The justice system in the city of Sachter is broken. Teenage punks with big guns, small minds and no ambition roam about the darkest neighborhoods in search of prey. They fuel their anger with codeine-soaked joints and cheap liquor and finance their habits through theft, extortion, arson, and murder. Enter Romeo Soal, a loner who…
James Ward Kirk Fiction Presents Indiana Crime 2012 When I eased my black ’65 Lincoln Continental up to the curb outside James Ward Kirk’s House of Horrors I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I mean, this was the man behind the Indiana Horror and Indiana Science Fiction anthologies, with a pretty solid reputation for…
James Ward Kirk Fiction News Christine Sutton, William Cook, Paula D. Ashe, and Murphy Edwards will each be contributing a novella for a collection titled Four Ghosts to be published by JWKFiction later this summer. The premise for each novella is a ghost story about redemption. The character has done something bad, really bad, but not necessarily murder. How the ghosts accomplish their…
AUTHOR MURPHY EDWARDS Hello, Murphy. You’re well known for writing both hard-edged crime and intense horror. Do you prefer one over the other? I actually quite like them both. Each has its own dark elements and I’m not above combining the two genres liberally when it’s called for. After all, some of the biggest horrors…
