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THE ROMANCE OF CHUMPY WALNUT
In an alternate neon-lit Space Age dreamworld of rocket-shaped cars, burlesque clubs, and tiki bars, the diminutive Chumpy Walnut and his mysteriously super-sized bride Cupey Honeysuckle must face various forces of evil attempting to destroy their love and right to co-exist in peace. Mobsters, man-made monsters, a mad scientist, an exploitation movie mogul, and a brain-sucking serial killer are among their many adversaries. Meantime they are aided by private eye Vic Valentine, former hobos Goosey Maloy and Jinx Hoolihan, nightclub comic Deadpan Dan, lounge lizard Will the Thrill and his wife Monica, Tiki Goddess, as well as glamorous movie stars, swingin’ crooners, and beautiful pinup-queens. This long-delayed follow-up to the much more innocent retro-fable Chumpy Walnut is an adult pulp fairy tale, a wildly different literary cocktail of erotic, exotic, existential horror-sci-fi noir mixed well and served on the rocks, with many twists.
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GRAFFITI IN THE RUBBER ROOM: WRITING FOR MY SANITY
A Memoir
The Lynchian life and so-called career of existential pulp fiction author and B movie impresario Will "the Thrill" Viharo, as told in an epistolary mosaic.
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ALL SOULS ARE FINAL
A long-buried memory resurfaces in retired private eye Vic Valentine’s tormented psyche, forcing him to reckon with a pivotal event in his past while recovering from a psychotic break in his present. Most of the action revolves around his erotic, erratic experiences with a secret satanic pornography cult in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Los Angeles, as he is seduced into a decadent den of delirious danger by a sexy client whose mysterious boyfriend Vic accidentally killed. Or did he? Discover the shocking truth in a sordid series of twists and turns down this rocky road to raunchy ruin. PLUS! Bonus short PANTY-STUFFED SNAKESKIN SHOE, wherein Vic accompanies his wife to Boston, desperately seeking out vegan hot dogs at Fenway Park, only to discover his entire life may have just been one long fever dream—in someone else’s head…
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VIC VALENTINE FEVER DREAMS
Ex-private eye/dog walker/daydreamer Vic Valentine finds himself in the midst of a global pandemic, lost and alone except for the phantoms from his past who haunt him amid an apocalyptic kaleidoscope of memories, fantasies, and delusions. His quest for the Truth behind his existential predicament propel him, and his imaginary audience, onward through this erotic, cosmic odyssey probing the very meaning and value of consciousness itself.
Initially published in weekly serialized vignettes on author JJ Sinisi’s noir website and Instagram account This Desperate City, VIC VALENTINE FEVER DREAMS collects them all into one surrealistic, seamless narrative arc of interconnected mood pieces.
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VIHORROR! Cocktales of Sex and Death
SEX AND DEATH. The visceral impact of these simple words never fails to elicit a strong response in all peoples across every society and culture. Together these inevitable experiences constitute the core of the human condition, the essence of our shared existence, and yet they create conflict, chaos and confusion amongst us. The inherent fear and ignorance of our own corporeal realities results in religious oppression, tribalistic warfare, political scandal, corporate exploitation, and artistic censorship. Not here. These titillating tales of erotic, existential terror are cinematic fever dreams in literary form, individually and collectively conveying the delirious desire that overwhelms our senses and the deep dread that undermines our spirits when confronted with the seemingly contradictory but essentially complementary twin fates of mating and mortality. There is only one entrance and one exit in this brief, beautiful, horrific cycle of precious, ephemeral Flesh. Welcome to the uniquely stylized, conceptually uncompromising world of VIHORROR!
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VIC VALENTINE, PRIVATE EYE
Lounge lizard. International man of misery. Space cadet. Dog walker. Lover. Loner. Fighter. Fool. Vic Valentine has been all of these things and more, and less—much less. These fourteen torrid tales of forbidden love, shameless lust, surrealistic horror, existential mystery, pointless mayhem, and just plain stupidity spanning Vic’s entire pathetic life collectively illuminate the darkest corners of the human condition, without revealing a single god damn truth, other than we’re all lonely globs of ephemeral flesh wandering aimlessly around a big ball of shit hanging by a thread in a vast, apathetic void. Welcome to the hypnotic, erotic, neurotic world of Vic Valentine, Private Eye.
