You already know that we here at BluntForce we love us some Hugh Hefner and was love us some infographics. Especially infographics with naked lady silhouettes. Well the good people at OnlineSchools have put together another nice one to keep accomodating our perverse fetishes. This time we traverse across the fascinating history of Playboy founderRead More
“Turn off the T.V. and discover fiction like it used to be” For my money, one of the most exciting happenings in indie publishing is going down in England via a scorching DIY rock n’ roll operation that calls itself Pulp Press. Their books, pocket-sized blasts of hardcore mayhem meant to resurrect the dime pulpRead More
Opening paragraph: I faked a cough, put my hand over my mouth to hide the grin. I knew it wasn’t funny really, but the surprised look on Luke Jordan’s dead face caught me just right. Luke was the first dead guy I’d ever seen up close except for in a funeral home. One warning beforeRead More
Hoodtown — A Lucha-Noir Novel by Christa Faust Cover and Interior Illustrations by Rafael Navarro Opening paragraph: Name’s X. I’m a wrestler, at least I used to be. They used to call me the Ice Queen, on account of my ice-colored eyes and emotionless persona in the ring. I’m a ruda, a stone cold bitchRead More
by Jens H Altmann The year is 1954. The place is a newsstand. The object is a pulp novella: “Bastei Kriminalroman #68: Ich suchte den Gangster-Chef” (Bastei Mystery Novel #68: I Searched for the Gangster-Boss). The man is FBI agent Jeremiah “Jerry” Cotton, who fights organized crime in the New York area. The novella’s successRead More
Opening line: So I’m on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some fuckhead tries to mug me! Josh Bazell’s debut novel Beat the Reaper packs a whole lot of blood, guts and humor into one helluva page-turner. I picked it up on theRead More
Illustration by Matt Dorfman The good folk over at ChuckPalahniuk.net pointed us to a feature article on Men’s Health penned by writer Chuck Palahniuk. He lays out an interesting foundation on how to renew yourself by going through the steps that an individual might take before ending their life. Read Live Like You’re Dying here.Read More
Our “hero” Felix Soandso traverses a nightmarish acid-scape of Middle America in the town of Dreamfield, an otherwise laconic Hell-hole standing in for the worst qualities of conspicuous consumption and systemic ignorance in the good ole’ US of A. It’s difficult to call Felix a protagonist, more so just a character caught up in aRead More
by Violet Dear When I woke up on November 27/2008 in the remote Himachal Pradesh town of Chamba, I was greeted by the news that every Indian dreads: late the previous night Pakistani terrorists had attacked Mumbai, entering 11 different locations around the city armed with AK47s and grenades, killing 200 people. Once I determinedRead More
