Fiction, Poetry, Art
Rogue Chicken From Outer Space
A thunderous cartoon analysis of all things chicken from the brilliant Michael D. Davis. The second offering from his Seriously Deranged Cartoon Collection.
BACKWARDS
The underworld vision of the master collage artist Coates Walker compliments the bare knuckle prose of Cindy Rosmus, an authentic no holds barred Jersey mythologist. Backwards, Hekate publishing's perfect wedding of heaven and hell, defines the new genre of Bayonne Gothic.
One Handed Pianist
KJ HANNAH GREENBERG’S STUNNING ASSEMBLAGE OF POETRY AND IMAGE WILL INSPIRE READERS AND ARTISTS TO EXPAND HOW THEY COMMUNICATE.
Fiction
Howling After Midnight
Hekate Publishing’s Orphan Paper presents a collection of uncanny tales, of nature, human or otherwise, a masterful blend of the normal and paranormal. Mark Slade understands the essence of what is compelling and unnerving, twisting his reader like a blood soaked rag.
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Unweaving A Tangled Web
Private Investigator Carl Vincent, former NYPD Detective, likes working cases without the restrictions imposed by big city bureaucracy. Routine cases pay the bills, but it’s the cries for help that bring him to life. Unweaving a Tangled Web, first installment in The Case Files of Private Detective Carl Vincent is only the beginning .
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Crooked Ladder
Orphan Paper, with Hekate Publishing, is excited to present Crooked Ladder, gathered from Terry Butler's archives, representing his years of publishing dark stories online, in magazines and books. His collection of carefully crafted tales grab the chilling atmosphere of our present times.
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In the Knickerbocker Woods
Book One of Michael D. Davis' The Seriously Deranged Series, In the Knickerbocker Woods, wherein the young and brilliant cartoonist-writer hysterically illustrates a people and place.
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Fiction
Logue Jam
Logue Jam is Paul Kindlon’s exquisite initiation ceremony, with secret handshakes, chance meetings of the kindred, both on and off stage, missed cues and retraced steps. He constructs and deconstructs. The author is fascinated by how we think, by the thinkers themselves and closed societies. He introduces us to inbred royals and invites us to travel to the locations of their banishment. His players and quips are odd and captivating, his landscape tilted, not unlike the fictional town of Twin Peaks, where the comic delivers one liners to a half filled locals bar, nobody paying attention, the band’s drummer answering with snare roll and tap on the ride.
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The Bloody Whorehouse Detective Agency
The first volume of The Count Whorton Collection, brilliantly written and illustrated by Michael D. Davis, harks back to the slick days of Nick and Nora Charles, while being set in a skeevy modern world. His tales, concerning a fascinating wayward detective with his courtesan lady friend along with a host of colorful characters, remain unpredictable, and in that, Davis has reanimated the detective genre in a unique way. His cartoons are exquisite and spot on. The accompanying cartoons provide an exquisite bonus. Fans already await volume two.
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The Book of Jake
After Jake’s wife, Tess, kicks him out of the house, he’s forced to face his selfish hedonistic ways. To win her back, Jake turns to the Book of Proverbs and begins steering a course toward righteousness, maturity and redemption. Then Roger calls. It’ll take a lot more than ancient allegory to get Jake through the ensuing odyssey of brutal murder, betrayal and extortion with sadistic drug dealers, vicious Rottweilers, and a lot of generally annoying people to keep him company.The Book of Jake reads like Steve Lerner retained the combined DNA of Woody Allen and James M. Cain.
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Angel of Manslaughter
Angel of Manslaughter comprises a reissue of Cindy Rosmus’ classic collection of short stories, originally presented by Fossil Publications. This master’s gut-wrenching presentation, each a blow to the head, strips the veneer off fiction, her characters so vivid, the reader swallows hard with every description. She writes of reality with wide range while staying in the neighborhood she knows intimately: Moms and pops and best buds, their desperation, irony, sex and violence. Rosmus writes stark truth better than any today. The collection is illustrated by Coates Walker, the perfect match for this author's fiction.