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VIC VALENTINE: SPACE CADET
Vic Valentine is lost inside the space between his ears. His lifelong slow-burning mental meltdown, sexual obsessiveness, fatal self-absorption, and epic existential angst have resulted in a complete break from conventional external reality. Now convinced his entire life is a movie, he finds himself trapped on Planet Thrillville, encountering voluptuous alien femme fatales, mutated monsters, intergalactic gangsters, his own unleashed demons, and his arch nemesis, “Will the Thrill,” the evil overlord of Vic’s own alternative internal universe.
Not exactly noir. Not exactly horror. Not exactly science fiction. Not even a story, really. This is a psychotic, psychotronic journey you experience, not merely read.
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VIC VALENTINE: LOUNGE LIZARD FOR HIRE
MY VOODOO VALENTINE? Vic Valentine has finally retired from the private eye racket. And since his beautiful new bi-sexual, black-belt burlesque-dancer bride, Ava Margarita Valentina Valdez Valentine, who may also be a witch or a vampire or both, has a mysterious and possibly nefarious source of seemingly endless wealth, he no longer walks dogs for income, either. Vic is finally living the life of his wildest dreams! Until the Universe sucker-punches him yet again, and it suddenly melts into a noir nightmare…
First a Yakuza hitman from Mrs. Valentine’s past shows up in Seattle with a score to settle. She conures demons from another dimension to not only protect them, but spice up their sex life, too (or hers, anyway). The ghost of Vic’s dead friend Doc Schlock still haunts him, literally. His old pal Ivar the sailor statue starts talking, and walking. And then there’s that doppelgänger of a young Vic suddenly popping up here and there around town, setting Vic up for a showdown with his younger self.
But no matter what happens next, the show must go on.
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VIC VALENTINE, INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MISERY
Vic Valentine, Private Eye is back in business – as a dog walker. A really bad one. While drunk in a dive bar one rainy Seattle night, one of his canine clients tied up outside goes missing. The trail leads him from Vancouver to Minneapolis to Houston and then all the way down to Costa Rica, where he encounters nefarious businessmen, dangerous drug dealers, tropical cocktails, flesh-eating zombies, and a luscious Latina bombshell named Esmeralda Valdez that may or may not be trying to kill him. Or she may just turn out to be the long lost love of his life. Join Vic in his frantic search for the missing pooch, exotic sexual escapades, voluptuous voodoo vengeance, and a quest for the meaning of Life in a dog-eat-dog world.
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THINGS I DO WHEN I'M AWAKE
Things I Do When I'm Awake is erotic horror noir distilled into a surrealistic mood piece, a series of confessional prose poems that are psychologically complex, sensually stimulating, and emotionally challenging, collectively conveying a seductive nightmare that will haunt your dreams forever.
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The new Vic Valentine novel HARD-BOILED HEART!
Older but hardly wiser, Vic Valentine is in hot water again as he becomes embroiled with a movie star named “Charlie” planning to make a film about the anachronistic private eye's tumultuous life. Trouble is, the alcoholic actor is also a serial murder suspect, complicating both Charlie's career and Vic's dreams of redemption and success. Meantime, Vic becomes erotically entangled with Raven, a voluptuous but vicious burlesque dancer, and is driven to despair by a seemingly supernatural stalker in the form of a mysterious sailor statue named “Ivar.” Follow Vic through the mean, green streets of Seattle as he copes with middle-aged melancholia while confronting demons from his past that threaten the guardian angels of his future.
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THE THRILLVILLE PULP FICTION COLLECTION, Volume One:
A MERMAID DROWNS IN THE MIDNIGHT LOUNGE
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FREAKS THAT CARRY YOUR LUGGAGE UP TO THE ROOM!
