Heath Lowrance

My story "Emancipation, With Teeth" is in the brand new issue of Necrotic Tissue, just out. I'd be surprised if you can find i...

The last ten or fifteen years have seen a real resurgence of talent in the noir world. I wouldn’t want to speculate on the social or politi...

--Into the Modern-- Hardboiled/Noir never really went away. Although the Golden era ended in the early ‘60’s, there were still plenty o...

--Espionage Noir-- Novels of espionage aren’t always of the James Bond variety. In the post-war years and throughout the Cold War, sev...

Noir was a boy’s club, for the most part. There may as well have been a sign on the door saying No Girls Allowed. But a small handful of bri...

A whole slew of private detective heroes emerged in the wake of the Mickey Spillane phenomenon of the 1950’s, and even the ones who’d been a...

The late ‘30’s and the ‘40’s didn’t offer much new in the hardboiled/noir world. There were plenty of solid writers, but there wasn’t m...