Airship 27 presents MORE NEW MYSTERY MEN (& Women) Volume IV

Airship 27 Productions thrilled to announce the release of our latest volume of Mystery Men (& Women) Volume # 4.  As in previous editions, the volume offers up another quartet of new, original pulp heroes by today’s finest pulp writers.

Ron Fortier, Managing Editor of Airship 27 Productions reminds fans of the series’ beginnings. “After a few years of publishing new adventures of the classic pulp heroes from the 30s and 40s, many of our writers started asking if they could offer up tales of their own, new creations. We thought it was a great idea and a natural evolution of what we were doing.”

In this new volume, you’ll find “A Waltz in Scarlet.” From the pages of the Shadow Legion, comes the Ferryman; a blind man who sees through the eyes of ghosts. Created by Thomas Deja. “Cult of the Stranger.” The popular Eel and Adder, aided by another mystery man ally, must take on a gang of modern Thuggees lose in the city. Created by Joel Jenkins. “The Cult of Kali Kill,” is another rousing adventure starring Chicago’s most unique avenger, the bumbling hero the Bagman as invented by B.C. Bell. And rounding out the book is “The Grey Mantis Strike,” wherein a masked martial artist races the clock to save a group of kidnapped children. Created by C. William Russette.

“We couldn’t be any happier with this volume’s action packed stories,” says Fortier. “Then add interiors by Rob Davis and a beautiful evocative cover of the Ferryman by Zacharay Brunner, and we think Mystery Men (& Women) Vol 4 is sure to delight our loyal readers.”

Four thrill-a-minute tales of suspense, mystery and action that keep the true spirit of the classic pulps alive!!

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available now in paperback from Amazon and soon on Kindle.

(https://www.amazon.com/dp/194618313X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492002166&sr=1-4&keywords=mystery+men+%26+women+airship+27)

THE BAGMAN RETURNS

Airship 27 Productions is damn happy to announce the release of writer B. Chris Bell’s newest collection of Bagman stories. Sure to be welcome news to all our Chicago based pulp fans as that is the character’s home base in the 30s.

A new gang boss is taking over the meat-packing district of Chicago and his tools are murder and intimidation. He calls himself the Butcher and the trail of death and destruction he leaves in his wake is a testament to that moniker. Now it will take all of the Bagman’s skills and know-how to unmask this savage foe and save the streets of the Windy City from a new and bloody gang war.

Writer B. Chris Bell unleashes a trio of brand new adventures featuring his sarcastic 1930’s hero who wears a burlap sack over his head and fights for his neighborhood streets. Added to this volume’s roster is a mystery involving the kidnapping of newsboys and in a third story, Bagman’s trusted ally and driver, Crankshaft, is featured in a solo short.

Canadian artist Art Cooper, joins Airship 27 Productions for the first time with his wonderful black and white illustrations. Cooper has a Jack Kirby style of drawing that is perfectly suited to the pulps. Art Director Rob Davis provides the cover logo and composition with final art painting by New Zealand’s own Shane Evans giving the book a truly international creative team.

Here is pulp action in a truly unique style starring one of the most original new pulp stars ever put to paper, the Bagman!

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!

Available now from Amazon.com

The Obligatory "Promote Your Book" Post

Marian Allen

In order to work off-world, you have to have your connection to the 'net severed. But what if you still hear voices in your head? In an alternate history, three young friends and their mechanical dog rent an airship for a jolly holiday. Then sky pirates happen. These stories and poems, most collected from various venues and one brand new, imagine alternate Earth, future Earth, Earthlings in space and on other planets, and people of other planets. Science fiction. It's not just ray-guns anymore.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012HN603I

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Terry Smiles



 

 “[A] blend of fantasy and political thriller … an adventurous twist of genre, much recommended.” ~Midwest Book Review

The Rothston Institute is home to a special class of adepts who can control the decisions of anyone in the world. But college student Kinzie Nicolosi is just discovering her own dangerous powers — and her role in the battle for humanity’s future.

The final installment of The Rothston Series to be released Feburary 29, 2016.

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Ralph L. Angelo, Jr.



