We need more fiction.
We need more beguiling villains worthy of the conflicted hero’s pursuit.
Their smokey rooms have to be soaked in familiar imagery, while swift subversions of any genre’s expectations make their entrances and turn over their tables. The roads they’re on have to twist and turn their mission so they lose sight of the incitement far behind them.
We need Hollow Grim, noir sleuth manhunter rifleman, and Eric Verrity, misunderstood superhuman crime fighter, among a small series of revolving main characters.
Welcome to the Potboiler. Pulpy paperback genre fiction with some fresh paint.
Good, fun reading for your ears.
Find out more at on my website: https://patrickhughes.ca/
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We need more fiction.
We need more beguiling villains worthy of the conflicted hero’s pursuit.
Their smokey rooms have to be soaked in familiar imagery, while swift subversions of any genre’s expectations make their entrances and turn over their tables. The roads they’re on have to twist and turn their mission so they lose sight of the incitement far behind them.
We need Hollow Grim, noir sleuth manhunter rifleman, and Eric Verrity, misunderstood superhuman crime fighter, among a small series of revolving main characters.
Welcome to the Potboiler. Pulpy paperback genre fiction with some fresh paint.
Good, fun reading for your ears.
Find out more at on my website: https://patrickhughes.ca/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, Part One.
Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.
Let’s do the intro.
Over the path of Hollow Grim’s life, following his legendary lawman father around their small Nevada town, in his early days as a military marksman for hire, and in the dying days of the nineteenth century, an antagonist with influence conducts the instruments that make life hard for his innocent community over and over.
The musician has a name: Werner Worthington III. Those who know him best call him Worm. He always stands far enough from the fray to avoid implication, but close enough to smile at his victims. No one is permitted to cal him Worm anymore. Nevada has been made to regret that ridicule.
After decades of crime too organized to put a hook into, a warrant is finally issued for the only man Hollow Grim has truly wanted to see dead.
He knows he won’t be the only killer on his trail. He knows the line between his rifle and Worthington will be anything but a straight line.
There’s no way this ends clean.
The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.
Enjoy
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