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Fiction
Groaning For Burial
Kenneth James Crist's haunting tales describe a new gut wrenching America, adapted to the presence and tastes of the undead, where love, death and motorcycles still matter but make us ask a familiar question: Are the good times really over for good? His voices you recognize, the prose natural, as if a family member is telling you the story; and in that, makes what is being described all that more disturbing.
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The Third Entry
Book Two of J. Jupes' speculative horror series. The Civil Service Trilogy, follows Nelson, a veteran Operator with the Department of Housing, as he attempts to understand the nature of his job as well as the predicament in which the last structure has placed him. The entities within, this time, have created something unfamiliar and immensely disturbing. Cover design and Illustrations done by Coates Walker, the premier collagist of mechanical despair and conspiracy in our age.
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Stupidiocy
A collection of finger nail yanking Noir from the editor of Yellow Mama, Cindy Rosmus. Her tales meander in and around familiar streets and bars, passing the hometown walking dead, witches and trick or treaters, their bags loaded with razor blade filled apples. Her stories take root in that burned patch of ground where nightmare and waking life coexist, each lyrical and presented lovingly like an exquisite bouquet of dead flowers. The collection is illustrated by Coates "Keith" Walker, the premier collagist of scientific surrealism, conspiracy and modern irony. Cindy's stories and Keith images scream and moan in the same key.
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Intersection Operator
In a double header tribute to Nikolai Gogol and Samuel Morse, J. Jupes and collage artist Coates Walker compile a dystopian struggle for love and identity in a ghostly world where traffic patterns are manually controlled by the Intersection Operators and job security has become a sadistic enterprise.
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Fiction
Hairspray and Lighter
Eckerly only wanted to make a bet on a horse that day. He didn't expect Darlene Johnson to walk into the office with her chocolate box. And certainly didn't expect he'd shortly be riding a Tilt a Whirl with no mounting bolts. Hairspray and Lighter is book One of the Noir series The Detectives That Don't Fit by J. Jupes.
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Ramonst
Hidden in the Mountains of East Tennessee, eleven-year old Rodney goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. In the playground of his grandmother’s overgrown garden, he bears silent witness to the relentless cruelty of a teenage psychopath. Rodney’s story is set in a small community carved from legacies of poverty, coal mining and religion.
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The Trainee
It's 1982. Rodney Pepper, a socially inept college drop-out, heads to New Orleans to engulf himself in despair and abject misery in the belief it will lead him to Wisdom. Barely off the bus, a man claiming to be his long-lost Uncle Gambi accosts Rodney and bestows on him an unexpected pirate legacy. Mayhem and skullduggery follow him every step of the way. Can he decipher a dead man's code and find what lays hidden before he too is swallowed up by violence?
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Non-fiction
Split in Half and Buried in Moscow
Paul Kindlon's always eclectic, always insightful deconstructions of his years living and working in Russia. Ideally. this book will inform readers of what many Russians and American-Russians think and believe. If you are the type of person who has been reading the Mueller report backwards in search of “secret clues” proving Russian collusion this book is probably not for you. And just to be clear: I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of any Russian Intelligence agency.
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At The End of The Search
An agonizing story of abduction taking place during the bloody civil war in El Salvador. Told from both the perspective of the parents whose children were snatched from their homes as well as through the eyes of loved ones grappling with the news in the United States. The language is direct and heartfelt, comprising an important work of historical fiction that documents painfully familiar circumstance for Salvadoreans who lived through the tragic era.
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A Motorcycle Cop’s Motorcycle Manual
Hekate Publishing is thrilled to add A Motorcycle Cop’s Motorcycle Manual to its shelves. Ken Crist, writes so well on a subject he both knows and cares about deeply.
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The Baltimore Kid
Volume One of Tom DiVenti's illustrated cultural essays, serialized in Splice Today, and encompassing a sixty year span of music, poetry, politics and Baltimore esoterica. The author takes stock of our American Mythology in plain language and defines himself, his context and his shadow. Prolific at an age when most men are rolling over, his second wind serves us an ice cold can of Natty Boh in flickering neon, an homage to the underdog and underbelly of not only his hometown Baltimore but our entire fruited plain.