1937, the world on the brink of war. But in the city of Riverburgh, NY forty miles north of Manhattan there was a different kind of war brewing; it was a war of survival for the common man. A war against the gangsters and thugs who ruled the streets and against the corrupt politicians who turned a blind eye to the evil that ran rampant in Riverburgh.
In a city where everyone had given up hope and cried to the heavens for a savior, a savior had arrived. But was he heaven sent or a monster from hell?

http://tinyurl.com/TheGrimSpectre

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Perry Constantine



The Spear of Destiny, believed to have pierced the body of Christ, is said to be an artifact of incredible power that will render the user unstoppable. And now the Thule Society, an occult order from the days of Nazi Germany, is after this weapon. Only Elisa Hill and her allies stand between this Nazi death cult and their genocidal plot! But when faced with ancient, forbidden magicks, does even the famed myth hunter have a prayer of success?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015S6OIFI?tag=percivconsta-20

 

Infernum. A shadowy, globe-spanning network of operatives run by the mysterious power broker known as Dante. They hold allegiance to no one, existing as rogues on the fringes of society. In this three-book series, meet some of Infernum’s top agents: Angela Lockhart, a spy on a mission of vengeance; Carl Flint, a retired assassin looking for peace; and Dalton Moore, a professional thief drawn into a dangerous game!

Contains The Following Books

Book 1: Love & Bullets
Book 2: Outlaw Blues
Book 3: Gentleman Rogue

99¢ COUNTDOWN DEAL BEGINNING JANUARY 30TH

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017YI55K0?tag=percivconsta-20

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Bill Craig



When Vern Brisbane is murdered after docking his shrimp boat, the Key West Police think it was a random killing. But Brisbane’s daughter Lilly disagrees. She hires Rick Marlow to look into the shrimper’s death and what he finds is a smuggling operation that is using shrimp boats to smuggle in both drugs and people. Not knowing who he can trust, Marlow must navigate the Dark Waters to get the man behind it all.

http://www.amazon.com/Marlow-Dark-Waters-West-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B019S5X2XE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1451150400&sr=8-2&keywords=marlow+dark+waters
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Mark Bousquet



In the tradition of NBC’s THE BLACKLIST and BLINDSPOT, Space Buggy Press is proud to present AMERICAN HERCULES, a modern re-imagining of the strongman’s classic Labors!

Decorated war hero Nathan Hercules awakes to find blood on his body, a knife in his hands, his wife and children dead at his feet, and no memory of committing the crime.

Six years later, the lawyer who put him away comes to Nathan with an offer to help him track down the truth. All Landon Eurystheus wants in return is Nathan’s help in finding the one man in the world Nathan cares least about: Washington Zeus, the world’s richest missing person and Hercules’ biological father.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Hercules-Nemea-Crime-Serial-ebook/dp/B017MRUOBI

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Lucy Blue



“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth.” In An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 14 authors of horror and mystery have come together to create a unique anthology that sets Holmes on some of his most terrifying adventures. A pair of sisters willing to sacrifice young girls to an ancient demon for a taste of success, a sinister device that can manipulate time itself, and a madman that can raise corpses from the dead are just a few among the grisly tales that can be found within these pages. Curl up with a warm cuppa and leave all the lights on. This is not your grandfather’s Sherlock Holmes.

http://www.amazon.com/Improbable-Truth-Paranormal-Adventures-Sherlock/dp/0984004262/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454702036&sr=8-1&keywords=paranormal+adventures+of+sherlock

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Stephanie Osborn



"I have always loved Sherlock Holmes stories. As a teen, I read The Hound of the Baskervilles and was immediately hooked. As an adult, I continue to read or watch stories featuring Holmes, whether from the eyes of Mary Russell (Laurie R. King) or those of the modern day Sherlock in Stephanie Osborn’s The Displaced Detective series. To date, I have been particularly enamored with the contemporary BBC series featuring Sherlock Holmes, and anticipate each new episode’s release.But now I have a new favorite --The Gentleman Aegis series, starting with book 1: Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy’s Curse...It’s almost like going full circle, because this book is written in a style unique to the Victorian era, not unlike that first Sherlock book I read as a youth. Aside from a riveting good tale, replete with a wonderful mystery steeped in ancient cultures and vibrant personalities, this book stands out from the usual offerings in contemporary fiction...Bravo, Ms. Osborn, and thank you for a beautifully rendered book." ~Aaron Paul Lazar, Murder By 4

http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Mummys-Curse-Gentleman/dp/1518883125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454702078&sr=8-1&keywords=Sherlock+holmes+mummy%27s+curse

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Mark Halegua



Well, I have a story in the new Super Swingin Heroes 1968. Mine't titled "Automaton Investigations, Inc."

