Pulp Poem of the Week

Innocence is killing
For profit.

Guilt is killing
For pleasure.

          David Rachels
          Verse Noir
          2010

Pulp Poem of the Week

People who think
That yelling and screaming
Are the same thing

Have never screamed.

          David Rachels
          Verse Noir
          2010

Contents: Gil Brewer, Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories (2012)

Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories (ORDER NOW!) collects the best stories from Gil Brewer’s glory decade of the 1950s:

With This Gun— (Detective Tales, March 1951)

It’s Always Too Late (Detective Fiction, April 1951)

Moonshine (Manhunt, March 1955)

My Lady Is a Tramp (Pursuit, May 1955)

Red Twilight (Hunted, October 1955)

Don’t Do That (Hunted, December 1955)

Die, Darling, Die (Justice, January 1956)

The Black Suitcase (Hunted, February 1956)

Shot (Manhunt, February 1956)

The Gesture (The Saint Detective Magazine, March 1956)

Home (Accused, March 1956)

Home-Again Blues (Pursuit, March 1956)

Mow the Green Grass (Pursuit, March 1956)

Come Across (Manhunt, April 1956)

Cut Bait (Pursuit, May 1956)

Matinee (Manhunt, October 1956)

The Axe Is Ready (Trapped, December 1956)

On a Sunday Afternoon (Manhunt, January 1957)

Prowler! (Manhunt, May 1957)

Bothered (Manhunt, July 1957)

Smelling Like a Rose (Mr., July 1957)

Death of a Prowler (Trapped, April 1958)

Getaway Money (Guilty, November 1958)

Redheads Die Quickly (Mystery Tales, April 1959)

Harlot House (Mystery Tales, August 1959)

25 stories in all!

Entire Cover: Gil Brewer, Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories (2012)

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Pulp Poem of the Week

I had no idea

How much brains

He had

Until

I saw them.

David Rachels

Verse Noir

2010

Book Review: David Rachels, Verse Noir (2010)

Follow this link for a nice write-up of Verse Noir at Spinetingler.

Pulp Poem of the Week

If you put
One million monkeys
In a room with
One million typewriters
Sooner than you think
The monkeys will use
Those typewriters to
Kill each other.

David Rachels
Verse Noir
2010

Now Available at Amazon.com!

Two books now available from Amazon.com that that everyone should buy: Gil Brewer's The Red Scarf, which many consider to be his best novel, and some other guy's Verse Noir. Click on their titles to go to their Amazon pages.

Semi-Shameless Self-Promotion: David Rachels, Verse Noir (2010)

This allows you to sample a few of the poems in my collection, Verse Noir. It's much easier to read if you click on the full-screen icon.