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Great series of anthologies. Hopefully these guys Have enough tales of grit and crime to fill a few more volumes
There were a couple of stories that didn't quite do it for me, but that's the nature of an anthology. Overall, the quality of writing is great, and there's a lot of variety of voice and subject. This has started me on a pulp/crime reading tear...Looking forward to reading the other volumes.Hugely enjoyable, and a bargain in the Kindle store.
Really good collection of noir. We got all bad guys, just that dome guys are worse and nobody wins. Good, gritty writing by various authors. I liked them all.
It's Thuglit, 'nuf said. I have a story in this particular issue and PROUD of it, which means you should buy it. NOW.
THUGLIT is a noir lovers dreamTHUGLIT is a hard boiled, gritty and violent series. It is action filled and populated by thugs, losers, femme fatales and the dregs of society. Reading this series is taking a walk on the dark side that most of us never see or even know exists.
The eight stories in this issue are wide-ranging across the crime-noir spectrum. All show a high-level of craft and were good stories, but my taste runs to certain styles so wasn’t thrilled with the whole issue. Mike Wilkerson’s story “A Clean White Sun” about a cop spiraling down a whirlpool of self-destruction who rescues a kidnapped girl blew me away with its adrenalin prose and anguish and for my money is worth the price of the issue all by itself.The first story, also a favorite, is Jordan
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Contents:002- Welcome (Back) –Todd Robinson (Introduction)004 - Jordan Harper – “LUCY IN THE PIT “ 015 - Jason Duke - “BASTARDS OF APATHY” 030 - Court Merrigan - “THE GLEANER'S UNION” 039 - Hilary Davidson - “MAGPIE” 055 - Terrence P. McCauley - “LADY MADELINE'S DIVE” 072 - Matthew C. Funk - “SPILL SITE” 083 -Mike Wilkerson - “A CLEAN WHITE SUN” 100 - Johnny Shaw - “LUCK “ 114 – Todd Robinson – “THE HARD BOUNCE” Part 1 (Novel Preview)126 – Author Bios I was pleasantly surprised by this collectio...
I found Thuglit by accident and intend to go though the entire series. I don't particularly care for short stories, but dug these. Some are very good, some not so, but this is some serious hardcore stuff. Particularly compelling is Lucy in the Pit by Jordan Harper (don't let dog fighting put you off! A Clean White Sun by Mike Wilkerson (James Ellroy on acid). and Luck by Johnny Shaw. If you want to know now to screw over your man's family to keep him all to yourself then read Magpie by Hilary Da...
Love It!Well, this was nice! Sometimes you just have to take a chance and spend $2.99. Glad I did. Lots of good stories in here.You thriller lovers should give this book a try.
I read the Thuglit issues in an odd hopscotch order, from Four to Five and then back to One. Yet the quality has remained consistently high, and you can see how #1 set the tone -- right out of the gate, with Jordan Harper's entry. I greatly respected but didn't quite love his "American Death Songs," but "Lucy in the Pit" really connected emotionally for me. The editors do a really good job of assembling multi-faceted collections, with different voices and sensibilities. The fun thing in #1 that
I really enjoyed this issue. There is a nice diversity to the pieces chosen and I liked how they were arranged. Absolutely a must read.
There is a plethora of the latter day editions of Thuglit available on Kindle Unlimited and I thought it'd be worth my while to dig into them seeing as I'm enjoying the current run of lit-zines that are available.This was as enjoyable as I expected it would be and it kicks off with Jordan Harper's "Lucy in the Pit". I've already read it, but just wanted to mention it as everybody should be reading Harper's work.Jason Duke's "Bastards of Apathy" is a bloody play on the apathy on display on a dail...
Tough writing. Tough read. Too tough for my stomach. Violence for the sake of violence.
Great stuff! I found out about "Thuglit" from "Blood & Tacos" at Left Coast Crime 2014. It's my kind of literature -- tough and unyielding. Unsentimental, too, unless you consider "Lucy in the Pit," which made me almost sympathetic with fighting dog trainers. Almost.Some of them, anyway."Luck" by Johnny Shaw was a home-run: George V. Higgins meets Charlie Bukowsky. How can you not like a story in which the main characters are a couple of no-hopers named Scrote and Violence? They are a little lik...
Why haven't I discovered this series of short crime stories sooner? Better late than never. I loved every word of it. The opening tale, Lucy in the Pit is worth the mere dollar admission I paid. It sets the tone for the entire collection of gritty stories about bad people doing even worse things. Great editing and even better writing. If you like your fiction served with a heavy dose of noir then you will love Thuglit.
I'd call this mag the extreme side of the crime genre. Some of these stories, from unknown crime writers, were pretty good; others seemed to be written by beginners and were weaker. More proof that this style is very difficult to pull off.
Great first issue of this impressive series.