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Swingin-Hero-1968-Special-ebook/dp/B019M54B8A/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1454702119&sr=8-2-fkmr2&keywords=super+swinging+1968

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James Bojaciuk



You can tell a lot about a dragon by their hoard. Not the shiny one, the other one. The one where they keep their favorite things. The Dragon Lord himself has a library. A library that devours halls and caves, filling them with every kind of book and codex and scroll. These are the stories that fill his favorite shelf.

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Lords-Library-1/dp/0692618988/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1454702149&sr=1-1&keywords=from+the+dragon+lord%27s+library

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Tamara Lowery



Viktor Brandewyne finds himself tasked with finding the most flighty of the Sisters of Power. He tracks her from New England to the ends of the earth. She sets him the task of retrieving three things as the price for a portion of her magic: a dragon’s egg, a dodo’s egg, and a drop of blood from the Daughter of the Dragon, one of the few beings capable of killing him.

http://www.amazon.com/Hells-Dodo-Waves-Darkness-Book-ebook/dp/B0196ZQO90/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454702220&sr=8-1&keywords=hell%27s+dodo

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Michael Woods

I didn't write this but I did edit and format the tale.



Fool's Gold
By S.E. Lehenbauer

Can you hear it?

Regina Sol is just trying to escape her dark memories and make a new life aboard the spacecraft Tzigane. When a strange illness infects the entire crew, Regina finds herself quarantined with the reclusive captain, Imrah: an alien woman searching for a god-like beast from her home world.

Nothing will stop Imrah from chasing her fairy tale. Heedless of the sick crew and the asteroid field that could tear the ship to bits, Imrah’s pride could doom them all. With her new family’s life on the line, can Regina stop the hunt for fool’s gold before it’s too late?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015VGTZ8U

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B. Chris Bell



Save a few bucks for TALES OF THE BAGMAN VOL. 3, THE BUTCHER BACK O' THE YARDS! (Soon to be released) “Be there, or miss out on the invention of the greatest new American pulp imagination at work in decades!!!!” --Keith Allan Deutsch, Publisher Black Mask Magazine

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Bagman-Three-B-C-Bell/dp/0692636307/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1454702250&sr=8-3&keywords=tales+of+the+bagman

The Grandchildren of Pulp (Or, How I Learned That Pulp Never Really Died) -- part 2

Last week, we talked with Bill Cunningham about the legacy of pulp. This week we're honored to revisit the topic, only with another pulp creator, B. Chris Bell.

What happened to the heroes of the pulp era as the 30s became the 40s and 50s, and how did they change?

Bell: A lot of them faded out. The popularity of Science Fiction made many heroes more science oriented. More of them got interested in the opposite sex (think Captain Zero). I think eventually Doc Savage became James Bond. 

How did this change reflect the changing times and what readers were looking for from popular stories?

Bell: After the war a lot of men came home and the old pulp excitement didn’t seem so real. So we got writers like Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Charles Willeford. Protagonists were far from heroes, and home was no longer a safe place. Paperbacks whose covers promised more sex than ever before while rarely living up to it became the norm. And then came Spillane. As genre markets moved to paperbacks the appeal was to be an “adult.”

At which point do you feel pulp shifted toward the more gritty and bleak version called noir? What triggered that?

Bell: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and one of America’s most conformist eras. A lot of these guys were veterans who had become counter culture, and then, later on, the baby boomers began to explore new areas of expression. Remember, by the late forties we already had beatniks.

Between the heyday of noir and the birth of new pulp, what was going on in the publishing world that still carried on the tradition of the classic pulp story? Were they simply dead and gone, or was some other type of fiction keeping the "faith" alive?

Bell: Many of the adventure heroes went into paperback series ala Nick Carter or the Destroyer. Detective fiction had series like Mike Hammer and Ross McDonald’s Lew Ayres. The format changed, some heroes went to the movies and comic books, new ones appeared in the paperbacks.

Finally, what are the proofs in popular fiction today that pulp style and tone is here to stay, no matter what the marketers call it?

Bell: The greatest proof is that so many of those old heroes are still around and still loved. People will always enjoy reading exciting adventures of people triumphing over impossible odds. A good yarn is a good yarn.

For more info about Chris and his work, visit http://chicagobagman.blogspot.com/

B.C. Bell Terrifies with "How Pappy Got Five Acres Back..."

 

http://talestoterrify.com

This week pulp writer B.C. Bell ("Tales of the Bagman," etc.) has a story, "How Pappy Got Five Acres Back..."  "Pappy..." is narrated by s.f. author, Nathan Lowell.  "Tales to Terrify" is a magazine-formated sister podcast to the Hugo Award-winning StarShipSofa.  I hope you'll stop by and have a listen to Chris's story.