The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of “double features” reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions. Volume One: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge and Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room is the literary equivalent of a classic “grindhouse” bill: twin erotic fever dreams exploding with malevolent monsters, sexy sirens, gruesome gangsters, zeitgeist zombies, dreamy decadence, hipster hedonism, voluptuous violence, nightmarish nihilism, sensuous surrealism, pop culture potpourri, and much, much more. They are like nothing you've ever experienced.
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THE THRILLVILLE PULP FICTION COLLECTION Volume Two: LAVENDER BLONDE and DOWN A DARK ALLEY!
The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of “double features” reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions. Volume Two: Lavender Blonde (a novel in dialogue) and Down a Dark Alley present a dual dose of extremely graphic, uniquely compelling noir, loaded with more sordid sex and vicious violence than any fifty exploitation films, but also equipped with a stylistic complexity, emotional resonance and psychological depth absent from routine pulp fare.
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THE THRILLVILLE PULP FICTION COLLECTION, Volume Three: CHUMPY WALNUT AND OTHER STORIES!
The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of “double features” reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions. Volume Three: Chumpy Walnut and Selected Short Stories provides a revealing, entertaining look at the author's seminal works while creatively chronicling his artistic evolution, his very first novel being a unique, charming, nostalgic fable suitable for all ages, the remaining assortment of tales wildly ranging in tone and content from bleak to bizarre, from whimsical to wanton, but always stubbornly original.
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THE VIC VALENTINE CLASSIC CASE FILES
The Vic Valentine Classic Case Files collects for the first time in a single definitive omnibus the four novels between Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me and Hard-boiled Heart: Fate Is My Pimp, Romance Takes a Rain Check, I Lost My Heart in Hollywood, and Diary of a Dick, plus a new short story, “Brain Mistrust.” From an Elvis-themed sex cult involving a missing Mob brat, to a sordid rendezvous with a homicidal high school sweetheart, to a real live B movie road trip, to a series of lusty liaisons with the wild women of the detective's promiscuous past, there are no experiences or encounters like these anywhere in genre fiction, all related to the reader in our hapless hero's intrepid, introspective, shamelessly self-centered voice. Welcome to the wild, wondrous, wacky and woeful world of Vic Valentine, Private Eye.
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LOVE STORIES ARE TOO VIOLENT FOR ME
Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me is the steamy, seamy saga of a San Francisco private eye named Vic Valentine, bravely facing the fin de siècle with his heart still rooted firmly in a fatally romanticized past and his head stuck someplace even darker. A client has hired him to find a mysterious, promiscuous femme fatale who turns out to be his own long lost love, leading him down a twisting trail of decadence, danger, and deception. This is ironic, iconic pulp served hot 'n' fast, straight out of the emotionally gory grindhouse called Life.
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THE SPACE NEEDLER'S INTERGALACTIC BAR GUIDE (with Scott Fulks)
The Space Needler's Intergalactic Bar Guide smoothly mixes a wide variety of choice ingredients including retro-futurism, vintage pulp, Space Age culture, midcentury modernism, speculative sci-fi, real rocket science, cosmic consciousness, amorous aliens, universal social issues, and both original and classic cocktail recipes into a soul-shaking, brain-quaking literary blend that will challenge the very nature of existence and forever alter all previous perceptions of reality!BUY:
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IT CAME FROM HANGAR 18 (with Scott Fulks)
It Came From Hanger 18 is the most action-packed, erotic science fiction epic since The Bible - but with even more sex and violence! IT mixes hardcore sex with hard science, conspiracy theories with conspicuous satire, mythological monsters with mutated mobsters, flesh-eating feminists with voyeuristic vampires, and creates a potent literary Tiki cocktail pulsating with pulp, planets, pulchritude, politics, and a plethora of other "p" words. This is essential end-of-the-world desert-island flashlight-under-the-covers reading, the ultimate B movie in literary form, and the most tantalizing textbook in the annals of anarchic academia.
