as the U.S. Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and is the founder of the Shen Chuan martial arts system.

His books and stories appear in twenty-five languages.

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PREORDER NOW FOR THIS AND 17 OTHER TALES OF THRILLING FUN AND IMAGINATION!!

Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pop-Clutch-Thrilling-Rockabilly-Monsters/dp/1949491056

Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/pop_the_clutch.html

Releasing: January 14, 2019

“A fitting tribute to the 1950s with this 18-story compendium of hot rods, rock ’n’ roll, and creature features come to life.” —Publishers Weekly