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Art
Children’s Books
Collection One
Hekate's first collection of Coates Walker's brilliant collages. The twenty first century's premier artist of science, love and subversion: "Keith," known for his incredible prolificity, juxtaposes combinations of technological images to produce singular compositions, each a cultural epiphany.
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What Really Lives in Loch Ness
Author Ken Crist and artist Jeff Iwanski team up again to tackle one of the world's greatest mysteries. With What Really Lives in Loch Ness they create a new chapter of Scottish folklore, their magical creatures certain to entertain children and adults for generations to come.
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Jariah & the Big Green Booger
Kenneth James Crist teams up with artist Jefferson Dylan Iwanski to take up where Dr. Seuss left off. Jariah and the Big Green Booger is the first of the brilliantly conceived Rhymey Old Man series, for both children and adults alike.
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Poetry
Sweet Nothings
Dan Brook offers us a remarkable haibun, the traditional interplay of prose and haiku, by way of introducing the conceptual basis of haiku. His text, Sweet Nothings, flows like water, celebrating the enso, epiphany, and the profound activities of nothingness.
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Memory of the Future
Originally reprinted by Wright's Automatic Press, Hekate Publishing presents the original epic collaboration between the magical poet Eddie du Montparnasse and the phenomena Coates Walker.
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American Maniac
Spicer’s title character leads us on a road trip in an ironic and iconic white Cadillac, traversing through the underbelly of America in this panorama of love gone wrong, sex, perversion, rock and roll, drugs, bigotry, radical politics, hypocrisy, and violence run amok. Often depicted in hues of indicting black humor, wicked satire, and twisted passion, American Maniac promises a wild and wacky roller-coaster ride across the highways of the American psyche that have become more common with each passing day.
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Poetry
Dreamt
Alex Salinas’ DREAMT, his second collection, presents dream after dream, less sleep induced than by a seer's Delphic vapor. He remains painfully awake, keeping it real on Texas farm roads, expressing compassion for people who breathe that dust; his beat, a basketball bouncing on an asphalt court. Salinas makes the game of hoops mythological, invokes dog and cat totems as well as ancient Gods to bear on the world's torn body politic.
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Waiting for the Needle Rain
A collection of seventy surreal, wildly imaginative poems that depict with black humor a world not unlike the one we inhabit today: obsessed with love and sex, conflict, violence, crime, and pre-apocalyptic meanderings. In these tender but provocative dramatic monologues, the narrator invites and almost dares the reader to travel with him through the dark amusement parks of these poems. It’s an impressionistic landscape.
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Warbles
Alex Z. Salinas’ WARBLES, a choral of struggle, of unprotection, irrational fear, serrated jaws, leaking souls, his black hole divine, rabid Chihuahua, and Eucharist in Black Spandex. Mr. Salinas smashes furious words in attempt to reconcile his role as poet, sandwiched between two cultures, kneeling at his grandmother’s grave, seeking definition in the face of all this: A contemplation of bravery.
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And So the Flies
Robert Frost famously described writing free verse to be ‘ ... like playing tennis with the net down.' D. B. Tompsett is playing tennis with his net down on the Idaho plain; he can animate a desert outhouse, give her a paramour and communicate the pathos between them. He moves in and out of reveries while speaking to us directly, in a singular American idiom, creating haunting and direct images of love and death.
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Kilimanjaro and Jenkinsberg, parts one and two of the Grady Ranger Insurance Fraud Claims Investigator Series about which Leslie Pons raves: "A chiropractic correction in a world void of authentic hard boiled cartilage!" Says Brooklyn Times critic Hans Moozelli: ". . . a spontaneous literary intracolonic methane explosion . . . as well as a luxurious gaping mouthed lyrical nap on a six penny nail bed of tight prose . . . at once a stunning undercover expose of the often overlooked untrained and uninvited individuals directing traffic at unattended intersections, equipped only with whistle, white gloves, and a dollop of panache . . .”