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A MERMAID DROWNS IN THE MIDNIGHT LOUNGE
A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge is a lushly lurid, exotically exploitative, sensationally sensual pulp-noir potpourri where star-crossed lovers, sea sirens, monster men, gangsters, porno filmmakers, jazz standards, and an Elvis-spawned zombie apocalypse all intermingle across several parallel dimensions in time and space. This story is unlike anything you've ever read.
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FREAKS THAT CARRY YOUR LUGGAGE UP TO THE ROOM
Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room is an unrelenting assault of sex and horror, a sensory overload that will blow your mind, all set within the claustrophobic confines of a mysteriously malevolent hotel, frequented by men and monsters alike; a nightmarish nexus of carnal carnage, with flesh-eating Mexican vampires, alien spies, mad scientists, deviant dwarves, horny zombies, teenage werewolves, Elvis impersonators, hit men, hustlers, clairvoyant cats and other random rebels and rejects feverishly fornicating and ferociously feasting beneath the repressive radar of polite society. This is Extreme Erotic Horror Noir, with a dash of satire and a twist of irony, not for the squeamish, but for anyone who wallows shamelessly in the corporeal illusion called Life.
CHUMPY WALNUT
Chumpy Walnut is a nostalgic fable about a guy only a foot tall - lost, alone and looking for love and friendship in a wacky, wondrous world of hobos, gangsters, gamblers, gun molls, showgirls, and other colorful characters. It is a story anyone who has ever felt small can relate to.
LAVENDER BLONDE
Lavender Blonde is a psycho-sexual portrait of erotic obsession, conveyed in soul-searching conversations between an itinerant jazz musician, raised in a brothel, and a savvy, sexy social worker, exploring and exposing themes and tales of loneliness and lust as the mysteries behind the madness are slowly revealed.
DOWN A DARK ALLEY
Down A Dark Alley is a torrid tale exploding with raw romance, savage sex, voluptuous violence, mirthful mayhem and delirious decadence as a sorry sap takes a breathless cross-country walk on the wild side with a ferocious femme fatale, desperately trying to escape a chaotic past and facing an uncertain future. This is hard-boiled but heartfelt neo-pulp fiction for fearless dreamers.
FATE IS MY PIMP
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Fate Is My Pimp picks up the torrid trail of Vic Valentine, Private Eye as he traverses the mean streets of San Francisco and beyond in search of a mobster's missing teenage daughter, encountering various voluptuous vixens, a female surf band, and a stalker leaving him mysterious musical messages, all while infiltrating an Elvis-theme commune for runaways, led by a deviously decadent Deacon Rivers. Follow the further misadventures of the misguided hero of Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me as he continues looking for love in all the wrong places, and unfortunately for him - finding it.
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Romance Takes A Rain Check finds Vic back on the East Coast, tracking down a lead on his cop father's killer, visiting his mother in an asylum, and reuniting with his high school sweetheart, Dolly Duncan, now married to a doper dentist. Nothing is what it seems, times and people have changed, and Vic is going to learn the hard way - again - that some bones, and boners, are best left buried.
I LOST MY HEART IN HOLLYWOOD
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I Lost My Heart in Hollywood chronicles the strangest case yet in the so-called career of Vic Valentine, Private Eye, as an unlikely tryst with the B movie scream queen of his dreams, Velma Vale, leads him down a dark, twisted path of paranoia, voyeurism, degradation and death. The bizarre action heats up even as his burning loneliness and simmering sexual obsessions flare at the forefront of his tormented consciousness, with caution and common sense cooling idly on the backburner.Plus!
Diary of a Dick tells further tantalizing tales of Vic chasing tail while allegedly on the trail of True Love, all the way to New Orleans and back again, as the femme fatales of his past and present suddenly converge with prurient promises of promiscuity. As always, strings are attached to these erotic escapades, but the ties that bind begin rapidly unraveling, and Vic is left hanging by a thread like a doomed puppet. The mysteries of love have never been more elusive.